Systems/Chaos/Pattern Formation/Complexity

Physics professor applies tools of statistical mechanics to explain why basic ordered patterns emerge in music across time and culturesCredit: Jesse Berezovsky/Case Western Reserve University CLEVELAND--Next time you listen to a favorite…

Computer scientist at the University of Göttingen develops automated process for finding outCredit: Patrick Harms Virtual Reality and the virtual world are taking over more and more areas of our lives. This means that it is really…

Researchers have identified how the human brain is able to determine the properties of a particular object using purely statistical information: a result which suggests there is an 'inner pickpocket' in all of us. The researchers, from…

Featuring researcher and Executive Director of the American Statistical Association, Ron WassersteinCredit: Monchu 'Statistical significance' is one of the most widely misunderstood phrases in science, according to a 2013 Scientific…

Journal of Applied Ecology: Adjusting for generation time errors yields a more accurate view of extinction timelinesCredit: Johanna Staerk et al. (2019) Accurately predicting whether, and when, a species may go extinct has never been more…

Researchers have developed a new framework for deep neural networks that allows artificial intelligence (AI) systems to better learn new tasks while "forgetting" less of what it has learned regarding previous tasks. The researchers have…

Credit: SUTD Blockchain technology has been considered as the most revolutionizing invention since the Internet. Due to its immutable nature and the associated security and privacy benefits, it has widely attracted the attention of banks,…

Two UC Santa Barbara physics professors are elected to the National Academy of Sciences Two UC Santa Barbara physics professors -- Cristina Marchetti and Leon Balents -- are among the newest members of the National Academy of Sciences…

A new type of money that allows users to make decisions based on information arriving at different locations and times, and that could also protect against attacks from quantum computers, has been proposed by a researcher at the…

A new way to store information in molecules could preserve the contents of the New York Public Library in a teaspoon of protein, without energy, for millions of years Books can burn. Computers get hacked. DVDs degrade. Technologies to…