Pick a pen up off of your desk, hold it about a foot above the flat surface, and then let it drop. It hits the surface, and despite the fact that quantum mechanics suggest that there is a (very) small ...

One hundred and ninety-nine years after Charles Darwin was born, and 149 years after he published On the Origin of Species, some scientists say that the theory of evolution is due for a revision. Not ...

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Complexity theory is needed for a better understanding and management of financial-economic crises, according to a new article. The article, which is authored by an interdisciplinary group of ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. They say a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, but for computer scientists, two birds in a hole are better still. That’s because ...

Various crises have revealed that leaders’ decision-making roles have become more intense. shutterstock Universities are complex, dynamic organisations which must adapt in ways that aren’t always ...

Many mathematical puzzles in everyday life, like estimating travel time or making a budget, are straightforward. The building blocks that we learn as children — addition, subtraction, multiplication, ...

Complexity theory reconceptualises cities as multifaceted systems whose collective behaviour arises from myriad local interactions among agents, infrastructures and environments. Rather than viewing ...

Part of “Complexity Theory,” a new column on the tangled questions of our technological age. One of my biggest sources of joy in life is satisfying my intellectual curiosity. I feel almost certain ...

An international team of researchers has developed a new theoretical framework that bridges physics and biology to provide a unified approach for understanding how complexity and evolution emerge in ...