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Predicting the economic downturn during the pandemic

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

14 October 2022

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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.

13 October 2022

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Researchers create computer risk model to tackle supply chain disruption

Using mobile phone data, a team at the Complexity Science Hub Vienna mapped an entire nation’s supply chain network. The computer model, which predicts what’s at stake if supply chains break down, can be easily implemented by other countries

8 August 2022

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And when will your medical care collapse?

The pandemic has taught us to think beyond making healthcare more cost-effective. It should be more resilient, too, says a Viennese team of researchers – which developed a stress test to identify its strengths and weaknesses

29 July 2022

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Study unveils first global dataset for SARS-CoV-2 infections in animals

Structured data on the virus in animals is essential to further our understanding of the COVID-19 pandemic and mitigate its spread at the human-animal interface, according to the authors of the paper published in Scientific Data

26 July 2022

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Theories on socio-political evolution put to the test

An international research team uses a new dynamical model and an exceptional historical data collection to examine major explanations for the evolution of cultural complexity – and finds little support for many, even very influential, theories

27 June 2022

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Want to improve the company’s performance? Get more women in the boardroom

The presence of women in corporate boards leads to better financial results, shows a new study

20 June 2022

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Smaller tech companies promote greater innovation in cities

Vienna, June 2 - Amazon? Google? Microsoft? No, courting big tech giants may not be a good idea for cities hoping to become tech hubs, according to a recent study by the Complexity Science Hub Vienna and the London School of Economics.

2 June 2022

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Study provides new insights into the complexity of the brain

Computational model of a tiny worm neural activity highlights neurons that could serve as the basis of future experiments

30 May 2022

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Austria could cope with Russian gas stop – if well-managed on EU level

A new Policy Brief from the Complexity Science Hub shows Austria could survive a complete outage of Russia’s gas supply. However, this would require coordinated EU action. Without cooperation, the damage to Austria's economy would be much greater.

26 May 2022