A new paper in PNAS shows that the idea of “taking turns” could help resolve the 1960s paradox of the plankton — and better ...

SFI External Professor Mason A. Porter (UCLA) has received the 2025 George Pólya Prize for Mathematical Exposition from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) for “his outstanding ...

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 ...

Up on the hill there’s an institute that is devoted to studying complex systems, and it's world renowned. [The Santa Fe Institute] is the most famous institute in the world for studying complex ...

In The Power of the Invisible: The Quantessence of Reality, former SFI External Professor Sander Bais offers a three-volume set that reviews classical physics, dives deeper into quantum mechanics, and ...

The allocation of discrete, complementary resources is a fundamental problem in economics and of direct interest to e-commerce applications. In this paper we establish that competitive equilibrium ...

Using a simple probabilistic model, we illustrate that a small part of a strongly correlated manybody classical system can show a paradoxical behavior, namely asymptotic stochastic independence. We ...

Karrer, B.,Newman, M. E. J. Directed acyclic graphs make up a fundamental class of networks that includes citation networks, food webs, and family trees, among others. Here we define a random graph ...

Gunn, J. D.,Scarborough, V. L.,Folan, W. J.,Isendahl, C.,Chase, A. F.,Sabloff, J. A.,Volta, B. We report a study of central Maya lowland dynastic information networks ...

Greenblum, S.,Turnbaugh, P. J.,Borenstein, E. The human microbiome plays a key role in a wide range of host-related processes and has a profound effect on human health. Comparative analyses of the ...