Last month, a workshop on the Science of History met to explore a series of provocative questions: How do laws and regularities in a domain like physics differ from those in human history? How might ...

Economic inequality is one of our primary global challenges and is a key research topic for archaeology — Why do some societies become deeply unequal while others remain more balanced? What clues ...

As artificial intelligence has become a regular part of our daily lives, companies have run into a serious problem: their longstanding tools for measuring AI performance and safety no longer suffice.

Welcome to Santa Fe Institute.If unpriced emission of greenhouse gases imposes real costs on future generations, both present and future generations can enjoy a higher consumption of economic goods ...

<p>Abstract: Physicists have contributed hugely to modern neuroscience and artificial intelligence, but there is—or should be—a reverse intellectual direction, too. Many of the thorniest puzzles in ...

Cormac McCarthy, a trustee of the Santa Fe Institute and one of the greatest American novelists, passed away on Tuesday, June 12, at his home in Santa Fe. He was 89 years old.

In anticipation of Cormac McCarthy’s newest books, “The Passenger” and “Stella Maris” (Knopf, 2022), former SFI Miller Scholar Laurence Gonzales recollects McCarthy’s long and ongoing friendship with ...

David Pines, a central figure in understanding the elemental properties of condensed matter and who played a major role in birthing complexity science and founding the Santa Fe Institute, passed away ...

Murray Gell-Mann, a Nobel laureate who revealed symmetry and order in the world of subatomic particles and leveled his genius at complex mysteries of life and mind,&nbsp;died peacefully May 24, 2019.

What if life evolved not just once, but multiple times independently?&nbsp; In a new&nbsp;paper,&nbsp;published in&nbsp;the Journal of Molecular Evolution, Santa Fe Institute researchers Chris Kempes ...