That is life as we know it. And it is enough. [End of Feature]

“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”

This self-awareness is both our triumph and our terror. We are the first species to know that the sun will eventually expand and boil the oceans (in ~1 billion years). We are the first to deliberately alter the planet’s chemistry (the Anthropocene) and the first to wonder if we are alone.