It’s not that simple. “There is an idea—the Rare Earth hypothesis—that even though our universe is clearly habitable, the conditions for life are vanishingly rare,” said Lewis.

The only evidence-based solution to the Fermi Paradox is called the Rare Earth hypothesis: that the series of circumstances leading to Earth’s creation, and eventually us humans, happened in ...

1 In this report, we will discuss the importance of the Hubbard U parameter in DFT calculations, and research involving the calculation of the Hubbard U parameter of rare-earth materials using ...