When physicists study a “random walk,” they’re investigating the path followed when you’re allowed to take each step in a ...
SFI Fractal Faculty member Stuart Firestein's new book, It Could Be Otherwise, "proposes a subtly radical notion," writes SFI ...
In natural and artificial systems, the act of searching is ubiquitous, but it's also complicated: Searchers may die off or ...
Influenza spreads in a crowded barracks or prison. Ebola proliferates when per-capita hospital beds plummet below the typical ...
Melanie MitchellJames B. Alley, Jr. Professor + Science Steering Committee Member at SFI, and Author of "Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans" ...
“. . . the true heir to Melville and Faulkner." —Harold Bloom, literary critic. "Today feels to me like a terrible disaster where many of us lost a good friend, the Santa Fe Institute lost one of its ...
The sudden emergence of witch trials in early modern Europe may have been fueled by one of humanity's most significant intellectual milestones: the invention of the printing press in 1450. “Cities ...
David Pines, a central figure in understanding the elemental properties of condensed matter and who played a major role in birthing complexity science and founding the Santa Fe Institute, passed away ...
The history of life on Earth has often been likened to a four-billion-year-old torch relay. One flame, lit at the beginning of the chain, continues to pass on life in the same form all the way down.
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