New Scientist tackles eight of the deepest challenges faced by science – from reality and consciousness, to free will and death, in The Big Questions special features. No human discovery could have ...

Biology asks, how does life work? Meta-biology or Philosophy of Biology asks, what is life, fundamentally? The meta of every science asks the bigger questions, it judges the fundamental assumptions ...

ノーベル生理学・医学賞を受賞した生物学者ポール・ナースの初の著書『WHAT IS LIFE?(ホワット・イズ・ライフ?）生命とは何 ...

ノーベル生理学・医学賞を受賞した生物学者ポール・ナースの初の著書『WHAT IS LIFE?（ホワット・イズ・ライフ?）生命とは ...

THE title of Ed Regis’s What is Life? comes from Erwin Schrödinger’s 1944 classic – a book that inspired physicists and other scientists to study biological systems, catalysing the field of molecular ...

Thomas R. Verny is a clinical psychiatrist, academic, award-winning author, poet and public speaker. He is the author of eight books, including the global bestseller The Secret Life of the Unborn ...

I watch Rufus, a friend’s dog, chew enthusiastically on a rubber bone. I know the dog is alive, and his toy is not. I know that intuitively. But can I prove it scientifically? Can science parse the ...