In a new paper in Science Advances, SFI External Professor Marcus Hamilton and colleagues present a new model showing the ...

The human brain is remarkably good at detecting patterns in the world around us. We notice behaviors, rhythms, and ...

A paper published in PNAS in May describes work by External Professor Juan Pérez-Mercader and colleagues to create ...

In a paper in Nature, SFI External Professor Luís Bettencourt and co-author Nicholas Marchio, both researchers at the ...

SFI External Professor Jessika Trancik, a former SFI Omidyar Fellow and current professor at MIT, was named the director of ...

SFI's Lou Schuyler Seed Grant Fund supports SFI’s early-career fellows' new, exploratory research directions. Since 2022, ten SFI postdocs have held these grants. Here, we celebrate the work of a few ...

SFI's Lou Schuyler Seed Grant Fund supports SFI’s early-career fellows' new, exploratory research directions. Since 2022, ten ...

“. . . 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 ...

John Holland, a pioneer in the study of complex adaptive systems and the leading figure in what became known as genetic algorithms, passed away Sunday morning, August 9, 2015, in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

To make good decisions under uncertainty, decision- makers must act creatively to avoid paralysis, while recognizing the possibility of failure. The current COVID-19 pandemic presents decision-makers ...

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 ...