SFI Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow Kaleda Denton was among roughly 30 early-career researchers selected to participate in the ...

SFI External Professor Andreas Wagner has been awarded an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council to study fitness ...

In June, three SFI Faculty members participated in panel discussions at the National Judicial Summit on the Foundation and ...

Present-day LLMs, such as ChatGPT and Claude, can perform complex tasks, such as writing poetry and solving difficult algebra ...

Last fall, SFI External Professor John Krakauer was named director of the Centre for Restorative Neurotechnology (CRN) — a ...

Jim Rutt, SFI Trustee Emeritus and Distinguished Fellow, passed away on May 27, 2026, at age 72. Rutt was an active member of ...

A mystery novel, a history book, and a fantasy epic may have little in common in plot or style. But count the words inside them and a strange regularity appears: many new words show up early, then ...

A century ago, the section of U.S. federal law governing public health and welfare was relatively small and loosely connected to the rest of the legal system. Today, it is one of the largest and most ...

Many complex systems, from microbial communities to mussel beds to drylands, display striking self-organized clusters. According to theoretical models, these groupings play an important role in how an ...

"Marten Scheffer’s book, Tipping out of Trouble, will open your mind to how scientific knowledge can be turned into social ...

Most people favor one hand, and that hand tends to be the better one at writing, at throwing, at managing chopsticks. The long-standing view is that the dominant hand is “born” more capable, its ...