“The theoretical framework we developed explains how quasiparticles emerge in systems with an extremely heavy impurity, ...

For the first time, researchers in China have accurately quantified how chaos increases in a quantum many-body system as it evolves over time. Combining experiments and theory, a team led by Yu-Chen ...

An earthquake typically sets off ruptures that ripple out from its underground origins. But on rare occasions, seismologists ...

For decades, scientists have believed that complex life began when two very different microbes joined forces, eventually ...

Why Information, Not Matter, May Be the True Foundation of Reality - Rethinking Reality Through Physics, Information, ...

The Economy as an Evolving Complex System IV, published by the SFI Press in February 2026, is the latest in a series originally launched nearly four decades ago to rethink economics through the lens ...

In order to build the computers and devices of tomorrow, we have to understand how they use energy today. That's harder than ...

Human intelligence wasn’t a cosmic evolutionary fluke, some scientists say. The case against cosmic loneliness is growing.

A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, scientists say.

Self-compassion often fails after complex trauma, not because it is wrong, but because survival comes first. Attunement is the verb that builds safety before kindness is possible.

Scientists propose that eukaryotes formed when an Asgard archaeon entered into a close partnership with an alphaproteobacterium. Over time, the two organisms became permanently linked. The ...

But some things never change – and now, in a couple of caves in the high desert of Oregon, we’ve found the earliest evidence ...