https://phys.org/news/2018-05-methodology-common-principles-complex.html

Describing, forecasting and manipulating such complexity is very challenging in almost all scientific disciplines and is the bottleneck in industry. Is there a way to crack such a hard nut?

Chinese scientists are searching for answers and may have found a powerful tool. They have, for the first time, developed the concept of "mesoscience"—a methodology for discovering common principles governing all such complexity.