Half a century ago, economic research took a little-noticed yet dramatic departure from the study of concepts most people ...
Knowing only the building blocks of our own biosphere, can we predict how life may exist on other planets? What factors will rein in the Frankensteinian life forms we hope to build in laboratories ...
Half a century ago, economic research took a little-noticed yet dramatic departure from the study of concepts most people might be familiar with from Econ 101. The field shifted from an almost ...
Here we show that the bacterium Escherichia coli exhibits both lineage mortality and immortality. The outcome depends on a whether a balance is achieved between damage accumulation and the asymmetric ...
Leutner, Michael; Caspar Matzhold; Luise Ballach; Carola Deischinger; Jurgen Harnleiter; Stefan Thurner; Peter Klimek and Alexander Kautzky-Willer ...
Bowles, S.,Gintis, H.,Osborne, M.
On December 19, the SFI Press published Volume 4 of Foundational Papers in Complexity Science. Following the publication of ...
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 ...
Organisms that respond quickly to changing environments have an advantage over those that don’t. However, reacting too quickly wastes time and energy in tracking meaningless environmental changes.
Our campus is closed to the public for this event. Abastract: Fundamentals of statistical mechanics explain that systems in thermal equilibrium spend more time in states with greater order because ...