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 ...

SFI Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow Kaleda Denton was among roughly 30 early-career researchers selected to participate in the Rising Stars in Computational and Data Sciences Annual Workshop, held this ...

Present-day LLMs, like ChatGPT and Claude, can perform complex tasks, from writing poetry to solving difficult algebra problems, with astounding speed and precision. Some researchers have referred to ...

Most people favor one hand, and that hand tends to be the better one at writing, at throwing, at managing chopsticks. The long-standing view is that the dominant hand is “born” more capable, its ...

Imagine you poll your friends on how many minutes per pound to roast a turkey. Five respond with 15 minutes; one answers 33 minutes. The most popular model of conformity, the French-Harary-DeGroot ...

In the last decade, a phenomenon in artificial intelligence known as “double descent” has surprised researchers who study learning. The expectation was that the best AI models were neither too simple ...

The built and natural worlds around us are full of examples of diversity from small, incremental evolutionary changes. Keyboard designs offer slightly different key spacing and press stiffness; two ...