The simulation hypothesis — the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien ...

Every task we perform on a computer requires different components of the machine to interact with one another — to ...

"Over the past 40 years, the field of microeconomics has gone through a revolution in real-world applications, yet the ...

For most of human history, large societies have drawn clear lines between people who belong to the in-group and those who do ...

Biologists at UCLA used a natural experiment during the COVID-19 lockdowns to study the effects of human activity on urban wildlife. In a new study, SFI External Professor Pamela Yeh and co-author ...

Biologists at UCLA used a natural experiment during the COVID-19 lockdowns to study the effects of human activity on urban ...

SFI Research Fellow Anthony Eagan reflects on SFI's new multi-day event, Synthetic Imagination, which launched in September.

An Introduction to Ergodicity Economics is a new textbook that draws on physics to re-examine traditional economic theory. It ...

Power-law distributions occur in many situations of scientific interest and have significant consequences for our understanding of natural and man-made phenomena. Unfortunately, the empirical ...

Themes are institute-wide research topics that draw together large networks of researchers from the extended SFI network and beyond. Over the course of several years, researchers rigorously engage ...

In the final episode of the season, Abha sits down with Melanie to hear her perspective. They chat about Melanie’s career and research with Douglas Hofstadter, the author of Gödel, Escher, Bach. They ...

In October, the International Society for Artificial Life recognized several SFI researchers and co-authors with the ISAL ...