James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

Cosmological natural selection may sound like a complicated or strange idea, but it's actually pretty simple and well-known within cosmology. I'll provide a bit more detail about it later, but just ...

Across physics, biology and philosophy, a once-fringe idea is gaining new intellectual weight: the possibility that the cosmos behaves less like a dead machine and more like a living system. Instead ...