Read article: Boosting infrared spectroscopy, making complexity a descriptive science, artificial intelligence in medical physics
Our weekly podcast also tackles the thorny issue of graphene standards
Read article: Reality check
Hugh D Reynolds reviews The Case Against Reality: How Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes by Donald D Hoffman
Read article: Growing better single crystals with the help of machine learning
The approach could be an inexpensive and rapid alternative to growing crystals in the laboratory
Read article: Democracy under threat, a mathematician’s perspective
Interview with Karoline Wiesner about complex systems theory to political debates
Read article: Robotics and self-assembly shape up
Recent developments based on novel morphologies and geometries highlight the progress to be made by understanding the balance of freedom and control
Read article: Complex-systems theory could explain why some democracies become unstable
A multidisciplinary team looks at a very timely problem
Read article: Beating Braess’ paradox to prevent instability in electrical power grids
Secondary control could prevent disruption caused by adding new transmission lines
Read article: The one scale that rules them all
Geoffrey West's suggestion – that all complex organisms obey a few simple scaling laws – is rigorous and convincing, says Jennifer Ouellette
Read article: Meet the ‘angulon’, a new quasiparticle found in superfluid helium
Rotating molecule plus surrounding disturbance is particle-like
Read article: Complex interactions: complexity and collective phenomena
Sergio de Régules delves into the world of complexity science and the study of systems that cover multiple scales
