Sachs, M. K.,Heien, E. M.,Turcotte, D. L.,Yikilmaz, M. B.,Rundle, J. B.,Kellogg, L. H.

Extraterrestrial and artificial life have long captivated the human mind. Knowing only the building blocks of our own biosphere, can we predict how life may exist on other planets? What factors will ...

Half a century ago, economic research took a little-noticed yet dramatic departure from the study of concepts most people might be familiar with from Econ 101. The field shifted from an almost ...

On December 19, the SFI Press published Volume 4 of Foundational Papers in Complexity Science. Following the publication of Volumes 1 and 2 in May and Volume 3 in September, this concluding book ...

As city population grows, so does violent crime, contagious diseases, and per-capita GDP. A significant body of research has investigated what drives this scaling relationship, examining factors ...

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 Santa Fe Institute is leading the world in complexity science, with a mixed group of physicists, biologists, economists, political scientists, computer experts, and mathematicians working together ...

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, ...

Societies today face daunting challenges: population growth, rapid urbanization, ecological and environmental disturbances, and an unpredictable global marketplace. To address these complex and ...

Complex Systems Summer School (CSSS) offers an intensive four-week introduction to complex behavior in mathematical, physical, living, and social systems. CSSS brings together graduate students, ...

A historical archive of SFI's in-house preprint series, retired in 2017.

Infection by HIV has many puzzling quantitative features. There is an average lag of nearly ten years between infection and onset of AIDS in adults. Even though T cells are normally rapidly ...