SFI External Professor Constantino Tsallis (Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas) will serve as co-chair and synthesis lead ...

The built and natural worlds around us are full of examples of diversity from small, incremental evolutionary changes. Keyboard designs offer slightly different key spacing and press stiffness; two ...

The brain runs on about 15 to 20 watts, less than most light bulbs, but has still managed to evolve a voracious appetite for ...

Living cells are fundamentally nonequilibrium systems, meaning they constantly expend energy through seemingly one-way, irreversible processes, such as transcribing DNA into RNA, to keep life going.

Think of the economy as a giant web where every person, company, and country is linked. When something big happens — a pandemic, the rise of artificial intelligence, or a climate-driven disaster — it ...

In a recent paper, SFI Professor David Wolpert, SFI Fractal Faculty member Carlo Rovelli, and physicist Jordan Scharnhorst examine a long-standing, paradoxical thought experiment in statistical ...

The human brain is astonishingly efficient. It runs on about 20 watts, roughly the power required to keep a dim bulb lit. Over the last three decades, computer scientists in a field called ...

01/07 — 01/09 Working Group "Navigating the Space of Collective Transitions in Biology and Society," organized by Manfred Laubichler, Bryan Daniels, Colin Lynch 02/16 — 02/20 Working Group ...

The simulation hypothesis — the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer — has long captured the public imagination. Yet most arguments about it ...

From Beowulf to Pride and Prejudice to the classic sitcom Friends, all stories share a common purpose: to convey knowledge about how to navigate the world. “Stories are everywhere,” says SFI External ...