Read article: In real-world social networks, your enemy’s enemy is indeed your friend, say physicists
New work validates key elements of balance theory put forward nearly 80 years ago
Read article: Turbulence to harmony: can physics help detoxify social media?
Physical principles help reveal why heated online polarization emerges – and could point to solutions
Read article: The laws of division: physicists probe into the polarization of political opinions
Anna Demming digs into the physics of political polarization
Read article: Giorgio Parisi: the Nobel-prize winner whose complex interests stretch from spin glasses to starlings
Philip Ball reviews In a Flight of Starlings: the Wonder of Complex Systems by Giorgio Parisi
Read article: Celebrating the complexity Nobel prize with perspectives on the future of the field
Collection includes an exclusive interview with Nobel laureate Giorgio Parisi
Read article: Complex systems approaches to information processing
The IOP Publishing journal JPhys Complexity, explores the role that complex systems science play in connecting information processing and computing
Read article: Physics tracks changes in English dialects, machine learning confused by COVID-19
This podcast also looks back on an exciting week in astronomy
Read article: Frequency and distance of human travel follows universal pattern, mobile-phone data reveals
Researchers discover "universal visitation law of human mobility"
Read article: An uncertain growth
Susan Curtis reviews Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities by Vaclav Smil
Read article: Boosting infrared spectroscopy, making complexity a descriptive science, artificial intelligence in medical physics
Our weekly podcast also tackles the thorny issue of graphene standards
