SFI External Professor Mahzarin Banaji (Harvard University) has received a BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award ...

A recent study by SFI Postdoctoral Fellow Andrew Steir and Professor Brandon Ogbunu in NPJ Complexity shows that many U.S.

Our campus is closed to the public for this event. Tune in for the live stream on YouTube Abstract: The nature of the dark matter in the Universe is among the longest and most important outstanding ...

Melanie Mitchell. Sandia National Laboratories. “Visual Reasoning in Multimodal LLMs.” $600,000 for three years. Andrew Stier. Russell Sage Foundation. “Theory Directed Measurements of Implicit Racial ...

Greetings from the mountains of Santa Fe. In turbulent times for science and society, SFI’s role as “A place removed from the pressure of received ideas” (Murray Gell-Mann) is more important than ever ...

The Totality of Relations Existing in Everything: Mallarmé for the C21st ...

Music is a universal language across time, peoples, and geographies, and also fundamental to our human experience, a result ...

How does evolution produce sophisticated emergent computation in systems composed of simple components limited to local interactions? To model such a process, we used a genetic algorithm (GA) to ...

Until recently, using machine learning for a specific task meant training the system on vast amounts of relevant data. The same was true for data representing a system that changes over time, says SFI ...

SFI postdoctoral fellow Kaleda Denton has been recognized by the European Society for Evolutionary Biology as the runner-up for the 2025 John Maynard Smith Prize for outstanding young biologists.

Music is a universal language across time, peoples, and geographies, and also fundamental to our human experience, a result of our biological evolution. Despite musicality’s connection to both culture ...

Gagnon, J. S.,Perez-Mercader, J. We study the effect of external power-law noise on the renormalizability of a specific reaction-diffusion system of equations describing a cubic autocatalytic chemical ...