Ben Fulcher receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council. Complexity is all around us, from the daily fluctuations of financial markets to the intricate web of neurons in our ...

Forensics, the application of scientific methods and principles to enable decision making in criminal cases, has evolved beyond the crime scenes.

Researchers have examined 1.2 million criminal incidents and developed an innovative method to identify patterns in criminal trajectories. Researchers at the Complexity Science Hub have examined 1.2 ...

A lot of ink has been spilled on the question of what will ultimately win: the scientific method, an approach to learning about the world by coming up with theories and testing those theories against ...

A new research project is set to investigate how artificial intelligence is extending and transforming the abilities that scientists use to ...

Innovation has always been an engine of success for companies. However, coming up with novel ideas can be challenging. The process of ideation requires creativity, experimentation and out-of-the-box ...

Early psychology was considered a branch of philosophy that focused on understanding the human soul. In Western philosophy, the word “psychology” is derived from the Greek word “psyche,” meaning ...

Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific publications (many of them can be found at www ...

EFSA said its experts will review the latest evidence on microplastics, including how microplastics enter and affect the human body; how they are transferred into food; and the methods to assess ...