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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.

The Santa Fe Institute again has ranked among the world's top science and technology think tanks.

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.

Following an SFI discussion of recent events, President David Krakauer expresses unwavering commitment to the free exchange of ideas in a complex world.

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.

On September 30, 2016, SFI's Jeremy Sabloff was appointed the next Chair of the Cultural Property Advisory Committee.

Starting February 13, SFI's Complexity Explorer brings back a popular, and free, Massive Open Online Course (MOOC).

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.

During a January 24 talk in Santa Fe, neurobiologist Christof Koch presented a theory about which brains can experience consciousness and which cannot. Watch his talk here.