What is Life? (opens in new tab)

Since Schrodinger's \emph{What Is Life?}, the physical basis of biological organization has been understood in terms of the interplay between matter, energy, and information. Subsequent developments in molecular biology, information theory, nonequilibrium thermodynamics, and evolutionary theory have clarified how hereditary information is stored, maintained, and modified through natural selection. Here, we extend this program by asking what mini...