In this article I investigate the apparent tension between liberal theories that highlight the foreign policy benefits of domestic accountability and the observation that the public tends to ...

We experimentally investigate the informational theory of legislative committees (Gilligan and Krehbiel 1989). Two committee members provide policy-relevant information to a legislature under ...

For decades, scientists have relied on a popular idea referred to as cosmic inflation to explain how the universe began and why it looks the way it does today. This theory suggests the universe ...

To recognize strange extraterrestrial life and solve biological mysteries on this planet, scientists are searching for an objective definition for life’s basic units. More than half a billion years ...

Sara Imari Walker discusses her research into the origins of life and the nature of information in biological systems. Mix & mingle over drinks & small bites with other attendees at our pre & ...

The polymath Christoph Adami is investigating life’s origins by reimagining living things as self-perpetuating information strings. There are few bigger — or harder — questions to tackle in science ...

LOOK closely enough and almost everything we know of in the universe boils down to a handful of elementary particles. These entities constitute individual threads of the scientific masterpiece that is ...