Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The Complexity Science Hub (CSH), an innovative Vienna-based research center established in 2015, just launched a rebranding initiative, highlighting a novel approach to research that focuses more on ...

When making sense of the massive amount of information packed into an ice core, scientists face a forensic challenge: how best to separate the useful information from the corrupt. Tools from ...

The Nature Index tracks primary research articles from 145 natural-science and health-science journals, chosen based on reputation by an independent group of researchers. The Nature Index provides ...

Like most neuroscientists my professional life has been focused on the “easy problem” of consciousness—exploring experimental relationships between brain and mind activity, the so-called consciousness ...

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. --When Isaac Newton formulated the laws of motion during the late 17th century, he had to use the language of geometry to communicate the ideas of differential calculus to ...

A new article lays out three concepts from complex systems science that could advance studies into animal social complexity. From bees to birds to humans, the animal kingdom is full of organisms that ...

In searching for sense in the complexities of nature, science has often found success by identifying common aspects of diverse phenomena. When one principle explains how different things behave, ...

Researchers led by Kenichiro Itami at the RIKEN Pioneering Research Institute (PRI) / RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) have successfully used insects as mini molecule-making ...

One of the big ideas of modern science is that small things can sometimes have huge, irreversible consequences. These so-called tipping points crop up in all walks of life, from economics and finance ...