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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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), ...

“. . . 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 ...

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 ...

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 sudden emergence of witch trials in early modern Europe may have been fueled by one of humanity's most significant intellectual milestones: the invention of the printing press in 1450. “Cities ...

Murray Gell-Mann, a Nobel laureate who revealed symmetry and order in the world of subatomic particles and leveled his genius at complex mysteries of life and mind, died peacefully May 24, 2019. He ...

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 ...