Half a century ago, economic research took a little-noticed yet dramatic departure from the study of concepts most people ...

Knowing only the building blocks of our own biosphere, can we predict how life may exist on other planets? What factors will ...

On December 19, the SFI Press published Volume 4 of Foundational Papers in Complexity Science. Following the publication of ...

A significant body of research has investigated why, as city populations grow, so do violent crime, contagious diseases — and ...

In fields ranging from immunology and ecology to economics and thermodynamics, multi-scale complex systems are ubiquitous. They are also notoriously difficult to model. Conventional approaches take ...

Half a century ago, economic research took a little-noticed yet dramatic departure from the study of concepts most people might be familiar with from Econ 101. The field shifted from an almost ...

In the final episode of the season, Abha sits down with Melanie to hear her perspective. They chat about Melanie’s career and research with Douglas Hofstadter, the author of Gödel, Escher, Bach. They ...

When it comes to job interviews, conventional wisdom often suggests that standing out is key to securing a position — seemingly at odds with the general human tendency to conform. A new study by SFI ...

A key lesson from allometric scaling perspectives has been that a variety of physiological processes and timescales systematically change with body size. These have important implications for ...

The adoption and diffusion of new technologies, including those associated with energy distribution and management, requires a deep appreciation of the properties and diversity of social systems.

Humans can live up to age 100, and not 1000 – why? Are there limits in how much our brains can think and compute? The laws of physics can help explain a lot, both about our own human bodies and how we ...

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 ...