Physicists have long grappled with the question of why the universe was able to support the evolution of intelligent life. The values of the many forces and particles, represented by some 30 so-called ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. The universe is constantly expanding, and at the moment, researchers believe that the observable universe has stretched 46 billion light-years from its ...

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The cosmos still holds many surprises for us. A recent study suggests that our position in the Universe might be more unique than previously thought. Astronomers long believed that the distribution of ...

It’s easy to envisage other universes, governed by slightly different laws of physics, in which no intelligent life, nor indeed any kind of organized complex systems, could arise. Should we therefore ...