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 ...

The world has gotten a lot smaller over the past century, but the store of knowledge has become unfathomably large. One way to think about it: Last week, I was able to fly across the country in five ...

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 ...

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 ...

Part of “Complexity Theory,” a new column on the tangled questions of our technological age. By some accounts, the western world is experiencing a backlash against the same technologies which have ...

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