“I’m not saying it’s all true,” says Christoph Simon, a physicist at the University of Calgary in Canada. “I’m just saying it is not crazy to look for it.” He is talking about the possibility that ...

Looking at life at the atomic scale offers a more comprehensive understanding of the macroscopic world. theasis/E+ via Getty Images Imagine using your cellphone to control the activity of your own ...

Eighty years ago, physicist Erwin Schrödinger asked a deceptively simple question: What is life? In a series of lectures in Dublin, later published as a short book, he proposed that the principles of ...