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May 8-11, the SFI postdocs hunker down for an intense experiment in interdisciplinary collaboration. Their goal: to go from a new idea to a complete paper in just three days.

A long-term study of the Tsimane forger-farmers yields new insights into aging and the human life course.

May 3-5, 2017 at SFI, researchers looked for the ways to measure collective behavior across different systems.

Community detection is an important tool for scientists studying networks, but a new paper published in Science Advances calls into question the common practice of using metadata for ground truth validation.

According to a new paper published this week in PNAS, creating a quantitative and systematic understanding of how cities generate wealth and better living conditions for their residents would be a big step toward achieving the sustainable development goals set by the United Nations.

An April Working Group explores how ecological systems synchronize, like in the case of Magicicada swarms.

Cormac McCarthy, the celebrated American novelist and a senior fellow at SFI, is publishing his first-ever non-fiction science essay in Nautilus magazine.

In a new paper published in the current issue of the American Journal of Political Science, SFI Omidyar Fellow Marion Dumas looks at 40 years of U.S. environmental laws to ask what impact litigious citizens have on the political bargaining process.

Science in particular has begun to probe the possibilities and limits of Big Data — and is making headway in building new analytic tools, finding new correlations, and achieving theoretic progress.

Simon DeDeo's new tutorial introduces learners to renormalization — a method for blurring small details in order to capture meaningful features of complex systems.

Shannan is the vice president for customer support at Shopify, which provides services for businesses and entrepreneurs who want to set up shop on the internet. Shopify joined SFI’s Applied Complexity Network (ACtioN) in late 2016.

SFI science meetings highlight underlying commonalities with inventions in technology, biology, culture and economics.

Michael Kearns presented an SFI Community Lecture on machine learning and social norms at The Lensic Performing Arts Center on April 4. Watch his talk here.

New books by SFI Authors, highlighted in the Spring 2017 Parallax, include From Bacteria to Bach and Back, Scale, and 43 Visions for Complexity.

Starting this week, a new online tutorial teaches quantitative approaches to understanding game-like interactions between multiple decision makers.

Why salmon migrate in 'pulsing' patterns is the subject of a new paper published today in Animal Behavior.

In a new study, SFI Omidyar Fellow Eleanor Power analyzes the social benefit of religious participation in two South Indian communities. 

This week at SFI, researchers from a range of disciplines examine how violent radicalization occurs at the micro, meso, and macro levels.

SFI Omidyar Fellow Josh Grochow and collaborators make headway on decades-old mathematics problem.

The journal Chaos has announced that “Evaluating gambles using dynamics,” co-authored by SFI’s Murray Gell-Mann and Ole Peters, was the most-read paper of 2016.