Lab experiments suggest that a strange synchronization of pendulum clocks observed in the 1600s can be chalked up to acoustic energy. By Jesse Emspak.

Orthodox economics is broken. Applying what we know about evolution, ecology and collective behaviour might help us avoid another catastrophe. By Kate Douglas

Could the dark matter in the universe be a giant data center?

Classical physics, with its totally determinative, forward-in-time, billiard-ball causation, requires sweeping anomalies like psi under the rug, not to mention resigning ourselves to an absence of higher meaning and direction in the universe. Even the local islands of order allowed within the framework of dynamical systems theory... By Eric Wargo.

Standard evolutionary theories of aging and mortality, being based on mean-field assumptions – which analyze the behavior of large and complex stochastic models by studying a simpler model – conclude that programmed mortality resulting from natural selection is impossible. Recently, however...

A researcher at Indiana University has developed a new mathematical [graph theoretic] framework to more effectively analyze.

Using a pioneering digitization project that maps out details of life in the ancient world, classics Professor Josiah Ober links the democratic politics and surprisingly robust economy of classical Greek society.

When it comes to treating pain and chronic disease, many doctors are turning to treatments like acupuncture and meditation—but using them as part of a larger, integrative approach to health. 

As the dreams of Silicon Valley fill our world, could the dowdy historian Arnold Toynbee help prevent a nightmare? By Ian Beacock.

I'm sure most of my readers have heard at least a little of the hullabaloo surrounding the release of Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si...

Experiments in evolution are exploring what would happen if we rewound the tape of life. (2014)

The push to build a new kind of tower has begun.

When we build complex technologies, despite our best efforts and our desire for clean logic, they often end up being far messier than we intend. They often end up kluges: inelegant solutions that work just well enough...

The systems theorist explains what’s wrong with standard models of intelligence.