Summary:
- This article discusses the discovery that environmental interactions can create "quantum-like coherence" in chemical reactions, which means that the reactions behave in a quantum-mechanical way.
- The researchers found that this quantum-like behavior can emerge from the complex interactions between a molecule and its surrounding environment, even in warm, wet, and noisy biological conditions.
- This finding has important implications for understanding how quantum effects may play a role in biological processes, such as photosynthesis and other energy-conversion reactions in living organisms.