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Heat may spark world food crisis

Half the world's population could face food crisis by 2100 as soaring temperatures cripple staple crops, scientists warn.

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Poetry or science?

Is romantic love just a chemical cocktail?

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Beagle hunter

On a mission to find the most famous ship of science

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A deep-sea fish caught in the Pacific has mirrors for eyes

A deep-sea fish caught in the Pacific has eyes which use mirrors as well as lenses, scientists discover.

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Everest trip helps critically ill

Blood oxygen levels recorded on a trip by medics to Everest could help the treatment of critically ill patients.

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Animal matters

Scotland's debate over tests on primates

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Black holes 'preceded galaxies'

Astronomers believe they have solved a cosmic chicken-and-egg question: what came first - black holes or galaxies?

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Mosquitoes make sweet love music

Sexy songs sung by mosquitoes in courtship could be key to curbing the spread of dengue fever, say scientists.

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Earth Watch

Why it is hard to predict sudden environmental crises

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Mummy of female pharaoh uncovered

Egyptologists find remains of a mummy thought to belong to a queen who ruled 4,300 years ago, Egypt's antiquities chief announced.

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Tech fair offers greener vision

Analysts at the Consumer Electronics Show say green credentials of tech products will become critical to success.

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Canadians claim South Pole record

A trio of Canadians claim a new record for the fastest trek across Antarctica to the South Pole.

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Panda bites his third tourist in two years at Beijing zoo

A panda at Beijing zoo bites a man for the third time in two years.

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China alert over bird flu death

Chinese authorities shut down and clean poultry markets in Hebei province, after the first human death in nearly a year.

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Zimbabwe troops 'eat elephants'

A Zimbabwean wildlife campaigner tells the BBC that soldiers are being given elephant meat to eat, as the economic crisis deepens.

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US vows 'huge' marine protection

The US is to establish "the largest area of protected sea in the world", banning fishing and mining, around its Pacific islands.

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First flight of algae-fuelled jet

Continental Airlines is the latest to test fly a jet biofuel, this time with a product derived partially from algae.

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Baby Jupiter's huge weight gain

The planet Jupiter must have gained mass fast during its infancy, according to astronomers.

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Holes give edge to new armour

Scientists from the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) have devised ultra-hard vehicle armour to protect military personnel.

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Venomous mammal caught on camera

Rare footage of one of the world's most strange and elusive mammals is captured by scientists.

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'Wolfman' returns

Explorer Jim McNeill tracks down Arctic wolves

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Body repair 'could be ramped up'

A combination of drugs could trick the body into sending its repair mechanisms into overdrive, say scientists.

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Eat it or lose it - why centuries of crop diversity are at risk

Centuries of crop diversity are at risk of being lost forever as farmers turn to just a few modern, high yielding varieties.

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Feilden's blog

Ground-breaking new technique in stem cell science

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Complex Systems:

ACE studies, Iowa State University, USA

Agent-based computational economics.

http://www.econ.iastate.edu/tesfatsi/

Graand

Free Classified Ads Portal

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The Complexity and Artificial Life Research Concept for Self-Organizing Systems

attractors, artificial life, cellular automata, fractals, genetic algorithms, neural networks ..

http://www.calresco.org/

Complex Systems

A weblog and hub for the field of complex systems. Covers the science, engineering, history, and philosophy.

http://www.complexityblog.com

Debate on Complexity,

How can complexity theory reshape the way scholars examine evolution, economics, and many other fields?

http://chronicle.com/colloquylive/2001/05/complexity/

Dissipative systems DYNAMICS

Dynamics and bifurcations of patterns in dissipative systems.

http://www.math.colostate.edu/~juliana/DynBifPat.html

Dynamical Complexity and Regularity

Dynamic laws are classified and conjecture that the regular laws cannot produce organic structures is discussed. [PDF]

http://www.iscid.org/papers/Johns_DynamicalComplexity_020102.pdf

Links on Complexity, Self-organization and Artificial Life

A collection of annotated links.

http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/COMSELLI.html

MoneyScience Financial Intelligence Network

An open-access resource for academics and practitioners working in finance and economics, physics, applied mathematics and computing.

http://www.moneyscience.com/

The New Artificial Life (Alife) Database

A searchable database of artificial life-related sites.

http://www.aridolan.com/ad/adb/adtop.html

Omega Field Network

Papers on agent based modeling, stochastic processes, scale-free networks, holography, synchronization, and consciousness.

http://www.omegafield.net/

Principia Cybernetica

Review of the Principia Cybernetica Project (long paper by F. Heylighen, 2000) [PDF]

http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/Papers/PCPworldview-FOS.pdf

Principia Cybernetica Project

A world-wide organization collaboratively developing a computer-supported evolutionary-systemic philosophy, in the context of the transdisciplinary academic fields of systems science and cybernetics.

http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/

Principia Cybernetica Web

Tackle age-old philosophical questions with the cybernetic theories.

http://pcp.lanl.gov/

Self-organization and complex systems

Interview with Stuart Kauffman, MacArthur fellow, transcribed by ISCID.

http://www.iscid.org/stuartkauffman-chat.php

Society for Chaos Theory on Psychology and Life Sciences (SCTPLS)

News, tutorials, data library, and information on conferences.

http://www.societyforchaostheory.org/

Stochastic Methods in Coagulation and Fragmentation

EuroWorkshop in association with the programme on 'Interaction and Growth in Complex Stochastic Systems'. Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK; 8--12 December 2003.

http://www.newton.ac.uk/programmes/IGS/igsw04.html

Traffic Science Forum

Systems of interacting vehicles on a highway

http://vwitme011.vkw.tu-dresden.de/TrafficForum/

turbor - turbulence and complex emergencies

Research on turbulence, both in natural and man-made complex systems

http://www.turbor.net

Dr. Dobbs' Journal - The Science of Complexity

Introductory article with computer program samples. (2002)

http://www.ddj.com/architect/184405169

MoneyScience WebJournal Article Feed

MoneyScience WebJournal promotes new developments in interdisciplinary research through commentary, reviews and discussion and includes conference announcements and calls-for-papers. [RSS]

http://moneyscience.org/tiki/tiki-articles_rss.php