In many careers, a person must learn foundational skills before advancing deeper into their profession. A recent paper in ...

Aiming to chart a more sustainable path for governing our nation’s grid, representatives spanning physics, law, energy regulation, economics, and even evolutionary dynamics is meeting April 9–11 at ...

Policies designed to promote green behavior can backfire. “Imagine a policy that banned cars in cities. People might start biking more, reducing carbon emissions. But many would feel a loss of freedom ...

To avoid the unintended consequences of climate policy, we need to better understand how climate policies and people’s values coevolve. A recent working group led by Katrin Schmelz and Sam Bowles met ...

Fox, S. J.,Miller, J. C.,Meyers, L. A. Influenza pandemics can emerge unexpectedly and wreak global devastation. However, each of the six pandemics since 1889 emerged in the Northern Hemisphere just ...

In several of our recent experiments (Herrnstein, Prelec, & Vaughan, 1986), subjects made choices in a way that supports the idea that choice is governed, either sometimes or always, by a principle ...

Background: In the absence of horizontal gene transfer it is possible to reconstruct the history of gene families from empirically determined orthology relations, which are equivalent to event-labeled ...

Recent laboratory experiments suggest that a molecule's ability to evolve neutrally is important for its ability to generate evolutionary innovations. In contrast to laboratory experiments, life ...

Decelle, A.,Krzakala, F.,Moore, C.,Zdeborova, L. In this paper we extend our previous work on the stochastic block model, a commonly used generative model for social and biological networks, and the ...

Hoffmann, S.,Stadler, P. F.,Strimmer, K. Background: Several sources of noise obfuscate the identification of single nucleotide variation (SNV) in next generation sequencing data. For instance, errors ...