Three new papers refute claims for the assembly theory of molecular complexity being claimed as a new "theory of everything." First publicly posited in 2017, assembly theory is a hypothesis concerning ...

Assembly theory bridges the gap between physics and biology in explaining how complex objects are identifiable as products of evolution and how reusability of parts allows novelty and identical ...

In a new book, physicist Sara Walker argues that assembly theory can explain what life is, and even help scientists create new forms of it. Sara Walker, a physicist at Arizona State University, says ...

If we want to understand complex constructions, such as ourselves, assembly theory says we must account for the entire history of how such entities came to be. Life on other worlds — if it exists — ...

The search for life on other planets relies, for lack of a better alternative, on what we know on Earth. However, this situation could make us blind to radically different forms of life, thus limiting ...