Half a century ago, a quiet theorist working far from the big Western labs proposed a radical answer to one of science’s hardest questions: what, exactly, makes something alive. His framework for how ...
Nearly 90 years ago, a Soviet physicist, Arkady Migdal, introduced a revolutionary idea. Now, for the very first time, Chinese scientists directly observed it. Uncovering this theory, called the ...
In 1869, Swiss scientist Friedrich Miescher isolated a mysterious substance from cell nuclei—an overlooked finding that would ...