Half a century ago, economic research took a little-noticed yet dramatic departure from the study of concepts most people ...

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 adoption and diffusion of new technologies, including those associated with energy distribution and management, requires a deep appreciation of the properties and diversity of social systems.

Evolutionary analysis has become an powerful tool for the functional annotation of genomes due to the availability of massive amounts of comparative sequence data. The assessment of coding potential ...

The Graduate Workshop in Computational Social Science Modeling and Complexity brings together a group of advanced Ph.D. students and a small faculty for an intensive two-week study of computational ...

Santa Fe's high altitude (7,000 feet above sea level) means air is rarefied, thinner. It usually takes about 48 hours to adjust and staying hydrated helps. Watch your alcohol intake. One drink is the ...

“Capitalism plus technology, under many conditions, can generate externalities that exceed the political-economic damage of mercantilism — from unemployment to climate change. Adam Smith needs to meet ...

Kreimer, A.,Doron-Faigenboim, A.,Borenstein, E.,Freilich, S. NetCmpt is a tool for calculating the competitive potential between pairs of bacterial species. The score describes the effective metabolic ...