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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 ...

For decades physicists have been perplexed about why our cosmos appears to have been precisely tuned to foster intelligent life. It is widely thought that if the values of certain physical parameters, ...

First, the Earth turns out to be a middling planet that's not at the centre of the universe revolving around it. Then, the Sun is just a middling star that's not at the centre of the universe. Then, ...

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A spate of recent articles (like this one on Alec Hogg’s Biznews) has led to a resurgence in the religious idea that the universe is too “finely tuned” for it to be the result of an accident, or a ...

A fundamental concept is coming back to the fore – that the universe may be fine-tuned for life. The idea is that physical laws and constants are inexplicably just right to support it; any different ...

Humans have often looked at the night sky and wondered if there’s anyone else out there. But stare into that darkness long enough, and many wonder instead: how did we get here? What were the odds, in ...

Daniele Sorini was funded from the European Research Council, through grant no. 670193. We particularly studied how the emergence of intelligent life is affected by the density of “dark energy” in the ...