The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1950 the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi was discussing the possibility of intelligent alien life with his colleagues. If alien ...

Perhaps you’ve read in a biology textbook that humans have the same number of genes as C. elegans, a worm used in scientific research. Perhaps you’d also like to believe that humans are more complex ...

Visitors to ARTECHOUSE take in an audio-visual installation by the fractal artist Julius Horsthuis. In "Notes on Complexity," Neil Theise proposes that the study of complexity reveals "that however ...

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Abstract: In this article, we propose a fast algorithm to generate a rank-minimized $\mathcal {H}^{2}$ -representation for solving electrically large volume integral equations (VIEs). Unlike existing ...