Planeloads of negotiators and too little time: US and Iran’s 21 hours of talks

The two sides turned up to test one another’s resolve. It was probably unrealistic to expect a dispute that has taken up years of discussion to be settled in one marathon session ...

Court rules in favor of 4 men deported by the US to Africa and denied lawyer meetings for 9 months

The Supreme Court in Eswatini has ruled that four men deported by the U.S. under a third-country program can finally meet ...
IEEE

A Practical Approach to Morse-Smale Complex Computation: Scalability and Generality

Abstract: The Morse-Smale (MS) complex has proven to be a useful tool in extracting and visualizing features from scalar-valued data. However, efficient computation of the MS complex for large scale ...
Nature

Unravelling complex biology through big data and AI

Biology is mind-bogglingly complex. Even simple biological systems are made up of a huge number of components that interact with one another in complicated ways. Furthermore, systems vary in both ...
IEEE

The Problem of Social Control and Coordination of Complex Systems in Sociology: A Look at the Community Cleavage Problem

Abstract: The coordination and control of social systems is the foundational problem of sociology. The discipline was established in Europe in the aftermath of the American and French Revolutions.