PrefaceThe sophisticated systems woven by modern society, the manuals that treat efficiency as the supreme mandate, and the ...

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 ...

A new historical analysis argues that cognitive science and statistical physics independently converged on a shared ...

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 ...

A new commentary in the journal Aging proposes that measuring behavioral complexity, including movement and physiological rhythms, could provide early markers of declining adaptability and the ...