A simple model developed by a RIKEN researcher and a collaborator predicts the emergence of self-organized institutions that ...

A simple mathematical model can account for lizard’s green-and-black pattern Tried-and-true Ising model can describe how scales color-switch as the lizard ages.

How clans form and evolve within human societies has been modeled using a simple computer model developed by a RIKEN researcher and a collaborator. This demonstration opens the way to modeling ...

Still, our simple, abstract model suggests a remarkably intuitive principle: The success of global cooperation depends on the strength of our local connections.

These models are hilarious, but I'm still a sucker for them because of the hope they provide: maybe a simple mathematical model can explain the sexual choices of the disinterested panda?