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Science Demystified
Welcome to our blog: Science Demystified.
Here, you’ll find stories from the Raman Lab regarding science (biology, computation, and beyond), updates on our research, and our thoughts on ongoing trends that scientists and others find interesting. You’ll also find big-picture ideas, early sparks of discovery, and sometimes the behind-the-scenes look at lab life.
Whether you’re a scientist, a student, or just curious, this blog hopes to make the frontier of discovery a little closer to home. And a lot more exciting.
What if computation isn’t about FLOPS at all?
Every year, computers get faster, bigger, and hungrier for power. (Or they become faster, cheaper, and smaller depending on how you look at it.) Regarding larger...
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,...
Introducing the Spectral Tree: A new geometry of evolutionary diversity
Published in Cell Systems in 2025 What shape does biological diversity take? For centuries, evolutionary biology has answered this with the tree—a metaphor for descent...
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...
Why funding ‘Complexity Science’ matters now more than ever
Science thrives on curiosity, persistence, and the willingness to ask difficult questions. But science also requires something more practical: funding. At the Raman...
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...