A chair can still look like a chair even when its surface is reduced to a sparse cloud of points. Humans are remarkably good ...

More than a century of psychological research has assumed that, given constrained resources for storing information, learning ...

Human intelligence involves many dimensions: we interact socially, learn quickly from other people, and determine how tasks ...

I do hope that I can visit [The Santa Fe Institute] again in the future -- it seems to me one of the most exciting places on earth.

Galleria mellonella has emerged as an important host for the study of fungal virulence, insect immune responses, and the evaluation of antifungal agents. In this study, we investigated the dynamics of ...

We examine a method introduced by Torsten Carleman a century ago to approximate the solution of non-linear differential systems. His idea consists of replacing the non-linear system with an ...

Body size greatly affects how organisms interact with their environments. However, the macroevolutionary patterns of body size across many major metazoan clades and their constraining mechanisms ...

We consider the problem of evaluating and expanding upon speculative hypotheses about the origin of life. The combination of life's complexity and its potential for historical contingency makes ...

Boonman, Coline C. F.; Selwyn Hoeks; Josep M. Serra-Diaz; Wen-Yong Guo; Brian J. Enquist; Brian Maitner; Cory Merow and Jens-Christian Svenning Tree species worldwide face increasing exposure to ...

We implement a Szilard engine using a 2-bit logical unit consisting of inductively coupled quantum flux parametrons-Josephson-junction superconducting circuits with applications in both the classical ...