Our work is sometimes featured in general publications and scientific commentaries, and some examples are listed below. For an up-to-date list, try this search.
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Can jumping genes explain biological complexity?
Stephen Fleischfresser, Cosmos, Nov 2018 |
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A math theory for why people hallucinate. July 2018
Jennifer Ouellette, Quanta Magazine. |
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Competitive adaptation prevents species from eradicating each other. June 2018
Article from SIAM News |
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Evolution saves species from Kill-the-Winner disasters, Feb 2018
Article from Quanta Magazine. |
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Un paradosso della biodiversita spiegato con virus e batteri
Focus Magazine, Jan 2018. |
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Biodiversity: Winning ways
Commentary by Andreas Trabesinger, Nature Physics Jan 2018 |
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NG: The humility of ignorance.
Article by CW Headley Sept 2017. |
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Seeing emergent physics behind evolution. Interview with Nigel Goldenfeld, August 2017
Article from Quanta Magazine. |
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Automated system finds rapid honey bee communication networks, Jan 2018
Article on Phys.org. |
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Statistics resolve "Kill-the-Winner" paradox
Cosmos Magazine, January 2018 |
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Straight up with a twist: homochirality from basic life requirements, Oct 2015
Article on Phys.Org |
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Unexpected spiral vortex phenomenon, April 19, 2016
Science Daily |
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Watching jumping genes in action, June 13 2016
Article in Phys.Org |
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Go with the flow
Interview on NPR/WCAI |
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Ecological extinction explains how turbulence dies, Nov 18 2015
Press release in Phys. Org. |
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Slow motion waves of jumping genes in the human genome, Nov 14 2016
Press release in Phys.Org. |
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When math meets Nature: Turing patterns and form constants, March 2013
Article in Scientific American blog. |
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RFID tags on bees reveal hive dynamics, July 23 2014
Article in Phys.Org based upon UIUC press release |
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Interview with Nigel Goldenfeld at the Huffington Post, May 2014
We need a theory of Life by Suzan Mazur |
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Digging down below the Tree of Life
Astrobiolology Magazine, Mar 28 2013 |
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NASA announces selection of Astrobiology Institute at UIUC Sep 5 2012
NASA press release; Champaign-Urbana News Gazette article; UIUC press release; Physics Dept. news article; Baylor College of Medicine article. |
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The Guardian, 19 March 2010
Why everything you've been told about evolution is wrong by Oliver Burkeman |
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New Scientist, Jan 23 2010
Horizontal and vertical: the evolution of evolution by Mark Buchanan
Focuses on the challenge HGT poses to "Darwinian evolution" |
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The Edge Annual Question, Jan 10, 2010
How is the internet changing the way you think?
(my essay is here) |
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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Oct 20 2009
Life is a Collective Superorganism by George Dyson
(German original is here.) |
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Nature Physics, August 2009
Collectivist revolution in evolution by Mark Buchanan
Description of our work on collective effects in evolution |
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New York Times, March 10, 2009
They tried to outsmart Wall Street by Dennis Overbye
A rather misleading and confused account of physicists on Wall Street.
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Nature Physics, Jan 2009
No man is an island - editorial on financial crisis and complexity |
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Radiolab, National Public Radio, Mar 14 2008
(So-called) Life. Streaming podcast available here, or download here. |
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Nature and Nature Physics, March 28 2008
Natural Beauty and Watch your step by O. Hammer |
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New Scientist, March 22 2008
Predicting how hot springs turn into such cool things |
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The New York Review of Books, July 19 2007
Our Biotech Future by Freeman Dyson |
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Nature Physics, April 2007
The messy truth about drag by Mark Buchanan |
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Science et Vie Jr., September 2006
Les maths, c'est naturel |
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Editor's Choice, Science, August 4 2006
Leaving out the details by Andrew Sugden |
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PhysOrg.com, July 12 2006
Large rock growth at geothermal hot springs by Lisa Zyga |
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The Loom, July 12 2006
In the beginning was Linux? by Carl Zimmer |
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New York Times, July 18 2006
Mysterious steps, explained at last by Kenneth Chang |
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Press release, July 5 2006
Watching rocks grow: theory explains landscape of geothermal springs by James Kloeppel |
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Chicago Tribune, April 2 2006
New UI research looks into classic unsolved problem by Greg Kline (syndicated version of News-Gazette article) |
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Daily Illini, Feb 14 2006
Old experiment yields new uses byKiran Sood |
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Champaign-Urbana News Gazette, Feb 19 2006
A bridge to explaining troubled waters by Greg Kline |
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Softpedia, Feb 12 2006
Turbulence - the last mystery of classical physics
by Vlad Tarko |
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Daily News and Analysis, Feb 9 2006
(Mumbai, India)
Scientists build a bridge over turbulent waters by Shivaji Das |
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Press release Jan 31, 2006
Turbulence yields secrets to 73-year old experiment
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Chicago Tribune Magazine, Jan 8 2006.
The Cosmic Conversation by Ronald
Kotulak. |
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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 |
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Champaign-Urbana News Gazette, Oct 23 2005
Professors' projects aiming to pin down life's origin by Greg Kline |
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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 |
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New Scientist, Feb 26 2005.
Cover article entitled "How to see the future", by Mark Buchanan, features our work on coarse-graining cellular automata. |
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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.
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Nature, March 4, 2004.
News and Views article by Philip Ball.
Complex systems: predicting the unpredictable. |
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Physical Review Focus, Feb 20, 2004.
Complexity is elusive by Don Monroe. |
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The Industrial Physicist, Dec 1999.
Physicists graduate from Wall Street by Jennifer Ouellette |
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Contemporary Physics, May/June 1993.
Review of Lectures on Phase Transitions and the Renormalization Group by Ian Lawrie. |
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New York Times, Jan 6 1987.
Snowflake's riddle yields to probing of science by James Gleick. |
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Nature, 19 Sep 1985.
News and Views article by John Maddox.
DNA as a kind of solid. |
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Science, May 31 1985.
Fractal fingers in viscous fluids by Arthur Robinson. |
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Science, June 8 1984.
Crystal anisotropy directs solidification by Arthur Robinson.
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