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

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

Since the 1970s, the cost of solar-energy systems has plummeted by over 99 percent. In a recent paper published in PLOS One, ...

In a recent op-ed in PNAS, SFI External Professor Michael Hochberg and co-author Paul Rainey explore whether deepening ...

The New New Science, a September 15-18 working group, meets to address what it means to view the humanities as subjects ...

On August 12-13 a working group at SFI explored the challenges and opportunities of digital-twin technology — virtual representations of physical objects, designed to exactly mimic its inspiration — ...

In July, the National Science Foundation announced a $100 million investment in AI research, spread over six Research ...

External Faculty are central to SFI’s identity as a world-class research institute. They enrich our networks of interactions, help us push the boundaries of complex-systems science, and connect us to ...

It might start as a joke, a belief, or a rumor. At first, it’s easy to dismiss. But then it gains a twist, builds momentum, and spreads like wildfire. What causes some ideas to die out while others ...

In a network, pairs of individual elements, or nodes, connect to each other; those connections can represent a sprawling system with myriad individual links. A hypergraph goes deeper: It gives ...

In many careers, a person must learn foundational skills before advancing more deeply into their profession. Computer programmers need a solid foundation in basic mathematics; nurses must gain ...

For more than 100 years, electric companies in the U.S. have maintained the same basic business model, carefully fine-tuned to sometimes conflicting local, state, and federal regulation. But over the ...