Mike Gil spies on fish: using novel multi-camera systems and computer vision technology, the TED Fellow and his colleagues explore how coral reef fish behave, socialize and affect their ecosystems. Learn more about how fish of different species communicate…

Nature explores the most-cited research of all time.

Nature - Six experts offer advice on producing a manunoscript that will get published and pull in readers.

I really like computational social science and love to identify myself as a computational social scientist. Having an identity in that sense is perhaps not so important. Through my entire career, I…

Even with no one in charge, army ants work collectively to build bridges out of their bodies. New research reveals the simple rules that lead to such complex group behavior.

The computer scientist Barbara Engelhardt develops machine-learning models and methods to scour human genomes for the elusive causes and mechanisms of disease.

Randomness underlies events that we encounter every day. From the ups and downs of stock prices to the likelihood of winning at gambling, understanding randomness can help us make sense of our experiences and resolve apparent paradoxes. In the first community…

The science of science (SciSci) is based on a transdisciplinary approach that uses large data sets to study the mechanisms underlying the doing of science—from the choice of a research problem to career trajectories and progress within a field. In a Review…

About the programmeOur Visiting PhD Fellowship Programme gives registered doctoral students the opportunity to utilize the resources and facilities at UNU-WIDER for their PhD dissertation or thesis research on developing economies, and to

Are the most successful people in society just the luckiest people?

Kenny Courser and I have been working hard on this paper for months: • John Baez and Kenny Courser, Coarse-graining open Markov processes. It may be almost done. So, it would be great if peopl…