Half a century ago, economic research took a little-noticed yet dramatic departure from the study of concepts most people might be familiar with from Econ 101. The field shifted from an almost ...

Extraterrestrial and artificial life have long captivated the human mind. Knowing only the building blocks of our own biosphere, can we predict how life may exist on other planets? What factors will ...

Brave thinkers willing to explore new ideas about economics, policy, and governance. Early-career scholars and change-makers from civil society and private industry are equally encouraged to apply.

Leutner, Michael; Caspar Matzhold; Luise Ballach; Carola Deischinger; Jurgen Harnleiter; Stefan Thurner; Peter Klimek and Alexander Kautzky-Willer ...

The NFL theorems have stimulated lots of subsequent work, with over 2500 citations of [12] alone by spring 2012 according to Google Scholar. However, arguably much of that research has missed the most ...

Here we show that the bacterium Escherichia coli exhibits both lineage mortality and immortality. The outcome depends on a whether a balance is achieved between damage accumulation and the asymmetric ...

Luis BettencourtPritzker Director of the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation at the University of Chicago, and External Professor at SFI R. Maria del Rio ChanonaAssistant Professor of Computer ...

Research on laboratory mice has provided much of what we know about the fundamental biology of the mammalian immune system. Yet because so few life-long experiments have been conducted on mice, we ...

Following the pedagogical structure used in SFI’s Complex Systems Summer School over the last 30 years, this program will feature a series of lectures that introduce fundamental mechanisms and models ...

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Half a century ago, economic research took a little-noticed yet dramatic departure from the study of concepts most people might be familiar with from Econ 101. The field shifted from an almost ...