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 ...

When building a model rocket, it can be fun to get into the maths of it all—calculating the expected performance of your build, and then seeing how it measures up in the real world. To aid in ...

A simple view of interacting neurons has a lot in common with an Ising model of magnetic spins. For one thing, neurons are often modeled as basically binary on-off switches; they either fire or they ...

Even ordinary actions, like tossing a tennis ball, can be extraordinarily complex to calculate. The trick is knowing what to leave out.

The standard model of particle physics is often illustrated as a simple grid showing the 17 basic particles (shown above). But an alternative way of visualising it reveals the complex rules that ...

The Standard Model is our best theory for how the universe operates, but there are some missing pieces that physicists are struggling to find.

Using a simple physics-based model for testing, they attributed the phenomenon to seasonal changes in incoming solar radiation, or sunlight.

Climate models are complex, just like the world they mirror. They simultaneously simulate the interacting, chaotic flow of Earth's atmosphere and oceans, and they run on the world's largest ...

Written in clear, engaging language, the book traces the arc from ancient Greek atomic theory to today's Standard Model of particle physics. It's part physics textbook, part history of science ...