In a recent paper, SFI Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow Yuanzhao Zhang and co-author William Gilpin show that a deceptively ...

SFI External Professor Constantino Tsallis (Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas) will serve as co-chair and synthesis lead ...

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 ...

SFI External Professor Constantino Tsallis (Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas) will serve as co-chair and synthesis lead of the 2027 Nobel Symposium in Physics, “Beyond Boltzmann: Complexity, ...

This paper is a review of a few problems associated with the observation of scaling laws in urban systems. Two levels in the spatial organization have to be formalized, cities as systems and systems ...

Transmission is the Santa Fe Institute's real-time and ideas-based response to the COVID-19 outbreak. Many of our researchers are hard at work collaborating on the monitoring and modeling of the ...

“. . . 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 ...

In anticipation of Cormac McCarthy’s newest books, “The Passenger” and “Stella Maris” (Knopf, 2022), former SFI Miller Scholar Laurence Gonzales recollects McCarthy’s long and ongoing friendship with ...

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 simulation hypothesis — the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer — has long captured the public imagination. Yet most arguments about it ...