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How do we square the seemingly incompatible goals of trusting online mechanisms with a desire for anonymity?

Finding a theory that unifies all interactions among particles, including gravitation, is the Holy Grail of physics, said SFI Distinguished Fellow and co-founder Murray Gell-Mann during a recent visit to Singapore.

SFI Professor Luis Bettencourt remarks on a new paper evaluating the difficulty of protecting an individual's privacy in a age of cell phone ubiquity and the wealth of data it produces.

SFI's James O'Dwyer remarks on a recent paper that provides new evidence that diversification might not be driven by selection.

Artifacts tell a story about the growth, collapse, and change of social networks in the late pre-Hispanic Southwest, according to an article published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Forbes contributor Steve Denning reviews past financial bubbles, as early as the tulip bubble of 1636, and agrees with SFI External Professor W. Brian Arthur that economies react to technological revolutions in predictable phases.

A new study co-authored by SFI External Professor Marcus Feldman demonstrates that not only is long-term evolution possible, but long-term evolutionary outcomes can be surprisingly predictable.

A recent book co-authored by SFI External Professor David Wolpert explores how decisions made in both natural and artificial systems often differ from those recommended by Bayesian decision theory.

SFI External Professor Doyne Farmer reviews the basics of complex systems and describes some of the commonalities between financial market behavior and principles at work in physics and nature.

Science writer George Johnson, in his science blog "Fire In the Mind," reviews the origins of SFI in a post about humankind's relentless search for order in the universe.

In a 2012 World Economic Forum video, SFI Distinguished Professor Geoffrey West describes the hidden mathematical rules that govern urbanization. Watch the video.

Projections suggesting the world human population will stop growing around 10 billion people at the end of this century are improbable, according to new research by SFI Postdoctoral Fellow Marcus Hamilton and collaborators.

Whales are so much bigger than elephants in part because of the medium in which they live, according to recent modeling of the evolution of species size by SFI External Professor Aaron Clauset.

The recent discovery of 13 new families of solutions to physics' venerable "three-body problem" prompts a review of previously discovered solutions, including SFI Professor Cris Moore's "Figure-Eight Family."

Agent-based models provide a more realistic way to model an economy, says SFI External Professor Doyne Farmer in a PNAS article that reviews their use in science and industry.

Researchers from SFI and MIT have evaluated six economy of scale "laws" against observed data for 62 technologies and found that they do fairly well in predicting relationships between the scale and cost of technological production.

People born during three major 20th century famines were more likely to develop diabetes later in life, says a new study by SFI External Professor Stefan Thurner and collaborators.

Sea surface temperatures in the tropical South Atlantic can be used to accurately forecast malaria epidemics in northwestern India, an SFI External Professor and her colleagues have found.

SFI External Professor Andrew Dobson and collaborators have developed a model that can identify the prospects for nearly any disease-causing parasite as the Earth grows warmer.

One of literature’s oldest mysteries is a step closer to being solved after a recent study that dates the The Iliad to 762 BCE and adds a quantitative means of testing ideas about history by analyzing the evolution of language.