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In a cover paper in the June 20 issue of Science, SFI Professor Luis Bettencourt offers a unified, quantitative framework for understanding how cities function and grow.

SFI's 2013 Community Lecture series continued May 9 in Santa Fe, with psychologist, philosopher, author, and mother Alison Gopnik on “The Minds of Children.” Watch the video of her presentation here.

In an essay in Nautilus magazine, SFI Research Fellow Simon DeDeo describes the roles both natural and social uncertainty play in our lives and shows how mathematics can help make sense of both kinds.

SFI Omidyar Fellow Alums Caroline Buckee and Nathan Eagle are featured in an MIT Technology Review article that explores the implications of cell phone data, especially the potential blunting the spread of disease.

A new paper shows that including parasites in ecological datasets does alter the structure of food webs, but that's mostly due to an increase in diversity and complexity rather than the unique characteristics of parasites.

A paper by SFI External Professor Van Savage and collaborators shows how rising temperatures could alter the ways species interact – changes that biologists fear could destabilize entire ecosystems.

Was the mound-building settlement of Cahokia, near modern-day St. Louis, the seat of a small state or a jumbo-sized chiefdom? Experts gathered at SFI recently to try to settle the matter.

SFI Professor Paula Sabloff's anthropological research to understand Mongolians' desire for democracy is featured in the Santa Fe New Mexican.

New research by SFI External Professor Mark Pagel and collaborators shows that Ice Age people living in Europe 15,000 years ago might have used forms of common words that in some cases could still be recognized today.

Ever wonder what SFI scientists like to think about? How many countries SFI External Professors represent? Who SFI's 300-plus donors are? SFI's 2012 Annual Report contains this and much more.

A new multimedia exhibit at the Santa Fe Children's Museum gives kids a glimpse of what SFI scientists are learning about cities.

Lousy institutions persist because even the most rational people often perpetuate a status quo that leaves everyone worse off, according to a new paper in the American Economic Review by Marianna Belloc and SFI Professor Samuel Bowles.

Four Santa Fe-area high school students teamed up with three SFI scientists to study data about the effectiveness of ignition interlock devices in curbing drunken driving accidents in New Mexico, with illustrative results.

An article in the Chronicle of Higher Education explores on the intersection of philosophy and evolution and invokes the perspectives of several current and past SFI researchers about evolution, order, and complexity.

It has long been assumed that the advent of farming 12 millennia ago led to the advent of private property rights. A new paper and some mathematical modeling by SFI researchers tell a very different story.

A column in Scientific American by SFI Distinguished Professor Geoffrey West makes the case for a theory of complex systems.

In a Skoll Foundation "Dare to Imagine" video, SFI Distinguished Professor Geoffrey West offers his thoughts about innovation, cooperation, and sustainable growth.

Colin Hill, whose company GNS Healthcare is helping provide personalized medical treatment through genetic data analytics, says his summer at SFI contributed to his idea to merge chaos theory, big data, genetics, and health care.

SFI Omidyar Fellow Paul Hooper writes about his research to understand the origin of some traits that make us uniquely human, including the support of both parents and grandparents during an unusually lengthy period of child development.

SFI’s interactive science magazine, the SFI Bulletin, is now live. Our first issue of 2013, "States of Complexity," explores the increasing complexity of human society.