Stephen Whitelam, a researcher whose work spans thermodynamic theory and machine learning, has described a framework for generating images from pure noise by using the physics of heat and motion ...

Assembly Theory is a way to understand how the complexity of life emerged through a mechanism of “self-assembly.” It could explain how life formed on Earth—or other planets—via the shortest path to ...

We have only one example of biology forming in the universe – life on Earth. But what if life can form in other ways? How do you look for alien life when you don’t know what alien life might look like ...