Schrödinger introduced the term ‘steering’ to describe the ‘spooky action-at-a-distance’ nonlocality apparent in the EPR paradox 1, and pointed out that these states involve a quantum property called ...

Neither living nor non-living, viruses are generally strange. Among viruses, multipartite viruses are among the most peculiar—their genome is not packed into many particles rather than one.

For a virus, a compact genome neatly packaged in a coat of proteins, survival is all about invading a cell, taking over the protein-making machinery to replicate itself and then spreading to other ...

Multipartite viruses have a strange lifestyle. Their genome is split up into different viral particles that, in principle, propagate independently. Completing the replication cycle, however, requires ...