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 ...

Assembly Theory is a way to understand how the complexity of life emerged through a mechanism of “self-assembly.” It could explain how life formed on Earth—or other planets—via the shortest path to ...

We need to consider poverty as a complex situation if aid is to save lives in the 21st century, says Ben Ramalingam in Aid on the Edge of Chaos “EXCUSE me friends I must catch my jet, I’m off to join ...

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 ...

Algebraic complexity addresses the fundamental question of how efficiently one can compute polynomials and related algebraic objects. It employs models such as arithmetic circuits, branching ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The event's organizers asked a few professors ...