{"id":204912,"date":"2025-01-30T04:44:33","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T10:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/scientists-map-the-mathematics-behind-how-we-create-and-innovate"},"modified":"2025-01-30T04:44:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T10:44:33","slug":"scientists-map-the-mathematics-behind-how-we-create-and-innovate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/scientists-map-the-mathematics-behind-how-we-create-and-innovate","title":{"rendered":"Scientists map the mathematics behind how we create and innovate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-map-the-mathematics-behind-how-we-create-and-innovate.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study in <i>Nature Communications<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-024-55115-y\" target=\"_blank\">explores<\/a> the dynamics of higher-order novelties, identifying fascinating patterns in how we combine existing elements to create novelty, potentially reshaping our understanding of human creativity and innovation.<\/p>\n<p>Novelties\u2014a common part of human life\u2014refer to one of two things. The first is the discovery of a single item, like a place, song, or an artist. The second covers discoveries new to everyone, such as technological developments or drug discoveries.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers in this study aimed to understand how both kinds of novelties emerge. The team was led by Prof. Vito Latora from the Queen Mary University of London, who spoke to Phys.org about the work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study in Nature Communications explores the dynamics of higher-order novelties, identifying fascinating patterns in how we combine existing elements to create novelty, potentially reshaping our understanding of human creativity and innovation. Novelties\u2014a common part of human life\u2014refer to one of two things. The first is the discovery of a single item, like a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}