As artificial intelligence has become a regular part of our daily lives, companies have run into a serious problem: their ...

SFI is in the full swing of summer activities. We are awash in early-career researchers who have come to Santa Fe for our long-standing, long-form educational opportunities, the Undergraduate ...

Bernet, GP; Elena, SF Background: Understanding the causes and consequences of phenotypic variability is a central topic of evolutionary biology. Mutations within non-coding cis-regulatory regions are ...

Schaller, David; Marc Hellmuth and Peter F. Stadler AsymmeTree is a flexible and easy-to-use Python package for the simulation of gene family histories. It simulates species trees and considers the ...

Cormac McCarthy, novelist, SFI Trustee and Life Fellow, colleague, friend, and inspiration “. . . the true heir to Melville and Faulkner." —Harold Bloom, literary critic. Cormac McCarthy, a Trustee of ...

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 ...

In many careers, a person must learn foundational skills before advancing more deeply into their profession. A recent paper in Nature Human Behavior mapped the dependency relationships ...

Medieval friar William of Ockham posited a famous idea: always pick the simplest explanation. Often referred to as the parsimony principle, “Ockham’s razor” has shaped scientific ...

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 ...

John Holland, a pioneer in the study of complex adaptive systems and the leading figure in what became known as genetic algorithms, passed away Sunday morning, August 9, 2015, in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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. He ...