Featured press coverage
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Work from our team is featured in Issue #7 of the NASA Astrobiology Graphic Novel Series by Aaron Gronstal, on "Prebiotic Chemistry and the Origin of Life".
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Popular videos
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Dr. Walker is featured in a short film discussing the answer to "What is Life?" as part of a series of films on the long term impact of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and provides her thoughts on the impact of the novel.
Dr. Walker participated in a panel discussion on "Who is Out There: Why Alien 'Life' may be Weirder than we Imagine" at the 2018 World Science Festival in New York City.
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Dr. Walker talks about astrobiology and life as a scientist on her favorite social network.
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You can also see Dr. Walker on "Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman", Season 6 episode 5 titled "Are we here for a Reason?"
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Technical talks
Dr. Walker speaks about self-organizing systems and the origin of life during a presentation on Life is What?
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Dr. Walker presents on life and consciousness as a part of the Mathematical Consciousness Science online seminar series.
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Dr. Walker gives a talk at the 2019 Breakthrough Discuss Conference on the 'laws of life' and how we might quantitatively approach understanding life on other worlds, focusing on Saturn's Icy Moon Enceladus.
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Dr. Walker's talk at the 2019 Earth-Life Science Institute Symposium at Tokyo Tech on the topic of the physics of life.
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Dr. Walker's plenary talk on new frontiers in biosignature research with statistical and probabilistic approaches.
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Dr. Walker participates in a panel on "Possibilities for Non-Terran Life in the Universe" at the 2018 Breakthrough Discuss conference.
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TEDx ASU - Dr. Walker on a "A Universal Theory of Life".
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Dr. Walker discusses systems-level approaches to biosignatures in exoplanet atmospheres, inspired by complexity science at the Astrobiology Science Conference in 2017.
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Dr. Walker leads a plenary session on new approaches to the origins of life, featuring leading scientists Irena Mamajanov, Betul Kacar and Lee Cronin at the Astrobiology Science Conference in 2017.
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Dr. Walker participates in a panel on social and conceptual issues in astrobiology at the Astrobiology Science Conference in 2017.
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The Science of Consciousness plenary on the "Origin and Evolution of Life" -Dr. Walker's talk starts at ~1:13.
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Dr. Walker's seminar at the SETI institute in 2012 on "The Algorithmic Origins of Life".
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More Technical Talks
- "Bio from Bit: Quantifying the Origins of Life", Talk at the Waterloo Institute for Complexity & Innovation
- "Statistical Signatures of Life", Keynote at NASA "Exoplanet Biosignatures Workshop without Walls"
- Sara Walker is featured in an episode of "Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman", titled “Are We Here for a Reason?”.
- Huffpost Live segment on space exploration, on Huffpost Live
- "The Information Hierarchy, Chemical Evolution and the Emergence of Life", NASA Astrobiology Institute lecture
- "Life Redefined" google hangout discussion on HuffPost Live
- "The Future of Humans in Space", public panel discussion at the Beyond Center, Arizona State University
- "The Algorithmic Origins of Life", colloquium at University of Washington
- "Algorithmic Origins of Life", SETI Institute public lecture
Audio Interviews
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Written Interviews
- "How theoretical physicists can help find E.T.", interview with Hanneke Weitering at Space.com
- "Defining Life's Digital Software" interview with Bruce Dorminey on Forbes.com
- "From Soup to Cells: Measuring the Emergence of Life" in Astrobiology Magazine
- Interview with Suzan Mazur and links to coverage of the Princeton Origin of Life Meeting (1, 2)
- HuffPost Live discussion on “Life Redefined”
- Interview with Blue Marble Space Institute of Science and summary of "The Algorithmic Origins of life
OTHER PRESS
- "Origin Story", Aeon, article by Natalie Elliot
- "Are Aliens Hiding in Plan Sight", The Guardian, article by Philip Ball
- "ASU Scientists Study Organization of Life at a Planetary Scale", ASU Now
- "Living Organisms find a Critical Balance" ASU Now
- "Constructing a theory of life", Foundational Questions in Science Institute
- "The 4 biggest milestones in the history of life on Earth", Washington Post
- "3.7-billion-year-old fossils may be the oldest signs of life on Earth", Washington Post
- "Why Physics is not a Discipline", Nautilus Magazine
- "Seeking New Insights into Life's Origin", NASA Astrobiology
- "Meet the 'Dune' Readers: Kim Stanley Robinson and Sara Imari Walker", NPR's Science Friday
- "Dune Discussion Question: Week #2", NPR's Science Friday
- "If the world is a computer, life is an algorithm", Science News Blog post
- "Life began when algorithms took control", Science News Blog post
- "NASA Astrobiology NPP Alumni Series: Sara Walker", NASA Astrobiology Institute
- "The Secret of Life Won't be Cooked Up in a Chemistry Lab", The Guardian
- "New way to look at dawn of life: Focus shifts from 'hardware' to 'software'", Science Daily
- "Mysterious origin of life needs a rethink, scientists argue", NBC News
- "A New Way to Look at the Dawn of Life", NASA Astrobiology Institute
- "Origin Of Life: New Study Spotlights Not Chemistry But How Living Things Store, Process Information", OpEdNews.com
- "The Origins of Life" --Radical New Theory Says Origin is Algorithmic vs Chemical", Daily Galaxy
- "Scientists Offer New Way To Look At The Origins Of Life", RedOrbit
- "An information-processing approach to the origin of life", Kurzweil News
- "Rethink creation of life in terms of information, argues new theory", Sci GoGo
- "ASU researchers propose new way to look at the dawn of life", ASU News
- "Origin of life needs a rethink, scientists argue", CBS News
- "A New Way to Look at the Dawn of Life", Astrobiology Magazine
- "There's No Place Like Home", Nature News & Views