Reductionism is the basis for most science. Since so many factors can be involved, isolating them in a lab-bench experiment can yield valuable insights. For epidemiological studies, it doesn’t work as ...

This is the fourth in a series of posts whose central scientific point is stated as a conclusion, not a question like the title above. We seem, in the biosphere, to be beyond Newton, beyond Laplace, ...

India, Oct. 29 -- With the fast-growing trend of democratization of forestry coupled with the commodification of forest produce and apparent undermining of eco-services that are often difficult to ...

The idea of reductionism holds that the nature of complex things can always be reduced to simpler, more fundamental ideas. In contrast, Tim O'Reilly's now-famous meme-map of Web 2.0 is a terrific ...

Researchers Increasingly Rely on Holistic Studies to Obtain Greater Insights on Health and Disease For more than a decade, systems biology has grown rapidly, mainly in academic labs. It is now ...

Reductionism breaks the world into elementary building blocks. Emergence finds the simple laws that arise out of complexity. These two complementary ways of viewing the universe come together in ...