I have long been critical of the World Health Organization's promotion of dubious treatment methods under the banner of "traditional medicine". It now has a global strategy to promote what is calls " ...

LSE Philosophy Professor Roman Frigg recently gave the Giere Memorial Lecture in Philosophy of Science 2026 talking about "Cyclones, Forecasts, and Uncertainty: How Model-Ensembles Can Be an Effective ...

Professor Arthur served as an External Faculty Member at the Santa Fe Institute, an IBM Faculty Fellow, and a Visiting Researcher in the Intelligent Systems Lab at PARC (formerly Xerox PARC). From ...

Space exploration has driven innovation for decades and inspired local scientist Dr. Solange Massa to literally reach for the stars. Massa is the founder and chief executive officer of Ecoatoms, Inc., ...

When a lecturer appeared at the dawn of the 20th century to tell Arkansans about a new religious movement from New England, Gov. Daniel Webster Jones showed up, eager to hear all about it. The speaker ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) - The University of Arizona's College of Science Lecture Series is set to explore the impact of scientific advancements on humanity's future. This year's series, titled "Today's ...

The study of complex systems often involves multiple disciplines, almost by definition as these systems are typically composed of multiple interacting parts at different scales. Consequently, ...

On October 8, 2024, the field of physics was plunged into controversy. That day, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for discoveries not involving black holes, cosmology, or strange new subatomic ...

Convening a global cohort of curious, driven, generous, and brilliant people from across a vast range of expertise and career stages sets the possibility space for SFI’s Complex Systems Summer School, ...

Simple reductionist systems can serve as powerful catalysts for unlocking complex innovations in science and art. The evolution from simplicity to complexity is illustrated by the career journeys of ...

Assembly Theory is a way to understand how the complexity of life emerged through a mechanism of “self-assembly.” It could explain how life formed on Earth—or other planets—via the shortest path to ...