A new suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to rewrite notions of time and evolution.

Software has harnessed the advancements of hardware and network capacities, pushing the limits of what is possible—but, while enabling entirely new capabilities, software systems have also grown ...

But continual launches of new products and line extensions add complexity throughout a company’s operations, and as the costs of managing that complexity multiply, margins shrink.

At the same time, security budgets, approaches, and tools have remained static. As complexity rises, the risk of breach accelerates at approximately the same rate.

Balancing Implementation Time, Complexity, Schedule A number of advanced techniques exist that help the design engineer save power but the cost is obviously implementation time, complexity and ...

In today’s rapidly evolving digital world, parents are faced with growing questions about how to provide the best education for their children. One increasingly important factor in education is ...

My fellow bloggingheads John Horgan and George Johnson took some time on their latest science talk to dissect my New York Times article on swarms (you can jump to that section here). John wonders ...