Since the rise of Western megacities, novelists have often likened the city—and its productive systems—to a living organism. Indeed, urban areas have been referred to in various anatomical terms: a ...

MOFs look stable in the lab, but living systems tell a different story. Why ‘stable’ materials can break down in bodies, with hidden risks ...

Quantum effects are no longer confined to ultra-cold chips and vacuum chambers. For the first time, researchers have deliberately engineered a controllable quantum bit inside living cells and tied it ...

The National Science Foundation has awarded $15.5 million to researchers at the University of Chicago over six years to establish a new field of physics that focuses on how living matter can store, ...

This series explores the many ways that living systems create and regulate environmental conditions on our planet. Without a living system, Earth would be a dry barren rock, like Venus or Mars. Life ...

This approach is grounded in a belief in material intelligence. Materials are not treated as neutral resources to be shaped into predetermined forms, but as active agents with specific behaviors, ...