What is nowadays ubiquitously referred to as complexity emerges in a wide variety of natural, artificial, and social systems. This very rich concept is nontrivial to understand and is therefore hard ...

Last month, a workshop on the Science of History met to explore a series of provocative questions: How do laws and regularities in a domain like physics differ from those in human history? How ...

This spring, the Santa Fe Institute’s Board of Trustees elected Ian McKinnon and Sam Peters as Board Chair and Vice-Chair, respectively. McKinnon and Peters, who both grew up in New Mexico, have ...

<p>Many people have experienced firsthand the idea that &quot;fashion comes back,&quot; from bell-bottom jeans to mini-skirts. Historically, a lack of quantitative data posed a barrier to explicit ...

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Valverde, S.,Sole, R. V. Cities need to change to survive. As living beings that are constantly replacing their cells, rebuilding their veins and arteries, and pumping energy and matter or producing ...