When scientists test algorithms that sort or classify data they often turn to a trusted tool called Normalized Mutual ...

Theories of neural computation underlying learning, imagination and reasoning: of mice, monkeys and machines ... Abstract: TBA ...

Abstract: Although cancers are often recognized as heterogeneous at later stages, recent evidence shows that this variability emerges much earlier: even the smallest lesions can diverge dramatically ...

Dodds has co-organized a working group aimed at moving “Towards a Data-Driven Science of Stories.” From December 10–12, computer scientists, folklorists, physicists, marketing experts, cognitive ...

How much risk is any individual willing to take on? That depends, in part, on their individual resources and environment, ...

A recent special issue of Philosophical Transactions B takes on one of the biggest mysteries in science: how life first began. Instead of trying to replay Earth’s exact history, the issue’s authors ...

Global markets are complex systems, shaped by feedback loops, sudden shocks, and adaptive behavior that rarely follow textbook rules and that can’t be captured by neat equations. At its core, ...

In a recent op-ed in PNAS, SFI External Professor Michael Hochberg and co-author Paul Rainey explore whether deepening interdependence between humans and AI could lead to a new form of evolutionary ...

It might start as a joke, a belief, or a rumor. At first, it’s easy to dismiss. But then it gains a twist, builds momentum, and spreads like wildfire. What causes some ideas to die out while others ...

In a network, pairs of individual elements, or nodes, connect to each other; those connections can represent a sprawling system with myriad individual links. A hypergraph goes deeper: It gives ...