This article originally appeared online on Aug 26, 2020 in eLife. I have always thought of theory in biology as disciplined dreaming. The discipline comes from the challenge of creatively marrying the ...

An international team of researchers has developed a new theoretical framework that bridges physics and biology to provide a unified approach for understanding how complexity and evolution emerge in ...

Despite evolutionary theory having moved well beyond what Charles Darwin initially put down as a theory in "The Origin of Species" and his subsequent works, many of his principles still hold ...

Individuality is an important concept in biology, yet there are many non-equivalent criteria of individuality expressed in different kinds of biological individuals. This article evaluates these ...

Quantum physics is usually associated with particle colliders and vacuum chambers, not with the proteins quietly shuttling ...

Mesoscale modeling is often considered merely as a practical strategy used when information on lower-scale details is lacking, or when there is a need to make models cognitively or computationally ...

Assembly theory bridges the gap between physics and biology in explaining how complex objects are identifiable as products of evolution and how reusability of parts allows novelty and identical ...