The emergence of new viruses is often unpredictable, jumping as they might from infecting one species to another. A November ...

Every other month, the subscription-based indie press ISOLARII publishes a single book. ISOLARII’s distinctive palm-sized volumes offer thought-provoking texts on exquisitely crafted pages. Their ...

The Complex World, originally published in Volume 1 of Foundational Papers in Complexity Science, presents an entirely new framing of nature, of the human role in the natural and technological worlds, ...

The thermodynamic restrictions on all systems that perform computation provide major challenges to modern design of computers. For example, at present ~5% of US energy consumption is used to run ...

This paper provides a logical framework for complexity economics. Complexity economics builds from the proposition that the economy is not necessarily in equilibrium: economic agents (firms, consumers ...

A dream team of scientists — prize-winning ecologists, physicists, biologists and others from Harvard to Vienna.

For nearly a century, scientists from a diverse set of fields have been captured by questions about the origins of life. How did life, in all of its complexity, arise from comparatively simple matter?

When it comes to assessing intelligence, people have all kinds of tests — the SAT, IQ tests, and so on. There’s controversy over how fairly these tests really measure human intelligence, but at the ...

Themes are institute-wide research topics that draw together large networks of researchers from the extended SFI network and beyond. Over the course of several years, researchers rigorously engage ...

Sanjuan, R.,Agudelo-Romero, P.,Elena, S. F. It is generally accepted that mutation rates of RNA viruses are inherently high due to the lack of proofreading mechanisms. However, direct estimates of ...

There’s an argument to be made that if we train AI systems to learn the way babies do, we’ll get them closer to human-like intelligence. But how our own learning development functions in babyhood is ...