In many careers, a person must learn foundational skills before advancing deeper into their profession. A recent paper in ...

Aiming to chart a more sustainable path for governing our nation’s grid, representatives spanning physics, law, energy ...

To avoid the unintended consequences of climate policy, we need to better understand how climate policies and people’s values ...

C. Brandon Ogbunu has become a familiar face at SFI as an External Professor. In February, he joined SFI as a part-time ...

SFI External Professor and Science Steering Committee member Michelle Girvan (University of Maryland) has been elected ...

Through meetings, schools, community events, and media, we invite curiosity-driven individuals to share our discoveries and support complex systems science. For more than 35 years, a small team of ...

The Santa Fe Institute was founded in 1984 by a man named George Cowan, with the help of Murray Gell-Mann who is a Nobel-prize physicist, Phil Anderson, another Nobel-prize physicist, Ken Arrow who ...

Scientists are working across disciplines to render complex reality to scientific understanding. It has been the great triumph of the sciences to find consistent means of studying phenomena hidden by ...

In several of our recent experiments (Herrnstein, Prelec, & Vaughan, 1986), subjects made choices in a way that supports the idea that choice is governed, either sometimes or always, by a principle ...

The Dvorak keyboard has been claimed to be greatly superior to the standard typwriter keyboard. However, none of the earlier research on the relative merits of the two keyboards provided unconfounded ...

To avoid the unintended consequences of climate policy, we need to better understand how climate policies and people’s values coevolve. A recent working group led by Katrin Schmelz and Sam Bowles met ...