Exploring complex social systems with a quantitative approach involves abstracting rich and nuanced data. Many tools for ...

We report a noise-induced delay of bifurcation in a simple pulse-coupled neural circuit. We study the behavior of two neural oscillators, each individually governed by saddle-node dynamics, with ...

It is shown that the distribution of word frequencies for randomly generated texts is very similar to Zipf's law observed in natural languages such as English. The facts that the frequency of ...

In his new monograph, Kierkegaard’s Concept of the Interesting: The Aesthetic Gulf in “Either/Or” I, SFI Research Fellow ...

Articulating and Formalizing Theories of Biological Information” met as part of an ambitious project to develop an ...

In the world of science journalism, a variety of fellowships offer opportunities to build skills, network, and find story ...

SFI External Professor Andrea J. Liu (University of Pennsylvania) is the recipient of the APS 2025 Leo P. Kadanoff Prize, the American Physical Society announced on October 15. Liu is a statistical ...

SFI External Professor Tanmoy Bhattacharya (Los Alamos National Laboratory) has been elected as a fellow of the American ...

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 ...