Berlin could produce more than 80% of its fresh vegetables locally

Only by knowing the average number of friends each person has, scientists at Complexity Science Hub Vienna (CSH) were able to predict the group sizes of people in a computer game. For this purpose, they modelled the formation of social groups on an example from physics, ...

A research team from the Complexity Science Hub and MedUni Vienna analyzed 180,034 patients with diabetes mellitus and found evidence that women are at higher risk of venous thromboembolism than men - particularly during perimenopause. In total, massive amounts of data f...

To find out how many scientists a region needs to become a leader in a discipline, researchers at Complexity Science Hub tracked millions of scientists moving across the globe. Their results: there is no critical mass, but you have to be a pioneer. Regions can catch up l...

The first animal experiment proves what big data analysis previously indicated: high doses of statins increase osteoporosis risk

A scientific team led by Thomas Niederkrotenthaler and Hannah Metzler from Complexity Science Hub Vienna and MedUni Vienna  analysed approximately seven million postings on the topic of suicide and suicide prevention on Twitter. In the process, it was shown that content ...

[Vienna | Nov 28, 2022] - It has been an extremely turbulent year for the crypto world. In particular, the collapses of the stablecoin Terra at the beginning of the year and the one of the crypto exchange FTX two weeks ago left many investors stunned. New research from C...

[Wien, 24. November 2022] Es war ein äußerst turbulentes Jahr für die Kryptowelt. Vor allem die Zusammenbrüche des Stablecoins Terra zu Beginn des Jahres und jener der Krypto-Tauschbörse FTX vor zwei Wochen, ließen manche Investor:innen fassungslos zurück. Eine neue Stud...

An international team of scientists developed a model in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic to forecast its economic impact. Their predictions turned out to be highly accurate

Physicist Fariba Karimi and her team at the Complexity Science Hub Vienna revisited and analyzed the claims made by a ‘sexist’ senior scientist – who said, among other things, that women were less able at physics than men.