The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...

Human languages are complex phenomena. Around 7,000 languages are spoken worldwide, some with only a handful of remaining speakers, while others, such as Chinese, English, Spanish and Hindi, are ...

Yeat closed out Day 1 of ComplexCon 2025 with surprise appearances from his friends. Throughout the set, he brought out Sheck Wes, Quavo, Sexyy Red, Lil Yachty, and Don Toliver, keeping the crowd on ...

In his laboratory at the University of Poitiers in France, Abderrazak El Albani contemplates the rock glittering in his hands. To the untrained eye, the specimen resembles a piece of golden tortellini ...

Executive coaching is incredibly valuable to leaders, but it can be hard to access at the moment they need it the most. Take a client of mine, “Simon,” a capable and newly promoted executive in a ...

EXCLUSIVE: Amid a resurgence of medical dramas across broadcast and streaming, Amazon is taking a stab at the genre with God Complex. The project, now in development, comes from Found co-showrunner ...

“The purpose of a system is what it does,” British theorist Stafford Beer once observed. For decades, federal and state governments poured tens of billions of dollars into programs to reduce ...

Our situation is more like a tangled rainforest: something alive, interdependent, and impossible to fix with a screwdriver. If you’ve grown numb to the phrase “in these unprecedented times,” you’re ...

Why is untangling two small knots more difficult than unravelling one big one? Surprisingly, mathematicians have found that larger and seemingly more complex knots created by joining two simpler ones ...

Mercifully, Complex in print form is back, this time with a new issue featuring interviews with Travis Scott, Jennie, and more. Below, we take a quick look at what else you can expect from the new ...

Ewan has been a content writer since 2020, and loves nothing more than discussing all things gaming. While he's been playing games all his life, he has a particular interesting in anything even ...

AIs can outperform humans easily on short tasks, but longer ones are the true hurdle to overcome before we can deem them to be truly intelligent systems. When you purchase through links on our site, ...