SFI Life Trustee and Chairman Emeritus Bill Miller has been elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society. Miller ...

Five millennia ago, wealth inequality — which had stayed roughly constant for thousands of years — exploded. It has stayed ...

SFI External Professors Alison Gopnik and Scott Page are among 120 new members of the National Academy of Sciences, announced ...

Collective action can be highly effective within a community, but can be harder to achieve across communities. People who ...

Hernandez-Suarez, C. M.,Castillo-Chavez, C.,Lopez, O. M.,Hernandez-Cuevas, K. In this work we consider every individual of a population to be a server whose state can be either busy (infected) or idle ...

Evidence supports the contention that humans find it costly to carry out some sorts of strategies. Such costs are unlikely to be observed directly, but various models have been proposed to represent ...

Burke, A.,Kandler, A.,Good, D. Differences between men and women in the performance of tests designed to measure spatial abilities are explained by evolutionary psychologists in terms of adaptive ...

We resolve several long-standing open questions regarding the power of various types of finite-state automata to recognize "picture languages," i.e. sets of two-dimensional arrays of symbols. We show ...

In an attempt to understand the origin of relaxor ferroelectricity, it is shown that interesting behavior of the onset of nonergodicity and of precursor nanodomains, found in first-principles ...

Sarkar, R. R.,Maithreye, R.,Sinha, S. Complex regulation of biochemical pathways in a cell is brought about by the interaction of simpler regulatory structures. Among the basic regulatory designs, ...