Searching for the Origins of Life … and Our Future

Searching for the Origins of Life … and Our Future

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People have been asking questions like “How did we get here?” and “Are we alone?” since the time of Epicurus, around 300 B.C., if not earlier. And Dimitar Sasselov, an astrophysicist, says we probably won’t have a definitive answer in the next century either. But new tools and new data in a range of fields are allowing scientists to get closer to those answers than they ever have before.