OpinionJanuary 12, 2024
Information Theory Can Help Us Search for Life on Alien Worlds
Information theory can help us decode signs of biological activity hiding in the atmospheres of distant exoplanets
Stories by Marcelo Gleiser
Marcelo Gleiser is the Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy at Dartmouth College and author of The Dawn of a Mindful Universe: A Manifesto for Humanity's Future.
CognitionJune 1, 2018
How Much Can We Know?
The reach of the scientific method is constrained by the limitations of our tools and the intrinsic impenetrability of some of nature's deepest questions