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Professor Sidney Redner and colleagues reveal an optimal strategy for foragers, whether they're searching for berries in the woods or oil in the desert.

Some 30 researchers gather at SFI this week to discover how social networks influence wealth inequality.

How large-scale factors like evolution and environments interact to produce cancer risk is the subject of a new study published in the February issue of Ecology Letters.

The Winter 2017 issue of SFI's quarterly newsletter is available online. Download it here.

Collective decision-making can be beneficial for social animal groups, but not if members share bad information.

A new paper published in the journal Animal Behavior calls for further study of the "audience effect" across animal species by using methods similar to those used in human communication research.

An SFI working group re-frames "cyber security-as-usual."

Models from ecology may have some important things to teach us about politics, competition, and our modern-day social echo chambers. 

Scientists discuss the importance and future of 'sherpas' for researching complex intelligence.

Through a new online social circle research panel dubbed “SciFriends,” SFI Professor Mirta Galesic and her team are working to shed new light on how friends influence each others' thoughts and behaviors.

It's not just us— ancient humans had to adapt to a changing climate, too.

Circuits aren't just for electronics; living circuits exist in the biological world as well.

Philosopher and biographer Ray Monk is SFI’s Miller Scholar for 2017.

A new technique based in information theory promises to improve researchers' ability to interpret ice core samples and our understanding of the earth's climate history.

Networks evolve in different ways depending on how often "second-neighbor," or friends-of-friends, connections occur.

Professor Cristopher Moore and collaborators unveil a more accurate, efficient algorithm for internet recommendations.

Tools from human psychology could help behavioral ecologists learn about how other animals make decisions.

SFI External Professor Mahzarin Banaji has been selected to receive this year’s Association for Psychological Science’s (APS’s) William James Fellow Award for lifetime contributions to the basic science of psychology.

This week at SFI, a multidisciplinary group of experts is gathered at SFI to work toward a quantitative science of how living things process energy and information to solve problems.

A new research program at SFI looks at laws as operating systems for human societies.