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During a ceremony Wednesday evening, May 4, the Santa Fe Institute awarded Melanie McKinley its Prize for Outstanding Teacher, and recognized 13 Santa Fe-area high school seniors for scientific excellence.

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.

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.

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.

Kenneth J. Arrow, a Nobel laureate who transformed our understanding of complex social and economic systems, passed away Tuesday, February 21, 2017 in Palo Alto, California.

SFI Professor Luis Bettencourt accepts roles as Pritzker Director the Mansueto Institute of Urban Innovation at the University of Chicago and Professor of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago.

An SFI working group explores the interactions between pre-industrial humans and other species, and what those interactions might tell us about modern society.

Darwin Day is observed annually on February 12, Charles Darwin's birthday. This year, SFI shares some faculty insights about the man who helped us understand life's great diversity.

SFI has named evolutionary anthropologist Paul Hooper as its new Director of Education. 

Human settlements sprawl according to common factors, and modern cities show similar patterns to ancient ones, but hunter-gatherer encampments look much different. An SFI working group is trying to figure out why.