One of the biggest, most intriguing questions in the world is quite simple: Are we alone in this universe? Astronomer and astrobiologist Dr. Aomawa Shields looks for signs of life in outer space by ...

There was no meaning to it. Yet, now there is plenty of meaning–at least to us, in the sense that we use the term: significance. So, where did all this meaning come from? How did meaning enter a ...

My dad is a chemist and physicist. I’m a psychologist. Over the years, our conversations have inspired me to think about the cosmos and consciousness. I’ve concluded the mind is a manifestation of the ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American This month at The Psychology Podcast we ...