Bioengineers at Queen Mary University of London have taken a significant step forward in the development of laboratory-based models of human tissues that may be used as alternatives to animal testing.

In recent years, network and complexity science has seen a massive surge in models using hypergraphs and simplicial complexes to represent higher-order ...

In social science, formal and quantitative models, ranging from ones that describe economic growth to collective action, are used to formulate mechanistic explanations of the observed phenomena, ...

What is the appropriate place for science in society? Despite the vast literature on the subject, the science–society relation remains a disputed issue. A major reason is that, when we are asking ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has made tremendous progress since its inception, and neural networks are usually part of that advancement. Neural networks that apply weights to variables in AI models ...

In 1972, the report Limits to Growth showed that business as usual on a planet with limited resources and a rapidly expanding human population can only end up in unsustainable growth and collapse. The ...