When comparing two objects, people either rely on internal memories of these objects or run their hands and eyes over them to ...

SFI External Professor Mason A. Porter (UCLA) has received the 2025 George Pólya Prize for Mathematical Exposition from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) for “his outstanding ...

The oceans teem with photosynthesizing bacteria, tiny-tailed dinoflagellates gobbling other plankton, algae surrounded by intricate glass skeletons. In the 1960s, the ecologist G. Evelyn Hutchinson ...

Scientists are working across disciplines to render complex reality to scientific understanding. It has been the great triumph of the sciences to find consistent means of studying phenomena hidden by ...

...a research institute in Santa Fe that is devoted to the study of complexity in all its forms.

The allocation of discrete, complementary resources is a fundamental problem in economics and of direct interest to e-commerce applications. In this paper we establish that competitive equilibrium ...

Hamilton, M. J.,Davidson, A. D.,Sibly, R. M.,Brown, J. H. Over many millions of years of independent evolution, placental, marsupial and monotreme mammals have ...

Hamilton, M. J.,Lobo, J.,Rupley, E.,Youn, H.,West, G. B. Residential mobility is a key aspect of hunter-gatherer foraging economies and therefore is an issue of central importance in hunter-gatherer ...

Using a simple probabilistic model, we illustrate that a small part of a strongly correlated manybody classical system can show a paradoxical behavior, namely asymptotic stochastic independence. We ...

Scheibye-Alsing, K.,Hoffmann, S.,Frankel, A.,Jensen, P.,Stadler, P. F.,Mang, Y.,Tommerup, N.,Gilchrist, M. J.,Nygard, A. B.,Cirera, S.,Jorgensen, C. B.,Fredholm, M ...

Greenblum, S.,Turnbaugh, P. J.,Borenstein, E. The human microbiome plays a key role in a wide range of host-related processes and has a profound effect on human health. Comparative analyses of the ...