Some computers are easy to spot. Artificial, human-built computers like those found in smartphones and laptops are abstract ...

The race to develop a virtual scientist — an AI creation that conducts every stage of research, from idea to publication — has consumed researchers, start-up founders, and tech juggernauts alike. It ...

SFI External Professor Santiago Elena has been elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, joining 62 other fellows in the class of 2026, each selected for their contributions in the ...

A new study in PNAS introduces a mathematical model that quantifies how different systems, from cells to organizations, ...

The Economy as an Evolving Complex System IV, published by the SFI Press in February 2026, is the latest in a series originally launched nearly four decades ago to rethink economics through the lens ...

A century ago, the section of U.S. federal law governing public health and welfare was relatively small and loosely connected ...

Whenever an authority has influence over a population — be it a social media platform moderating user comments, a government imposing laws on its citizens, or an employer placing restrictions on ...

In a recent paper, SFI Professor David Wolpert, SFI Fractal Faculty member Carlo Rovelli, and physicist Jordan Scharnhorst examine a long-standing, paradoxical thought experiment in statistical ...

03/10/2026 Colloquium "The Great Holocene Transformation: Cultural Macroevolution of Social Scale and Complexity" by Peter Turchin, Complexity Science Hub Vienna 01/07 — 01/09 Working Group ...

Every task we perform on our computer — whether number crunching, watching a video, or typing out an article — requires different components of the machine to interact with one another. "Communication ...