Jim Rutt, SFI Trustee Emeritus and Distinguished Fellow, passed away on May 27, 2026, at age 72. Rutt was an active member of ...

Present-day LLMs, such as ChatGPT and Claude, can perform complex tasks, such as writing poetry and solving difficult algebra ...

Most people favor one hand, and that hand tends to be the better one at writing, at throwing, at managing chopsticks. The ...

Much of the human world has been undergoing rapid transformative changes, characterized by the digital technologies, globalization, and the emergence of new information architectures. These in turn ...

Meeting Description: Claude Shannon’s landmark 1948 paper, “A Mathematical Theory of Communication”, took the radical step of defining information in a manner that completely eliminated meaning from ...

The Origins of the New presents a revolutionary approach to evolutionary success in all realms of life. In this groundbreaking book, Douglas Erwin takes readers on a dazzling excursion across science ...

Abstract: Almost all music is concerned with three fundamental properties: pulse, pitch, and transformed repetition. Many musical transformations are invertible, and hence generate symmetry groups.

A new paper in the journal Birds documents what may be a previously undescribed Pine Grosbeak vocalization in a pattern that ...

This event is closed to the public. How do you communicate scientific evidence accurately while ensuring it remains meaningful across cultural contexts where trust is shaped by history, lived ...

Abstract: Wind energy production is inherently variable due to the turbulent nature of atmospheric winds, posing challenges for grid stability and integration. Understanding the statistical properties ...

Cross-cultural comparisons have the potential to provide insights into the dynamics and essential mechanisms of societal change, but they are incredibly challenging to carry out. Issues of measurement ...

The Santa Fe Institute’s Complex Systems Summer School (CSSS) offers an intensive introduction to complex behavior in mathematical, physical, living, and social systems. Spanning four weeks, CSSS ...