A new paper in PNAS shows that the idea of “taking turns” could help resolve the 1960s paradox of the plankton — and better ...

Abstract: Deterministic Turing machines and their associated complexity measures, by construction, cannot capture the complexity of the output of stochastic processes - like those in the real world.

This brief essay reviews an approach to defining and then detecting the emergence of complexity in nonlinear processes. It is, in fact, a synopsis of Reference [1] that leaves out the technical ...

Predicting how ecological communities will respond to disturbances is notoriously challenging, especially given the variability in species' responses within the same community. Focusing solely on ...

Chen, Renfei; Suping Xiao; Chuancong Dong; Shubin Xie; Liang Zhang; Fan Wu; Chengyi Tu; Quan-Xing Liu; Shaopeng Wang; Ulo Niinemets; Alan Hastings; Karl J. Niklas and ...

The computation of reliable, chemically correct atom maps from educt/product pairs has turned out to be a difficult problem in cheminformatics because the chemically correct solution is not ...

Laurent Hébert-DufresneAssociate Professor of Computer Science at The Vermont Complex Systems Center, professeur associé au Département de physique, l'Université Laval Hiroki SayamaProfessor of ...

Earth's forests are continually monitored by both the satellite record and the lived experiences of nearly 2 billion forest-proximate peoples. Generally, the satellite record summarizes production ...

The importance of asymptomatic transmission was a key discovery in our efforts to study and intervene in the COVID-19 pandemic. In Asymptomatic (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024), Joshua Weitz ...

Talk 3 + discussion: The fitness value of information as a unifying framework Ryan McGee, Joey Bernhart, Mary Oconnor, Cynthia Downs ...

Stephanie ForrestDirector of Biodesign Center for Biocomputing, Security and Society at ASU, SFI External Professor ...

We present a theory of belief dynamics that explains the interplay between internal beliefs in people's minds and beliefs of others in their external social environments. The networks of belief theory ...