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 ...

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, ...

Physicists know about the huge chasm between quantum physics and the theory of gravity. However, in recent decades, theoretical physics has provided some plausible conjecture to bridge this gap and to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hello! I'm Turbo!While working as a social studies teacher at a public high school, I also work as a parallel worker, serving ...

Complexity theory remains one of the great unsolved mathematical puzzles. Kenneth Regan is trying to figure it out. Kenneth Regan paused at lunch in New York to glance at incoming texts from top ...

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