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Our work is sometimes featured in general publications and scientific commentaries, and some examples are listed here:

Radiolab, National Public Radio, Mar 14 2008

(So-called) Life. Streaming podcast available here, or download here.

Nature and Nature Physics, March 28 2008

Natural Beauty and Watch your step by O. Hammer

New Scientist, March 22 2008

Predicting how hot springs turn into such cool things

The New York Review of Books, July 19 2007

Our Biotech Future by Freeman Dyson

Nature Physics, April 2007

The messy truth about drag by Mark Buchanan

Science et Vie Jr., September 2006

Les maths, c'est naturel

Editor's Choice, Science, August 4 2006

Leaving out the details by Andrew Sugden

PhysOrg.com, July 12 2006

Large rock growth at geothermal hot springs by Lisa Zyga

The Loom, July 12 2006

In the beginning was Linux? by Carl Zimmer

New York Times, July 18 2006

Mysterious steps, explained at last by Kenneth Chang

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Press release, July 5 2006

Watching rocks grow: theory explains landscape of geothermal springs by James Kloeppel

Chicago Tribune, April 2 2006

New UI research looks into classic unsolved problem by Greg Kline (syndicated version of News-Gazette article)

Daily Illini, Feb 14 2006

Old experiment yields new uses byKiran Sood

Champaign-Urbana News Gazette, Feb 19 2006

A bridge to explaining troubled waters by Greg Kline

Pal and Basu

Softpedia, Feb 12 2006

Turbulence - the last mystery of classical physics

by Vlad Tarko

Daily News and Analysis, Feb 9 2006
(Mumbai, India)

Scientists build a bridge over turbulent waters by Shivaji Das

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Press release Jan 31, 2006

Turbulence yields secrets to 73-year old experiment

Chicago Tribune Magazine, Jan 8 2006.

The Cosmic Conversation by Ronald Kotulak.

Science, Nov 4 2005
Special issue on Systems-level Brain Development

Sex differences in the brain: implications for explaining autism
by Simon Baron-Cohen, Rebecca Knickmeyer and Matthew Belmonte

Champaign-Urbana News Gazette, Oct 23 2005

Professors' projects aiming to pin down life's origin by Greg Kline

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Press Release Sep 28, 2005

U. of I. researchers to play key roles in study of how life emerged on earth

New Scientist, Feb 26 2005.

Cover article
entitled "How to see the future", by Mark Buchanan, features our work on coarse-graining cellular automata.

Cern Courier, May 2004.

Towards a new kind of complexity
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Science News, March 20 2004.
Article by Peter Weiss.

Complexity by way of simplicity.

Nature, March 4, 2004.
News and Views article by Philip Ball.

Complex systems: predicting the unpredictable.

Physical Review Focus, Feb 20, 2004.
Complexity is elusive by Don Monroe.

The Industrial Physicist, Dec 1999.
Physicists graduate from Wall Street by Jennifer Ouellette
Contemporary Physics, May/June 1993.
Review of Lectures on Phase Transitions and the Renormalization Group by Ian Lawrie.
New York Times, Jan 6 1987.
Snowflake's riddle yields to probing of science by James Gleick.
 

Nature, 19 Sep 1985.
News and Views article by John Maddox.
DNA as a kind of solid.

  Science, May 31 1985.
Fractal fingers in viscous fluids by Arthur Robinson.
 

Science, June 8 1984.
Crystal anisotropy directs solidification by Arthur Robinson.

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