As a physicist I was taught to boil down every complex problem to its most basic, simple, and solvable elements. It was a strategy I totally embraced. While this reductio ad absurdum approach has made ...

The power grid is an example of a network connected to other networks, such as telecommunications, travel and the economy. Researchers at UC Davis and Caltech are studying how surprising and complex ...

Uri Wilensky of Northwestern University’s Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling Department observed the world has a variety of natural or emergent phenomena consisting of patterns, ...

Physicists have long treated mass as a basic ingredient of nature, something particles simply possess, even as the Higgs mechanism explained only part of the story. A new wave of theoretical work now ...