Have we encountered alien life already and just not realized it? And could deepening our understanding of life in the universe transform our understanding of ourselves? Explore the profound questions driving the research of astrobiologist Dr. Sara Walker of Arizona State University, recipient of a grant from the John Templeton Foundation.
"Life is literally the physics of creativity," says Walker. "It's hard to imagine what it's going to be like when we actually understand what we are," she says. "I think we take for granted how special we are. We are a very odd kind of system to exist."
Learn more about Walker and team's efforts to expand our definition of life, and to seek whether there are fundamental, universal laws to describe life analogous to the laws of gravitation.
It's a quest for knowledge that could not only enlarge our vision of the universe -- it could transform humanity's understanding of itself.
Learn more at templeton.org/discoveries
