Assembly Theory, the work of Sara Imari Walker and Prof. Lee Cronin, is my new obsession (and will be featured in an episode of my forthcoming series, Lights On). This is a fun episode of Complexity via Santa Fe Institute: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/com…

Happy to share our new article in The Journal of Physical Chemistry. pubs.acs.org/doi/epdf/10.10… #MDsimulations by Jonathan Lasham Amina. #CryoEM analysis by Janet Vonck Amina Volker Zickermann.

Our new paper on Hybrid Computation demonstrating programmability, hybrid Cellular Automata, and Computation. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Building a chemical consciousness is the motivation behind Prof. Lee Cronin's flashy but unfamiliar computer. It's awe-inspiring, but the jury's out on just what it can do. Story by me at Chemistry World with comments from Theodore Gray and Ben de Lacy Costello. chemistryworld.com/news/pulsating…

As promised, Luokun Zhang has written a blog post about his time as a master student in Scotland and his internship in the group. Recommended reading for those curious about interdisciplinary research and what it's like to train as a scientist. mehr-research.science/2024/crafting-…

Scientists harness chemical dynamics for complex problem solving Nature Communications phys.org/news/2024-04-s…

Our new paper on quantifying Molecular Complexity using Assembly Theory and multiple spectroscopic techniques NMR, IR, and MS.

I'm so happy to share that my debut book, LIFE AS NO ONE KNOWS IT, comes out August 6th, 2024 from Riverhead Books! Read more about it here: bit.ly/3QN0Nop

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Can BZ simulate Logic Gates and CA? Yes! "Programming Weakly Connected Chemical Oscillators to Simulate Logic Gates and Cellular Automata" by Juan Manuel Parrilla Gutierrez, Abhishek Sharma, Soichiro Tsuda and Prof. Lee Cronin #ALIFE2024 #DistributedViking ALIFE Conference 2025

Exploring how matter becomes alive & how assembly theory aims to bridge the gap between physics & biology through chemistry. bigthink.com/the-well/how-d…

Our latest preprint on AI-assisted robotic exploration of polymorphs. arxiv.org/abs/2409.05196

Our new preprint uses the framework of Assembly Theory to quantify selectivity that leads to the observation of natural products. arxiv.org/abs/2409.05993

Is click chemistry chemputable? The answer here doi.org/10.1016/j.chem…

The 2024 Noble Prize in physics has been awarded to Cillian Murphy and Margot Robbie for the Barbenheimer effect. This phenomenon, involving the superposition of two very attractive people, allows physics to become interesting, a state which is otherwise spin-forbidden.

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”

Happy to share our joint work with Pedro Latorre Muro Puigserver Lab on #mitochondrial CI:CIII2 #supercomplex in Cell. Structural basis of respiratory complex adaptation to cold temperatures: Cell cell.com/cell/fulltext/…. Simulations by Amina Oleksii Zdorevskyi

Well done Luokun Zhang Hessam Mehr

Our new preprint on the application of Assembly Theory to solid state materials. arxiv.org/abs/2502.09750

Today we're featuring an Opinion article from Hessam Mehr (Hessam Mehr), discussing digitisation as part of a larger paradigm shift in experimental chemistry. Read the open access article here: doi.org/10.1039/D5DD00…