In a new Nature Physics study, researchers have provided evidence of universal conformal invariance in living biological ...

Understanding how genes influence complex behaviors remains one of biology’s most fascinating challenges. Now, however, in a ...

The working groups, which span 43 institutions across 18 states - including Washington, D.C. - and six countries, are ...

"The variety of electronic properties based on a single material is highly intriguing to us from a materials science perspective," says Yoshihiro Iwasa of the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter ...

This important study shows how the relative importance of inter-species interactions in microbiomes can be inferred from empirical species abundance data. The methods based on statistical physics of ...

The ability to conduct heat is one of the most fundamental properties of matter ... is widely believed to be dominated by phonons − emergent particles that represent crystal lattice vibrations.

Ecological network management provides key mechanistic knowledge on ecosystem degradation that links species- to ecosystem-level responses to global change, and emerging technological tools offer the ...