C. Brandon Ogbunu has become a familiar face at SFI as an External Professor. In February, he joined SFI as a part-time ...

To avoid the unintended consequences of climate policy, we need to better understand how climate policies and people’s values ...

SFI External Professor and Science Steering Committee member Michelle Girvan (University of Maryland) has been elected ...

When comparing two objects, people either rely on internal memories of these objects or run their hands and eyes over them to ...

Since the last major ice age, populations of large animals have dwindled. These declines have directly affected climate ...

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?

Bertolero, Max; Azeez Adebimpe; Matthew Cieslak; Sydney Covitz; Eric Feczko; Audrey Houghton; Oscar Miranda-Dominguez; Adam Pines; Danielle Bassett; Damien Fair and Theodore Satterthwaite Symptoms on ...

Themes are institute-wide research topics that draw together large networks of researchers from the extended SFI network and beyond. Over the course of several years, researchers rigorously engage ...

Scientists are working across disciplines to render complex reality to scientific understanding. It has been the great triumph of the sciences to find consistent means of studying phenomena hidden by ...

A renewal approach to configurational entropy in one dimensionWe introduce a novel approach, inspired from the theory of renewal processes, to determine the configurational entropy of ensembles of ...

We are building a theoretical framework that will guide the creation of artificial agents that adjust their neural networks (brains) to feedback from their bodies and surroundings -- in essence to ...

Has the end of Apartheid made South African labor markets meritocratic? This paper presents an analytical framework with testable hypotheses concerning equal opportunity. Using this framework and ...