Making healthcare more affordable, effective and personal is one of the greatest challenges of our time. The Living Matter Lab, ATLAS Institute's newest research lab, is rising to that challenge; the ...

When describing collective properties of macroscopic physical systems, microscopic fluctuations are typically averaged out, leaving a description of the typical behavior of the systems. While this ...

Living matter and active matter, as a physical system, comprise ensembles of constituents that continuously consume energy to generate mechanical work, drive motion, and maintain structures far from ...

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, ...

A new study proposes a framework for understanding living matter as a cascade of machines making machines, extending from the atomic scale to the scale of the entire biosphere. What is life?-This ...

Center for Soft and Living Matter, IBS has the following research output in the current window (1 January 2025 - 31 December 2025) of the Nature Index. Click on Count to view a list of articles ...

For millennia, scientists, engineers, philosophers and artists have pondered time. What is it? How do we measure it? How does it impact our sense of reality? The Living Matter Lab at the ATLAS ...