Advances in network science, artificial intelligence, and clinician networks may shift medical decisions from individual doctors to groups—and even AI models—at scale.

To a layperson, technology and biological life may seem like opposite poles. However, the tech industry regularly draws lessons from living organisms, striving to build tools and systems that not only ...

Fifteen years ago as of May 18th, The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves was published. In it, prolific science writer Matt Ridley made clear – with copious evidence – that humanity's condition ...

Researchers from The University of Tokyo have found that single cells in collective chemotaxis act like agents in distributed reinforcement learning, utilizing the environment as an “external memory” ...

Collective intelligence is on the rise—and it is, in fact, much more effective than our individual brains. That’s the main argument that neuroscientist and bestselling author Hannah Critchlow presents ...

There isn’t much we can agree on these days. But two sweeping statements that might garner broad support are “We need to fix technology” and “We need to fix democracy.” There is growing recognition ...

We are immersed in our environment, we are what we are transforming and who is transforming us. We are this individually and collectively. In a group, we often perceive the surface of contained ...