by Debi Lewis | Jan 26, 2026 | Featured, Science Demystified
Why we think Emergence is the Future of Science Science has spent centuries breaking the world into parts. Physics gave us atoms, biology gave us genes, chemistry gave us reactions. Reductionism has been great, useful, and applicable. But it is reaching its limits....
by Raman Lab | Jan 12, 2026 | Featured, Science Demystified
Learning emergence from statistics Published in eLife in 2022 What if we could uncover organizing principles of biology not by cataloguing every gene or molecule, but by learning from the statistical structure of the system itself? In the first paper from our lab we...
by Raman Lab | Jun 5, 2025 | Featured, Science Demystified
Welcome to the Raman Lab. Hello! If you look around our site, you’ll see a lot of different stuff about Biology. But really, we study just one thing. How nature builds complexity. And how we can learn from it. We believe that the most elegant solutions in science...
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