Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow Maike Morrison builds mathematical tools to quantify and compare biological variation. Her ...

SFI Resident Professor Melanie Mitchell has received a 2025 Eric and Wendy Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communications from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Why do people make short-term decisions that may not be in their long-term interest? An October 22-25 working group takes ...

Clinical data (on patients from elephant seals to people) make clear the extraordinary and contradictory powers of the mammalian immune system: a vital line of defense, yet a source of grave danger.

Abstract: Learning about the causal structure of the world is a fundamental problem for human cognition, and causal knowledge is central to both intuitive and scientific world models. However, causal ...

The 2025 Postdocs in Complexity Global Conference, held September 16-19, drew 53 accomplished scholars for a four-day meeting ...

Global markets are complex systems, shaped by feedback loops, sudden shocks, and adaptive behavior that rarely follow textbook rules and which can’t be captured by neat equations. That reality is at ...

In a recent op-ed in PNAS, SFI External Professor Michael Hochberg and co-author Paul Rainey explore whether deepening interdependence between humans and AI could lead to a new form of evolutionary ...

SFI External Professors Alison Gopnik and Scott Page are among 120 new members of the National Academy of Sciences announced this week. Election to NAS recognizes the members’ “distinguished and ...

The oceans teem with photosynthesizing bacteria, tiny-tailed dinoflagellates gobbling other plankton, algae surrounded by intricate glass skeletons. In the 1960s, the ecologist G. Evelyn Hutchinson ...