In this article I investigate the apparent tension between liberal theories that highlight the foreign policy benefits of domestic accountability and the observation that the public tends to ...

To recognize strange extraterrestrial life and solve biological mysteries on this planet, scientists are searching for an objective definition for life’s basic units. More than half a billion years ...

The polymath Christoph Adami is investigating life’s origins by reimagining living things as self-perpetuating information strings. There are few bigger — or harder — questions to tackle in science ...