A new study in Theory and Society shows that the printing of witch-hunting manuals, particularly the Malleus maleficarum in ...

SFI External Professor Tanmoy Bhattacharya (Los Alamos National Laboratory) has been elected as a fellow of the American ...

In the past, a person might be diagnosed with hysteria — a mental condition for which no useful treatment could be possible, ...

In a new paper in Science Advances, SFI Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow Yuanzhaho Zhang reports on how higher-order ...

Conventional approaches to the study of inequality focus on income and wealth, but an individual’s position within their ...

The Complex World, originally published in Volume 1 of Foundational Papers in Complexity Science, presents an entirely new framing of nature, of the human role in the natural and technological worlds, ...

The SFI Undergraduate Complexity Research (UCR) program is a 10-week residential experience in complex systems science. Students can select from a menu of projects, or develop a project in ...

Drawing on fields as diverse as physics, chemistry, biology, information processing, economics, political science and every other aspect of human affairs, the Institute endeavors to see the world as ...

Conventional approaches to the study of inequality focus on income and wealth, but an individual’s position within their economic networks is another important form of inequality. Efforts to ...

Novelty in biological, social, and technological systems provides the variety on which evolutionary processes act. But how does newness— both advantageous and unsuccessful — arise in the first place, ...

Scientists are working across disciplines to render complex reality to scientific understanding. It has been the great triumph of the sciences to find consistent means of studying phenomena hidden by ...