A new study by physicists and neuroscientists from the University of Chicago, Harvard and Yale describes how connectivity among neurons comes about through general principles of networking and ...

There's a problem with the field of high-energy physics, and it's the biggest one imaginable. On the one hand, we have the Standard Model of particle physics: a quantum field theory that describes the ...

Spin glasses might turn out to be the most useful useless things ever discovered. These materials — which are typically made of metal, not glass — exhibit puzzling behaviors that captivated a small ...

Michael Gastner and Kota Ishida at Yale-NUS College in Singapore have studied the voter model – a simple description of opinion formation and dynamics. They used the model to investigate social ...