Radical Theory Explains the Origin, Evolution, and Nature of Life, Challenges Conventional Wisdom

Earth is alive, asserts a revolutionary scientific theory of life emerging from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. The trans-disciplinary theory demonstrates that purportedly inanimate, non-living objects -- for example, planets, water, proteins, and DNA -- are animate, that is, alive. With its broad explanatory power, applicable to all areas of science and medicine, this novel paradigm aims to catalyze a veritable renaissance.

Beauty Sprouting

The Sprouting of Beauty

Looking more like a painting than an astronomy photograph, the Omega nebula glows with vivid colors in this new image from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope. This is one of the sharpest and most detailed images of this object ever taken from a ground-based telescope.The nebula — located around 6,500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Sagittarius — is thought to be a hotbed of recent star formation. The cloud of gas and dust spans approximately 15 light-years and is estimated to contain enough material to produce 800 sun-like stars.