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Is it harder to choose between four flavours of jam, or two different electricity plans?
A mathematician explains how language can keep your online accounts safe and pinpoint your location on the planet.
Part of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for work modeling Earth’s climate using its chaotic, complex weather. To scientists, chaos lies in the gray zone between randomness and predictability.
The game is a fantastic metaphor for understanding how extinctions cause ecosystems to become more fragile.
In a time of populism and political polarization, children and young adults need to learn to think critically, with complexity and nuance. History, as a subject, is more important than ever.
Researchers identified simple behavioral rules that allow these tiny creatures to collaboratively build elaborate structures, with no one in charge.
Biologists only really started to use maths in the last few decades.
Machines are taking over many human tasks but what happens when something goes wrong? Would humans still have the skills to react and prevent a tragedy?
Humans have limited ability to understand complexity, but there are serious dangers if we oversimplify things too much.
Diverse threads of the vast interrogation of nature we call science are coming together in a rich and mutually informative intellectual tapestry.
Big data studies often use easily available user-generated data from the Internet. Researchers assume that this data offers a window into reality. It doesn’t necessarily.
In part nine of our multi-disciplinary Millennium Project series, Cliff Hooker argues that to get any better at decision-making, we must first face up to our limitations. Global challenge 9: How can the…
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Laureate Professor, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
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Associate Professor in the Department of Finance and co-director of the Brain, Mind & Markets Laboratory, The University of Melbourne
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Director of the Complex Adaptive Systems Research Group, University of Newcastle
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Adjunct Professor, Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University
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Professor of Information Technology, Monash University
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Professor of Philosophy of Science, Durham University
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Senior Lecturer in Mathematical Biology, University of Bath
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Professor of Anthropology, The Ohio State University
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Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering and Co-Director of the Center for Biologically Inspired Design, Georgia Institute of Technology
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Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Education, University of New Brunswick
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Assistant Professor of Complex Systems, University of Michigan
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Professor of Ecology and Conservation, Newcastle University
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PhD Candidate, Department of Philosophy, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Mathematics, Rochester Institute of Technology
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PhD Candidate in Decision Science, Centre for Brain, Mind and Markets, The University of Melbourne
