The polymath Christoph Adami is investigating life’s origins by reimagining living things as self-perpetuating information strings. There are few bigger — or harder — questions to tackle in science ...

Science seeks the basic laws of nature. Mathematics searches for new theorems to build upon the old. Engineering builds systems to solve human needs. The three disciplines are interdependent but ...

In a video from the early 1950s, Bell Labs scientist Claude Shannon demonstrates one of his new inventions: a toy mouse named Theseus that looks like it could be a wind-up. The gaunt Shannon, looking ...