Probability underlies much of the modern world – an engineering professor explains how it actually works

Probability underpins AI, cryptography and statistics. However, as the philosopher Bertrand Russell said, “Probability is the ...
Phys.org

New theory concludes that the origin of life on Earth-like planets is likely

In the abiogenesis case of interest, it's the same thing. The existence of life on Earth is old evidence and just like in the conception analogy the probability that abiogenesis is easy is much more ...
KHQ

New way to calculate probability of intelligent alien life in universe

Scientists are working on an accurate way of calculating the probability of finding alien life elsewhere in the universe. Astrophysicists have developed a theoretical model that could be used to ...
Ars Technica

Phosphorous minerals stoke speculation of life beginning on Mars

Having life be a little bit more rare doesn't really help with the Fermi Paradox. The universe is simply too vast for a even a few orders of magnitude change in the probability of life to be the ...