A chair can still look like a chair even when its surface is reduced to a sparse cloud of points. Humans are remarkably good ...

More than a century of psychological research has assumed that, given constrained resources for storing information, learning ...

Human intelligence involves many dimensions: we interact socially, learn quickly from other people, and determine how tasks ...

Eric BeinhockerProfessor, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford; External Professor and Chair of the Science Board, Santa Fe Institute Andrea LiuProfessor of Physics, University of ...

SFI External Professor Constantino Tsallis (Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas) will serve as co-chair and synthesis lead of the 2027 Nobel Symposium in Physics, “Beyond Boltzmann: Complexity, ...

The built and natural worlds around us are full of examples of diversity from small, incremental evolutionary changes. Keyboard designs offer slightly different key spacing and press stiffness; two ...

In a recent paper, SFI Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow Yuanzhao Zhang and co-author William Gilpin show that a deceptively simple forecasting strategy can outperform several leading machine learning ...

Body size greatly affects how organisms interact with their environments. However, the macroevolutionary patterns of body size across many major metazoan clades and their constraining mechanisms ...

The number and timing of births are strongly associated with the stability of available resources and the risk of extrinsic mortality. The authors suggest a verbal model to disentangle the ...

This study investigates city dynamics employing a nonextensive diffusion equation suited for addressing diffusion within a fractal medium, where the nonadditive parameter, q , plays a relevant role.

Bednar, Jenna; Maria del Rio-Chanona; J. Doyne Farmer; Jogoda Kaszowska-Mojsa; Francois Lafond; Penny Mealy; Marco Pangallo and Anton Pichler ...