In 1972, the report Limits to Growth showed that business as usual on a planet with limited resources and a rapidly expanding human population can only end up in unsustainable growth and collapse. The ...

A Stanford-led study reveals that rather than evolving gradually over hundreds of millions of years, land plants underwent major diversification in two dramatic bursts, 250 million years apart. The ...

In recent years, network and complexity science has seen a massive surge in models using hypergraphs and simplicial complexes to represent higher-order ...

Despite learning that climate change is hitting the planet faster than scientists predicted, society has been slow to decrease the use of fossil fuels and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Making the ...

The Nature Index tracks primary research articles from 145 natural-science and health-science journals, chosen by an independent group of researchers. The Nature Index provides absolute Count of ...

Earlier posts focused on the “easy problem” of consciousness—finding relationships between mental activity and the dynamic patterns measured with various brain imaging methods. This new post advances ...

This blog is a continuation of the Building AI Leadership Brain Trust Blog Series which targets board directors and CEO’s to accelerate their duty of care to develop stronger skills and competencies ...

[Vienna, May 6 2024] — In collaboration with its partner universities, the Complexity Science Hub (CSH) is launching the Digital Innovation School in Vienna, Austria. Starting in the fall, the Digital ...

A Perspective suggests that “digital twins” are not simply tools for science but are an example of the integration of complexity science and data science into a new scientific field. A “digital twin” ...

A new method for quantifying plant evolution reveals that after the onset of early seed plants, complexity halted for 250 million years until the diversification of flowering plants about 100 million ...