Exhaustive Analysis Answers Long-Standing Question About Cell Division

After exploring every possible correlation, researchers shed new light on a long-standing question about what triggers cell division.
4-Nov-2018 9:00 PM EST Add to Favorites

New Definition Returns Meaning to Information

Identifying meaningful information is a key challenge to disciplines from biology to artificial intelligence. In a new paper, Santa Fe Institute researchers propose a broadly applicable, fully formal definition for this kind of semantic information.
22-Oct-2018 11:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Social Animals Have Tipping Points, Too

Quantitative tools developed in math and physics to understand bifurcations in dynamical systems could help ecologists and biologists better understand -- and predict -- tipping points in animal societies.
18-Sep-2018 3:00 PM EDT Add to Favorites

E. coli’s Adaptation to Extreme Temperatures Helps Explain Resistance to Certain Drugs

A new study suggests that defenses against extreme temperatures give E. coli bacteria an advantage in fending off certain drugs. The work could help doctors administer antibiotics in a more precise way.
17-Sep-2018 4:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Theory, meet Empiry

It may seem that there isn't much cross-discussion between theoretical and empirical scientists, but a new cross-citation network analysis shows there is more overlap than many believe. 
22-Aug-2018 12:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

New Algorithm Limits Bias in Machine Learning

To prevent bias in hiring and other contexts, researchers present an algorithm that imposes a fairness constraint on machine learning.
17-Jul-2018 1:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Cooler computing through statistical physics?

Recent breakthroughs in the field of nonequilibrium statistical physics have revealed opportunities to advance the "thermodynamics of computation," a field that could have far-reaching consequences for how we understand, and engineer, our computers.
20-Jun-2018 11:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

'Institution Shocks' Spotlight Effects of Changing Economic Institutions

Researchers analyzed new data on the Chilean elections of the 1970s to understand how economies react to institutional change.
1-May-2018 3:55 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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