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 ...

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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 ...

Living systems exhibit oscillations, patterns, and collective modes that arise from nonlinear interactions among their components. From coupled genetic oscillators and rhythmic physiological processes ...