Cormac McCarthy publishes his first science nonfiction in Nautilus
Cormac McCarthy, the celebrated American novelist and a senior fellow at SFI, is publishing his first-ever non-fiction science essay in Nautilus magazine.
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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.
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.
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.
An analysis of conflicts within a community of pigtail macaques shows how agitated monkeys can precipitate critical, large-scale brawls.
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.
For her central contributions to food web analyses, SFI Professor and Vice President for Science Jennifer Dunne has been selected as a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America for 2017.
SFI researchers examine cellular physiology to understand just how little energy life needs to survive.