What We Are Reading Today: The Restless Cell

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Updated 25 August 2024
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What We Are Reading Today: The Restless Cell

Authors: Christina Hueschen & Rob Phillips

In recent decades, the theory of active matter has emerged as a powerful tool for exploring the differences between living and nonliving states of matter.

“The Restless Cell” provides a self-contained, quantitative description of how the continuum theory of matter has been generalized to account for the complex and sometimes counterintuitive behaviors of living materials.


What We Are Reading Today: ‘Physics of the Tropical Atmosphere and Tropical Cyclones’ by Kerry Emanuel

Updated 18 February 2026
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘Physics of the Tropical Atmosphere and Tropical Cyclones’ by Kerry Emanuel

“Physics of the Tropical Atmosphere and Tropical Cyclones” provides readers with a firm grounding in the observations, theory, and modeling of tropical weather systems and tropical cyclones.

How and why do tropical cyclones form? What physics underpins their genesis, intensification, structure, and power?

This authoritative and accessible book tackles these and other questions, providing a unifying framework for understanding most tropical weather systems.