Information theory

The thorny thought experiment has been turned into a real experiment — one that physicists use to probe the physics of information.

Today’s information age is only possible thanks to the groundbreaking work of a lone genius.

To recognize strange extraterrestrial life and solve biological mysteries on this planet, scientists are searching for an objective definition for life’s basic units.

Quantum computers can’t selectively forget information. A new algorithm for multiplication shows a way around that problem.

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.