Is the scientific method really the best approach to learning about the world? A new paper in Collective Intelligence applies the scientific method to itself, finding that some common strategies that ...

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SFI External Professor Santiago Elena has been elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, joining 62 other fellows in the class of 2026, each selected for their contributions in the ...

A new study in PNAS introduces a mathematical model that quantifies how different systems, from cells to organizations, ...

The Economy as an Evolving Complex System IV, published by the SFI Press in February 2026, is the latest in a series originally launched nearly four decades ago to rethink economics through the lens ...

A century ago, the section of U.S. federal law governing public health and welfare was relatively small and loosely connected ...

Whenever an authority has influence over a population — be it a social media platform moderating user comments, a government imposing laws on its citizens, or an employer placing restrictions on ...

Figures such as a country’s gross domestic product or a city’s population size represent organizational and individual decisions over time. These statistics are useful for policymaking, but they hide ...