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The Leap to Life: $2.9M Grant to Explore Life’s Emergence

Robotic chemical reactors, synthetic organisms, and artificial intelligence are poised to shed new light on one of science’s most engaging and vexingly murky questions — the origin of life — in a unique new research project with $2.9 million in core funding from the John Templeton Foundation. The project got its formal start this fall at the University of Arizona under the leadership of astrobiologist Sara Walker, who has made several key contributions to the study of life’s origins, and Paul Davies, a theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and 1995 Templeton Prize laureate. The three-year series of studies and analyses aims to…

WATCH: How to Find Meaning in the Bottom of a Boat

How does a scientist who grew up only believing in what could be lab-tested come to find meaning through transcendental experience and deep conversations with a Buddhist monk? Recently we sat down with MIT Professor Dr. Alan Lightman to find out.  The acclaimed physicist, author, and John Templeton Foundation grantee joined our Director of Public Engagement, Christopher Levenick, to talk about his career in science, and his long journey to find meaning in his own life.  A transcendental moment on the water At the beginning of the video, Levenick reads a passage from Lightman’s book, Searching for Stars on an…

A molecular complexity approach to identifying bio-signatures, shadow-life, and new life forms

True Stories Well Told: Using Narrative to Search For Harmonies Between Science and Religion

The Black Hole in the Basement: Part I

Pilot Program: Think Big! Life in the Cosmos for the Smithsonian Future is Here Festival

NOVA Programming on the Cosmos

The Black Hole in the Basement: Part II

Geometric Phases and Symmetric Quantum Measurements

Thomistic Institute: Seeking the Unity of Truth Through Science and Faith