Many billions of years will elapse before the smallest, youngest stars complete their nuclear burning and shrink into white dwarfs. But with… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Perhaps the best motivation for going to Mars is political. It is obvious that no single nation currently has either the will… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
"Are we alone in the universe?" This is a question which goes back to the dawn of history, but for most of… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Searching for alternative life on Earth might seem misconceived, because there is excellent evidence that every kind of life so far studied… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
The problem here is that a civilization that is 1,000 light years away doesn't know we exist. They don't know that we… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
It's worth remembering that all technology leaves a footprint. For example, our own technology is leaving a footprint in terms of global… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
We might expect intelligent life and technological communities to have emerged in the universe billions of years ago. Given that human society… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
“When I was a child, I often used to lie awake at night, in fearful anticipation of some unpleasant event the following day, such… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
So how can we test the idea that the transition from nonlife to life is simple enough to happen repeatedly? The most obvious and… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
I think if we're going to send messages to the stars then it needs a great deal of thought that it's something that should… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Cosmologists have attempted to account for the day-to-day laws you find in textbooks in terms of fundamental 'superlaws,' but the superlaws themselves must still… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Studying cancer could provide huge insights for astrobiologists into the nature of life itself. — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Cancer cells come pre-programmed to execute a well-defined cascade of changes, seemingly designed to facilitate both their enhanced survival and their dissemination through the… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
It may seem bizarre, but in my opinion science offers a surer path to God than religion. — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
“Until now, I've been writing about "now" as if it were literally an instant of time, but of course human faculties are not infinitely… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
A permanent base on Mars would have a number of advantages beyond being a bonanza for planetary science and geology. If, as some evidence… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Although the elusive 'cure' may be a distant dream, understanding the true nature of cancer will enable it to be better controlled and less… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Through conscious beings the universe has generated self-awareness. This can be no trivial detail, no minor byproduct of mindless, purposeless forces. We are truly… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
The birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newton's formulation of the laws of gravitation and motion. It is no… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
