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 ...

Human intelligence involves many dimensions: we interact socially, learn quickly from other people, and determine how tasks fit together, as well as physically interact with and intervene in the real ...

In a recent paper, SFI Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow Yuanzhao Zhang and co-author William Gilpin show that a deceptively simple forecasting strategy can outperform several leading machine learning ...

I do hope that I can visit [The Santa Fe Institute] again in the future -- it seems to me one of the most exciting places on earth.

Author-paid publication fees, often associated with so-called "gold" open access journals, lead to the corruption of science by incentivizing the publication of low-quality research and exacerbate ...

We study the evolution of a system of many point particles initially concentrated in a small region in d dimensions. Particles undergo overdamped motion caused by pairwise interactions through the ...

This study investigates city dynamics employing a nonextensive diffusion equation suited for addressing diffusion within a fractal medium, where the nonadditive parameter, q , plays a relevant role.

Bednar, Jenna; Maria del Rio-Chanona; J. Doyne Farmer; Jogoda Kaszowska-Mojsa; Francois Lafond; Penny Mealy; Marco Pangallo and Anton Pichler ...

We suggest a possible origin for abrupt mixed-order transitions in physical systems and demonstrate it on three different Ising models with additional different types of interactions. We identify a ...