Leutner, Michael; Caspar Matzhold; Luise Ballach; Carola Deischinger; Jurgen Harnleiter; Stefan Thurner; Peter Klimek and Alexander Kautzky-Willer ...

Here we show that the bacterium Escherichia coli exhibits both lineage mortality and immortality. The outcome depends on a whether a balance is achieved between damage accumulation and the asymmetric ...

Half a century ago, economic research took a little-noticed yet dramatic departure from the study of concepts most people ...

Extraterrestrial and artificial life have long captivated the human mind. Knowing only the building blocks of our own biosphere, can we predict how life may exist on other planets? What factors will ...

As city population grows, so does violent crime, contagious diseases, and per-capita GDP. A significant body of research has investigated what drives this scaling relationship, examining factors ...

On December 19, the SFI Press published Volume 4 of Foundational Papers in Complexity Science. Following the publication of Volumes 1 and 2 in May and Volume 3 in September, this concluding book ...

The SFI Press endeavors to make available the best of complexity science quickly and affordably, to provide a distillation of discussions, debates, and meetings across a wide range of topics. To ...

For nearly a century, scientists from a diverse set of fields have been captured by questions about the origins of life. How did life, in all of its complexity, arise from comparatively simple matter?

This paper formally defines tipping points as a discontinuity between current and future states of a system and introduces candidate measures of when a system tips based on changes in the probability ...

We show that all algorithms that search for an extremum of a cost function perform exactly the same, when averaged over all possible cost functions. In particular, if algorithm A outperforms algorithm ...

Throughout scientific research, measured time series are the basis for characterizing an observed system and for predicting its future behavior. A number of new techniques (such as state-space ...