"I remember the day when, at the age of 7, I realized that I wanted to figure out how reality worked," writes SFI External ...

In The Complex World, the newest book from the SFI Press, SFI President David C. Krakauer offers readers a concise and ...

What is reality? And is there just one reality or many, perhaps infinitely many? In this essay first published ...

"This past spring on my way to the Santa Fe Institute, home to polymath thinkers and thinking, tucked into the foothills of ...

"I remember the day when, at the age of 7, I realized that I wanted to figure out how reality worked," writes SFI External Professor Vijay Balasubramanian in this essay for Nautilus. "By the time I ...

Understanding how populations respond to selective pressures is an active area of research, of particular relevance for pathogens, which often adapt after the implementation of epidemic control ...

All interactions between individuals of the same or different species (populations) are metabolically-constrained. That is, the rate of an individual's energy use (metabolic rate) sets the rate of ...

The beliefs we hold develop from a complex dance between our internal and external lives. Our personal-level cognition and our relationships with others work in concert to shape our views of the world ...

Bacterial cooperation, whereby cells secrete compounds that can facilitate the growth of neighboring cells, has been extensively studied through the lens of evolutionary biology. However, the ...

Community ecology is built on the notion of interspecies interactions. The strengths of interactions are almost invariably taken as fixed parameters, which must either be measured or assumed. The few ...

Cyclic outbreaks of forest insects devastate forests, leading to widespread defoliation and tree death. Outbreaks would be far worse if not for epidemics of fatal virus diseases, which decimate ...