In many real-world systems, such as fireflies flashing, Japanese tree frogs croaking, magnetic Janus particles, neurons firing, and in various engineered systems like drone swarms and wireless sensor ...

Biological systems are inherently complex. Identifying patterns in biological systems is a daunting, time consuming endeavor. Biomedical engineers at Duke University have created a novel artificial ...

Another theory held that the forces between two particles falls off exponentially in direct relationship to the distance between two particles and that the factor by which it drops is not dependent on ...

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 ...

It is an underappreciated irony that talking about complex systems is difficult. “There is no clear definition of complex systems,” says Kunihiko Kaneko, a physicist at the University of Tokyo. “But ...