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Linguistic conventions, such as the French tu-vous distinction, often signify social inequality. In new research, Sam Bowles and colleagues investigate why some such conventions fade over time while others persist as stubbornly as inequality itself.

Actors presented select scenes from Marin Gazzaniga’s play exploring deeply held assumptions about religion and belief at The Lensic Performing Arts Center on May 9.

In 2016, the postdoctoral fellows at the Santa Fe Institute set out with the goal of going from a novel research question to a publication in just 72 hours. As a result, 72h(S) produced a novel line of research into the dynamics of beneficial epidemics.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

An analysis of conflicts within a community of pigtail macaques shows how agitated monkeys can precipitate critical, large-scale brawls.

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.

SFI researchers examine cellular physiology to understand just how little energy life needs to survive.