Condensed concepts

 The theory of evolution explains the origin of biological diversity and levels of similarity between species. A characteristic of emergence...

Biology is a field that is all about emergence. It exhibits a hierarchy of structures from DNA to proteins to cells to organs to organisms. ...

Stimulated by discussions about the physics of learning machines with Gerard Milburn, I have been wondering about biomolecular machines suc...

 I really liked reading Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi . She is an amazing writer. I recently reread some of it for an extended family bo...

Since we are surrounded by scientific knowledge. We are so used to it that we can take science for granted and not reflect on how amazing sc...

 One of the many great things about The Economist magazine is that they run "Briefing" articles that give brief readable introduc...

I love this video.  I also found very helpful an article in The Economist, Anatomy of a killer , that gives a basic introduction to the b...

Unfortunately, hype in science reflects hype in broader society, including in business. The complete DNA sequencing of the human genome was ...

This post concerns what may be the fast known internal conversion process in a chemical system, non-radiative d ecay times in the range of ...

Biman Bagchi has just published a new book, Water in Biological and Chemical Processes: From Structure and Dynamics to Function  Cambrid...

Feynman said the most important idea is that all things are made from atoms. On the weekend I listened to a short and fascinating talk by Bi...

Yesterday I read an interesting paper Enol Tautomers of Watson−Crick Base Pair Models Are Metastable Because of Nuclear Quantum Effects A...

Cooperative transitions in macromolecules is the title of Chapter 9 in Biological Physics by Phil Nelson and this weeks reading for BIPH300...