In fields ranging from immunology and ecology to economics and thermodynamics, multi-scale complex systems are ubiquitous. They are also notoriously difficult to model. Conventional approaches take ...

Designing a complex electronic device like a delivery drone involves juggling many choices, such as selecting motors and ...

MIT researchers have developed a new framework for designing complex systems that incorporates uncertainty, potentially ...

The battle today over the future of finance will be digital. Complex system theory tells us that changes will occur in four ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. A few centuries ago, the swirling polychromatic chaos of Jupiter’s atmosphere spawned the immense vortex that we call the Great Red Spot ...

Research on complex nonequilibrium processes and nonlinear dynamics has seen remarkable growth, revealing rich behavior across classical and quantum ...

From the perspective of complex systems, the study reveals the universality, specificity, and explanatory power of underlying rules governing urban system evolution. An international team from the ...

Researchers have proposed a "missing" scientific law for the evolution of life, minerals, planets, stars and pretty much everything else in the universe. This new law identifies "universal concepts of ...