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How novelty arrives: Review of “Origins of the New”

Working group asks, what’s the benefit of a brain?

Measuring irreversibility in gene transcription

ACtioN Academy engages industry leaders on AI and complexity

Arguing for a complex adaptive power grid

Mark Newman Awarded 2026 SIAM John von Neumann Prize

Review: Nonesuch, by SFI Miller Scholar Francis Spufford

Laurent Hébert-Dufresne to receive Young Scientist Award

What does it mean to compute?

Reassessing the scientific method

SFI External Professor Santiago Elena elected to the American Academy of Microbiology

From cells to companies: Study shows how diversity scales within complex systems

SFI Press launches “The Economy as an Evolving Complex System IV”

New dataset reveals how U.S. law has grown more complex over the past century

Boldness is key to avoiding self-censorship, model shows

SFI welcomes Program Postdoctoral Fellow Jordan Kemp

Disentangling the Boltzmann brain hypothesis: Memory, entropy, and time

Study: Does polygyny really exclude vast swaths of men from marriage?

More efficient computing through stochastic thermodynamics

SFI welcomes Miller Scholar Francis Spufford

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