What is nowadays ubiquitously referred to as complexity emerges in a wide variety of natural, artificial, and social systems. This very rich concept is nontrivial to understand and is therefore hard ...

Economic agent-based models are half a century old, but have remained mostly at the margin of economics. In recent years, a few successes have raised hopes that we are approaching a tipping point, ...

Meeting Description: Over thirty years ago, Stuart Kauffman joined the nascent Santa Fe Institute as one of its first resident researchers. At that time, Stu focused his research on big questions in ...

Meeting Summary: Co-sponsored by SFI and IMéRA, the Institute for Advanced Studies of Aix-Marseille University, France, this open forum will bring together network and complexity scientists, ...

Tune in for the live stream on YouTube Abstract: The nature of the dark matter in the Universe is among the longest and most important outstanding problems in all of modern physics. The ordinary atoms ...

Cormac McCarthy, a trustee of the Santa Fe Institute and one of the greatest American novelists, passed away on Tuesday, June 12, at his home in Santa Fe. He was 89 years old.

Murray Gell-Mann, a Nobel laureate who revealed symmetry and order in the world of subatomic particles and leveled his genius at complex mysteries of life and mind, died peacefully May 24, 2019.

In anticipation of Cormac McCarthy’s newest books, “The Passenger” and “Stella Maris” (Knopf, 2022), former SFI Miller Scholar Laurence Gonzales recollects McCarthy’s long and ongoing friendship with ...

David Pines, a central figure in understanding the elemental properties of condensed matter and who played a major role in birthing complexity science and founding the Santa Fe Institute, passed away ...

What if life evolved not just once, but multiple times independently?  In a new paper, published in the Journal of Molecular Evolution, Santa Fe Institute researchers Chris Kempes ...

In The Complex World, the newest book from the SFI Press, SFI President David C. Krakauer offers readers a concise and comprehensive overview of complexity science, following its roots from the ...

In paper after paper over 25 years, Geoffrey West and his SFI colleagues methodically built a case for universal, mathematical scaling laws common to biological and human social systems. West’s ...