Half a century ago, economic research took a little-noticed yet dramatic departure from the study of concepts most people ...

Knowing only the building blocks of our own biosphere, can we predict how life may exist on other planets? A paper in ...

Half a century ago, economic research took a little-noticed yet dramatic departure from the study of concepts most people might be familiar with from Econ 101. The field shifted from an almost ...

Novelty in biological, social, and technological systems provides the variety on which evolutionary processes act. But how does newness— both advantageous and unsuccessful — arise in the first place, ...

On December 19, the SFI Press published Volume 4 of Foundational Papers in Complexity Science. Following the publication of ...

A significant body of research has investigated why, as city populations grow, so do violent crime, contagious diseases — and ...

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 was founded in 1984 by a man named George Cowan, with the help of Murray Gell-Mann who is a Nobel-prize physicist, Phil Anderson, another Nobel-prize physicist, Ken Arrow who ...

Complex Systems Summer School (CSSS) offers an intensive four-week introduction to complex behavior in mathematical, physical, living, and social systems. CSSS brings together graduate students, ...

Drawing from statistical physics and cognitive and social psychology, we are examining how beliefs and behaviors change in diverse social networks. We know that our beliefs and behaviors are ...

The Complex World, originally published in Volume 1 of Foundational Papers in Complexity Science, presents an entirely new framing of nature, of the human role in the natural and technological worlds, ...

The SFI Undergraduate Complexity Research (UCR) program is a 10-week residential experience in complexity science research. Students can select from a menu of projects, or develop a project in ...