When mega-societies like Rome collapse, it shows that no group is too big to fail. New research from SFI External Professor ...

In June, three SFI Faculty members participated in panel discussions at the National Judicial Summit on the Foundation and ...

SFI Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow Kaleda Denton was among roughly 30 early-career researchers selected to participate in the ...

Much of the human world has been undergoing rapid transformative changes, characterized by the digital technologies, globalization, and the emergence of new information architectures. These in turn ...

SFI External Professor Andreas Wagner has been awarded an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council to study fitness ...

Time in complex systems operates concurrently at different scales, runs at multiple rates, and integrates the function of numerous connected systems. We describe these processes as “complex time” as ...

SFI External Professor Laurent Hébert-Dufresne (University of Vermont) has been named the 2026 recipient of the Young Scientist Award for Socio- and Econophysics by the German Physical Society (DPG).

Last fall, SFI External Professor John Krakauer was named director of the Centre for Restorative Neurotechnology (CRN) — a ...

Abstract: Almost all music is concerned with three fundamental properties: pulse, pitch, and transformed repetition. Many musical transformations are invertible, and hence generate symmetry groups.

For nearly a century, scientists from a diverse set of fields have been captured by questions about the origins of life. How did life, in all of its complexity, arise from comparatively simple matter?

The Santa Fe Institute celebrates one of its founders with a new edition of a seminal work by the late Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann. Originally published in 1994, The Quark & the Jaguar spans the ...