One fact parents can explain to their adolescent is this: as the young person grows older, life is going to keep becoming more complex. What this means for the adolescent is that she or he must keep ...

If we’re not careful, our limited perspective can turn magic into frustration. I was watching a football game with a friend recently when, after a less-than-perfect play by the San Francisco 49ers, he ...

Assembly Theory is a way to understand how the complexity of life emerged through a mechanism of “self-assembly.” It could explain how life formed on Earth—or other planets—via the shortest path to ...