In Bill Gates' words, "at its heart, Nick Lane's work is an attempt to right a scientific wrong by getting people to fully appreciate the role that energy plays in all living things. Nick argues that we can only start to answer these questions by fully appreciating the role of energy."

Reactive conditions in deep sea hydrothermal vents might have driven the origin of life on earth. Space telescopes suggest that similar conditions exist on billions of planets in our galaxy. Is life everywhere? From the Origins of life exhibit at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2015 (http://sse.royalsociety.org/2015/)