Sometimes ecological data just don’t make sense. The sockeye salmon that spawn in British Columbia’s Fraser River offer a prime example. Scientists have tracked the fishery there since 1948, through ...

Governing equations in the form of ordinary and partial differential equations are valuable models for physical systems. However they can be difficult to derive, making them unknown, particularly for ...

Complex natural systems defy standard mathematical analysis, so one ecologist is throwing out the equations. Sometimes ecological data just don’t make sense. The sockeye salmon that spawn in British ...

The Schrödinger equation rewrote the rules of matter and forever changed the field of chemistry. Donald Truhlar, a chemist at the University of Minnesota, calls it the “greatest advance of the 20th ...

The modern economy is a complex machine. Its job is to allocate limited resources and distribute output among a large number of agents—mainly individuals, firms, and governments—allowing for the ...