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A June working group explored ways to model interactions between organisms and a public good, where both can diffuse in space.

Two August workshops convene physicists, computer scientists, and biologists to discuss energy flow during computation.

Sophisticated network analysis means finding relationships that often aren’t easy to see. A new algorithm from an interdisciplinary team at SFI identifies relationships not only within individual layers, but also across multiple layers.

For rulers in pre-modern states, marrying the right wife was often a path to military victory.

SFI's free online course, Introduction to Dynamical Systems and Chaos with College of the Atlantic professor David Feldman, begins September 4. Topics to be covered include: phase space, bifurcations, chaos, the butterfly effect, strange attractors, and pattern formation.

A team led by SFI postdoctoral researcher Laurent Hébert-Dufresne asks under what conditions a Zika outbreak might be sustained where mosquitos play no role.

Farley Ziegler, Tim Jenison, and SFI Professor Jessica Flack presented an SFI Community Lecture on painting and optics in the 17th Century and a screening of Tim's Vermeer at The Lensic Performing Arts Center on August 1.

In a new paper published in Ibis, researchers explore why Peruvian parrots eat clay despite its apparent lack of nutritional value.

When a highly-networked research institute joins forces with a vast web of citation data, new insights are bound to emerge.

An SFI working group explores how well society is prepared to deal with the accelerating pace of technological change.

Actor-playwright-director Sam Shepard, an SFI Miller Scholar, died July 27, 2017 at the age of 73.

President David Krakauer remembers "brilliant and gracious polymath" Sam Shepard, an SFI Miller Scholar who passed away July 27, 2017.

SFI President David Krakauer talks with Forbes contributor Robert Wolcott about how changing technology shapes the human experience.

Groups of interconnected nodes, called “communities” or “modules,” represent real-world relationships like friend groups on Facebook, businesses in a supply chain. A new paper addresses the challenge of identifying whether, and ultimately where, these structures exist within a mass of data.

In a fresh look at 20th-century philosopher-economist Friedrich Hayek, three authors note how the Nobel laureate’s work exemplifies complexity economics. They also show how his political support of laissez faire economic policies needn’t necessarily follow.

In a recent paper published in Global Ecology and Biogeography, SFI External Professor John Harte, SFI Omidyar Fellow Andy Rominger, and Erica Newman, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Arizona, suggest that a theory independent of mechanistic drivers, such as sunlight, can accurately describe the distribution of species in a forest.

The Santa Fe Institute is launching an InterPlanetary Project — the first project of its kind to combine celebration with experimentation, and conversation with analysis.

Michael Mauboussin, Chair of SFI's Board of Trustees and a highly-regarded research analyst known for his expertise in corporate valuation, investment process, market inefficiencies, and behavioral economics, will join the firm BlueMountain Capital Management, LLC (“BlueMountain”) in the newly created position Director of Research.

The Wall Street Journal announces SFI Chair Emeritus Bill Miller the winner of its quarterly contest for best-performing U.S. stock fund over a 12-month period.

The Santa Fe Institute will be pursuing questions about general, universal principles of complex time with support from the James S. McDonnell Foundation (JSMF) through a five year, $2.5 million grant.