Jerdee focuses on building interpretable, unbiased methods for analyzing network data. Using tools such as Bayesian inference ...

Abstract: We show that innovation in U.S. counties from 1850 to 1940 was propelled by growing surname diversity. Leveraging quasi-random variation in counties' surnames---stemming from the interplay ...

Jerdee focuses on building interpretable, unbiased methods for analyzing network data. Using tools such as Bayesian inference and related probabilistic approaches, he develops models that identify ...

For nearly a century, scientists from a diverse set of fields have been captured by questions about the origins of life. How did life, in all of its complexity, arise from comparatively simple matter?

A cell is fundamentally a container—a vessel that encapsulates life at the most basic level. Many biologists believe ...

Tune in for the live stream on YouTube Abstract: The nature of the dark matter in the Universe is among the longest and most important outstanding problems in all of modern physics. The ordinary atoms ...

Swarm is a multi-agent software platform for the simulation of complex adaptive systems. In the Swarm system the basic unit of simulation is the “swarm,” a collection of agents executing a schedule of ...

“. . . 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 ...

Much of the human world has been undergoing rapid transformative changes, characterized by the digital technologies, globalization, and the emergence of new information architectures. These in turn ...

Scientists are working across disciplines to render complex reality to scientific understanding. It has been the great triumph of the sciences to find consistent means of studying phenomena hidden by ...

A recent special issue of Philosophical Transactions B takes on one of the biggest mysteries in science: how life first began ...

In the final episode of the season, Abha sits down with Melanie to hear her perspective. They chat about Melanie’s career and research with Douglas Hofstadter, the author of Gödel, Escher, Bach. They ...