information theory

During development, cells seem to decode their fate through optimal information processing, which could hint at a more general principle of life.

In a Paris lab, researchers have shown for the first time that quantum methods of transmitting information are superior to classical ones.

Some researchers are using a complexity framework thought to be purely theoretical to understand evolutionary dynamics in biological and computational systems.

The evolutionary biologist Jessica Flack seeks the computational rules that groups of organisms use to solve problems.

New math shows how, contrary to conventional scientific wisdom, conscious beings and other macroscopic entities might have greater influence over the future than do the sum of their microscopic components.

As physicists extend the 19th-century laws of thermodynamics to the quantum realm, they’re rewriting the relationships among energy, entropy and information.

To avoid garbled messages, mathematicians might translate them into geometric form.

Life was long thought to obey its own set of rules. But as simple systems show signs of lifelike behavior, scientists are arguing about whether this apparent complexity is all a consequence of thermodynamics.

The polymath Christoph Adami is investigating life’s origins by reimagining life as self-perpetuating information strings.