Global markets are complex systems, shaped by feedback loops, sudden shocks, and adaptive behavior that rarely follow ...

Complexity science can help archaeologists understand how the everyday actions of ancient people accumulated into the large-scale patterns we excavate today. In her new book, Thinking Through ...

In a new paper in Science Advances, SFI External Professor Marcus Hamilton and colleagues present a new model showing the ...

Collaborations in Artificial Intelligence and Geosciences (CAIG) — NSF 25-530 The Collaborations in Artificial Intelligence and Geosciences (CAIG) program seeks to advance the development and adoption ...

The human brain is remarkably good at detecting patterns in the world around us. We notice behaviors, rhythms, and ...

A paper published in PNAS in May describes work by External Professor Juan Pérez-Mercader and colleagues to create biochemistry-free self-assembling and reproducing ...

In August, the American Institute of Physics and AIP Foundation honored SFI External Professor France Córdova with an evening celebration in downtown Santa Fe. The event included a reception, a ...

In a recent op-ed in PNAS, SFI External Professor Michael Hochberg and co-author Paul Rainey explore whether deepening interdependence between humans and AI could lead to a new form of evolutionary ...

Giambattista Vico, in his foundational treatise The New Science, argued that humans can only truly know that which we have made ourselves. Language, art, literature, religion — these cultural elements ...

In July, the National Science Foundation announced a $100 million investment in AI research, spread over six Research Institutes. Three SFI researchers will participate as leaders and collaborators in ...