Does the Great Filter spell doom for humanity?

Much like how we use a sieve to strain or refine liquids and dry ingredients, the Great Filter is a universal sieve with its primary ingredient being actual species, and in our case, humanity. The Great Filter is the response to a question posed by Nobel Laureate and physicist Enrico Fermi when he pondered about […]

Living in the Extreme: Extremophiles

Life on earth, as we know it today, developed through an evolutionary process of significant complexity over millions of years. The details are still contested in the scientific arena, but general consensus states life originated around 4.0 billion years ago on the ponds and oceans of a primitive Earth. Back then, our planet was bathed […]