The fledgling democracy under the German Weimar Republic after World War I soon collapsed into Nazi authoritarianism.

A chair can still look like a chair even when its surface is reduced to a sparse cloud of points. Humans are remarkably good ...

More than a century of psychological research has assumed that, given constrained resources for storing information, learning ...

This event is closed to the public. While biologists typically think of an organism's metabolism as hard-wired in its DNA, in reality a vast array of species gain access to additional forms of ...

The philosopher and historian of science Thomas Kuhn distinguished between periods of “normal science” and periods of “revolution.” As he explains in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), ...

Eric BeinhockerProfessor, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford; External Professor and Chair of the Science Board, Santa Fe Institute Andrea LiuProfessor of Physics, University of ...

This event is closed to the public. The brain’s fundamental challenge is the equivalent of competing in a game show without knowing the topic, the format, the level of complexity, the strength of the ...

In anticipation of Cormac McCarthy’s newest books, “The Passenger” and “Stella Maris” (Knopf, 2022), former SFI Miller Scholar Laurence Gonzales recollects McCarthy’s long and ongoing friendship with ...

The brain runs on about 15 to 20 watts, less than most light bulbs, but has still managed to evolve a voracious appetite for energy. In humans, it accounts for only about one-fiftieth of weight but ...

The simulation hypothesis — the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer — has long captured the public imagination. Yet most arguments about it ...

David Pines, a central figure in understanding the elemental properties of condensed matter and who played a major role in birthing complexity science and founding the Santa Fe Institute, passed away ...