Analysing human societies as complex systems can provide an insight into historical processes and the strengths and weaknesses of capitalism. Complex systems theory is a scientific theory coming out ...

Emoji are a great way to express yourself. Through Simulating the World, the latest interactive web toy by artist Nicky Case, they’re more than just cute stickers. They become a tool for thinking ...

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 ...

The area of information processing and computing is highly fractionalized. It covers sub-fields in machine learning, neuroscience, physics, mathematics, computer science, engineering, biology, social ...

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 ...

Systems theory was not originally a business theory. Indeed, systems theory was proposed in the 1940s by biologist Ludwig von Bertalanffy, say Francis Heylighen and Cliff Joslyn in their article, ...

In geopolitical terms, catastrophe theory explains the breaks in world order—the sudden realignments that redefine history. Chaos theory, by contrast, explains the turbulence that precedes and follows ...