The model is simple in theory: each time an idea spreads, it has a chance of increasing or decreasing in intensity. If it ...

Applications are open for the 2026 cohort of SFI Complexity Postdoctoral Fellows, who hold the Omidyar Fellowship. This ...

Our campus is closed to the public for this event. The transition in biochemistry, from synthesizing information directly into small-molecule structure, to imprinting it in the sequences of monomer ...

This spring, the Santa Fe Institute’s Board of Trustees elected Ian McKinnon and Sam Peters as Board Chair and Vice-Chair, respectively. McKinnon and Peters, who both grew up in New Mexico, have ...

<p>Many people have experienced firsthand the idea that "fashion comes back," from bell-bottom jeans to mini-skirts. Historically, a lack of quantitative data posed a barrier to explicit mathematical ...

<p>The field of computational mechanics, the study of causal states that started around 1990, has grown tremendously in the last decade or so. The calculus of epsilon-Machines, both classical and ...

A significant body of research has investigated why, as city populations grow, so do violent crime, contagious diseases &mdash; and per-capita GDP. A new paper now finds that cities with strong ...

SFI External Professor C. Brandon Ogbunu (Yale University) received a 2024 Eric and Wendy Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communications from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, ...

SFI External Faculty Fellow Constantino Tsallis has been elected to the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. The EASA is a non-governmental association “dedicated to innovative research, ...

As consumer interest in electric vehicles rises, the lack of charging stations is a continuing concern to potential customers. A recent paper in PNAS Nexus provides a possible road map for how to ...

A new study published in Science suggests that E. coli bacteria may have a higher capability to evolve antibiotic resistance than previously believed. Researchers, led by Andreas Wagner, mapped ...