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

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

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 ...

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 ...

To analyze high-dimensional systems, many fields in science and engineering rely on high- level descriptions, sometimes called “macrostates,” “coarse-grainings,” or “effective theo- ries”. Examples of ...

When comparing two objects, people either rely on internal memories of these objects or run their hands and eyes over them to directly perceive their similarity. The latter approach, a shortcut that ...

The rise of the state is a key marker in the evolution of human society. States typically emerged when one chiefdom achieved a greater and more effective level of organization than a competing set of ...

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, ...

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?

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

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 ...