Walker is an astrobiologist and theoretical physicist, and is deputy director of the Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science and professor at Arizona State University, a fellow of the ...

Sara Imari Walker leads one of the largest international theory groups in origins of life and astrobiology. Walker and her ...

Former journalist Katherine Fulton is president of the Monitor Institute and co-author of Looking Out for the Future: An Orientation for Twenty-First Century Philanthropists. Richard Rockefeller (4th ...

READ Andrew Dana Hudson's companion piece to this essay, "The Weather Out There," a work of speculative fiction about communication between humans and across the stars — and what happens when that ...

The Long Now Foundation presented the North American Premiere of Brian Eno's 77 Million Paintings for 3 days at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. Friday and Saturday evening were ...

I worked in the garden this morning. Put my hands in the dirt, wanting to harvest. But I’m holding off. Ticking down the days or hours until the transmission from Alsafi arrives. When it comes, I’ll ...

Neuroscientist David Eagleman is director for the Laboratory of Perception and Action at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and author of Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives. David Eagleman may be ...

This fall Lord Rees completes his five-year term as president of The Royal Society. He continues as Britain's Astronomer Royal and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. His books include Just Six ...

Anthropologist Wade Davis is one of the world's great story tellers, with personal adventures to match. An Explorer-in-Residence at National Geographic, he specializes in hanging out with traditional ...

Jane Langdale is a Professor in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Oxford, a Senior Research Fellow at The Queen's College, Oxford, and Principal Investigator on Phase III of the C4 ...