New research from the Complexity Science Hub (CSH) shows why widely used algorithms for measuring economic complexity produce trustworthy results and how these tools may benefit diverse areas such as ...

What governs the speed at which raindrops fall, sediment settles in river estuaries, and matter is ejected during a supernova? These questions circle around one, deceitfully simple factor: the rate at ...

A physicist proposes that consciousness is the fundamental basis of reality, with matter and spacetime emerging from it.

Shaped by a different biology or culture, other intelligent civilisations – if they’re out there – might understand the ...

The British-American theoretical physicist Anthony Leggett died on 8 March at the age of 87. Leggett shared the 2003 Nobel ...

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Over 8,000 people explored hands-on science experiments, from robotic arms to liquid nitrogen ice cream, at CSU's Little Shop of Physics open house.

Because of years of practice, the players who astonish us game after game make these micro-calculations at an unconscious level. In a fraction of a second, their eyes assess all the variables, and ...

The physics behind shoe squeaks is surprisingly complex. Phil Roeder via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 2.0. As illustrated by the High School Musical song “Get’cha Head in the ...

Bio: Seemantini Nadkarni is an Associate Professor at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School with over 20 years of experience in innovating ...