In SFI Miller Scholar Francis Spufford's new genre-spanning novel, Nonesuch, the fate of the world rests on one woman’s ...

The grid is in crisis, facing coinciding pressures including electrification, decarbonization, enormous demand from data centers, and grid technology updates like digitalization and artificial ...

Few technologies invite quite as much discussion as AI. “Because AI is like a giant octopus with tentacles going everywhere, people want to write big hot takes. But more than enough people are waxing ...

SFI External Professor Mark Newman (University of Michigan) has been awarded the 2026 John von Neumann Prize from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) for his contributions to the ...

This event is closed to the public. Abstract: Quantum physics and modern cosmology emerged almost simultaneously a century ago, yet they largely evolved along separate paths. Today, these frameworks ...

SFI External Professor Laurent Hébert-Dufresne (University of Vermont) has been named the 2026 recipient of the Young Scientist Award for Socio- and Econophysics by the German Physical Society (DPG).

This event is closed to the public. I propose an alternative formulation of the question addressed by the working group “Is liberal democracy sustainable?,” that will be meeting simultaneously with ...

This event is closed to the public. Fungi grow as networks of hyphae—filamentous structures partitioned by septa that regulate and redirect the flow of information and nutrients. This biological ...

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SFI External Professor Laurent Hébert-Dufresne (University of Vermont) has been named the 2026 recipient of the Young ...

“. . . the true heir to Melville and Faulkner." —Harold Bloom, literary critic. "Today feels to me like a terrible disaster where many of us lost a good friend, the Santa Fe Institute lost one of its ...