Anthropocene: People like the idea of being green. But they hate being told what to do even more.
Features SFI Resident Professor Samuel Bowles and External Professor Katrin Schmelz.
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National Geographic: Science Fiction Warned AI Could End Humanity. We May Soon Learn If It's Possible.
Quotes SFI Resident Professor Melanie Mitchell
Nature Sustainability: Behaviourally informed climate policy
Features SFI Resident Professor Samuel Bowles and External Professor Katrin Schmelz.
The Oxford Magazine: Meet the Oxfordshire People Recognized in the New Year Honours 2026
SFI External Professor Wendy Carlin is appointed Dame Commander.
Science Friday: Tangling With Entanglement and Other Big Ideas in Physics
Interview with SFI Fractal Faculty member Sean Carroll.
The New York Times: How the Pandemic Lockdowns Changed a Songbird’s Beak
Quotes SFI External Professor Pamela Yeh.
National Geographic: The Biggest Scientific Breakthroughs of the Last 25 Years—and a Few to Watch
Quotes SFI External Professor France Córdova.
The Conversation: Even With Trump’s Support, Coal Power Remains Expensive—and Dangerous
Analysis co-authored by SFI External Professor Seth Blumsack.
IEEE Spectrum: Are We Testing AI’s Intelligence the Wrong Way?
Interview featuring SFI Resident Professor Melanie Mitchell.
Undark: Opinion—Science Needs to Embrace the Idea of Style
Essay by SFI Resident Professor C. Brandon Ogbunu.
Pitchfork Economics: CORE Econ: Rewriting Econ 101 for the Real World
Podcast interview with SFI External Professors Wendy Carlin and Suresh Naidu
Los Angeles Review of Books: Is There Anything “Artificial” About Artificial Intelligence?
Interview with SFI External Professor Blaise Agüera y Arcas
Machine Learning Street Talk: Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute 2025
Lecture by SFI President David Krakauer
Undark: The Increasingly Complex Science of Political Identity
Essay by SFI Resident Professor C. Brandon Ogbunu, cites research co-authored with SFI Postdoctoral Fellow Andrew Stier
Nautilus: When Do People Speak Out Against Tyranny?
Quotes SFI External Professor Stephanie Forrest
The New York Times: Moon Duchin on the ‘Mathematical Quagmire’ of Gerrymandering
Features SFI External Professor Moon Duchin
Quanta Magazine: Carlo Rovelli’s Radical Perspective on Reality
Profiles SFI Fractal Faculty Carlo Rovelli
Quanta Magazine: Shark Data Suggests Animals Scale Like Geometric Objects
Quotes SFI External Professor Brian Enquist
Sean Carroll’s Mindscape Podcast: 332 | Dmitri Tymoczko on the Mathematics Behind Music
Features SFI External Professor Dmitri Tymoczko; hosted by Fractal Faculty Sean Carroll
Undark: Reflecting on the ‘Crime Gene’ Conference, 30 Years Later
Written by SFI Resident Professor C. Brandon Ogbunu