American Council on Science and Health

From Cells to Cities: Understanding Public Health Through Entropy

From tiny cells to vast cities, life persists by keeping chaos under control. The same thermodynamic forces that cause coffee ...
insider.si.edu

Entropy, information, and evolution new perspectives on physical and biological evolution edited by Bruce H. Weber, David J. Depew, and James D. Smith

Entropy in an expanding universe / Steven Frautschi -- Growth of order in the universe / David Layzer -- Parity violation and the origin of biomolecular chirality / Dilip Kondepudi -- Kinetic theory ...
EurekAlert!

Identification of critical states in complex biological systems using cell-specific causal network entropy

The complex biological processes, such as pericyte-to-neuron transition, pluripotency-to-hepatocyte transition, and epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition, involve pre-transition or critical states ...

A Scientist Says He Has the Evidence That We Live in a Simulation

A scientist proposes a new law of physics suggesting the universe may be a digital simulation, linking physics, biology, and ...
News Medical

Study identifies DNA methylation entropy as a biomarker for aging

A new research paper was published in Aging (Aging-US) Volume 17, Issue 3, on March 12, 2025, titled "DNA methylation entropy is a biomarker for aging." Researchers Jonathan Chan, Liudmilla Rubbi, and ...
Nature

Thermodynamics in Virology and Plant Biology

Thermodynamics provides a fundamental framework to decipher the energetic underpinnings of biological processes. In both virology and plant biology, the principles of energy transformation—captured ...