Skeptics question if building cities, removing forests and increasing the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere matter in the big picture of life on earth.

Although at times we all wonder, “Why am I here?” and “What is the meaning of my life?” these questions arise from a larger crisis of identity.

The idea of a moral basis for behavior is uniquely human. Morality implies that we bring judgment to our decisions.

In 1996 energetic brain scientist Jill Bolte Taylor had a stroke. Her recovery took eight years, but it was anything but time lost.

After about two months of Martian days on the surface, NASA’s Phoenix robotic lander is well down the road to completing several important aspects of its mission.

If new stem cells could be grown in the lab, could a patient’s cells be cloned and used to replace or repair his degenerative disease?

How much would you pay to know what thoughts are swimming around in someone else’s head? And if you could really know their truthfulness how much more would you pay?

NASA’s robotic spacecraft Phoenix’s Martian mission is to look for evidence of organic molecules and the history of a habitable environment in the planet’s past.

Today, events such as Earth Day and the combined international efforts to complete and man the ISS are offshoots of the original cooperative Sputnik mission of 1957.

Over a century after Einstein’s first papers on relativity were published, it is challenging to contemplate what has yet to be revealed.

To expect to see God is akin to expecting to see television signals through our unaided eyes: both are outside the realm of human detection.

How can moving faster through space somehow slow the movement of time?

Are human awareness, conscience and even consciousness itself simply a lucky mix, a repackaging of something that our biological ancestors somehow had in part?

Almost 55 years have passed since the publication in Nature of Francis Crick and James Watson’s description of the structure of DNA.

The problem of how blind processes of evolution create new species and biological systems through small steps is addressed in two recent books.

Whether or not one believes global climate change is related to human use of fossil fuels, the politics of climate alternation seem to be here to stay.

A table offers a simple way to outline some fundamental observations of cosmology, along with standard and alternative interpretations of each.

Eric J. Lerner has written and done extensive research in the field of cosmology. It is on this subject that Vision recently interviewed him.

The most confounding question that arises from the big bang theory is a simple one: If the big bang is the origin of the universe, what happened before?

We now possess the means of exploring many of the great questions of our place in the universe. But will we find the answers we’re looking for?