Aeon

Constructor theory is a new vision of physics, but it helps to answer a very old question: why is life possible at all?

Was human evolution inevitable, or do we owe our existence to a once-in-a-universe stroke of luck?

Either cause and effect are the very glue of the cosmos, or they are a naive illusion due to insufficient math. But which?

The question of what our moral obligations are to any alien life we might meet is already there. NASA scientists have stated publicly that we are likely to find life […]

The science of cosmology has achieved wonders in recent centuries. It has enlarged the world we can see and think about by ontological orders of magnitude. Cosmology wrenched the Earth […]

For centuries, altitude sickness thwarted our attempts to reach sacred heights. What mysterious force repelled us?

We can melt ice sheets and cook landscapes. When humans made fire, they made themselves and their planet too

In the dark corners of our galaxy, there are billions of rogue planets roaming around, starless — can they support life?

It is only a matter of time before our Universe goes black, cold and dies. Must this be the end of the road for life?