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The complex web of predator-prey relationships in the Adriatic Sea have shifted, suggesting human harvesting is taking a toll, according to research by SFI Professor Jennifer Dunne and colleagues.

SFI Trustee Cormac McCarthy has eradicated semicolons, exclamation points, and other prose problems as a volunteer copy editor for two recent books about science.

Research by SFI Professor Jennifer Dunne is the first to examine in detail the feeding habits of human hunter-gatherers in the food webs on which they depended. She is presenting her work Saturday at the AAAS meeting in Vancouver, BC.

In a video interview at CERN, SFI Distinguished Fellow Murray Gell-Mann discusses supersymmetry, the Higgs field, simplicity vs. complexity in physics, and SFI-style collaboration.

In a study in the New Journal of Physics, researchers constructed a network from market transaction data that allowed them to identify investor heading behaviors, an approach they believe could lead to insights about how stock price is determined.

SFI Omidyar Fellow James O'Dwyer argues that mathematics, combined with an ecological way of thinking, can help humankind better understand diversity in both ecological and human settings.

An article in The Daily Beast calls SFI "America's smartest lunch" and describes how the convergence of scientists, humanists, and other scholars fosters the Institute's signature freestyle forms of collaboration.

In a video interview, SFI President Jerry Sabloff says the language of mathematics has made it possible for researchers from half a dozen fields to ask new questions about social complexity.

The Institute has named two longtime SFI-affiliated researchers, Cris Moore and Luis Bettencourt, to its full-time resident faculty.

The tension between contingency and the regularities that underlie historical processes is a key to understanding many complex systems. SFI's 2012 Bulletin, now online, explores the interplay of time and chance.

SFI External Professor David Krakauer and SFI Omidyar Fellow alumnus Nathan Eagle are among Wired magazine's "2012 Smart List" of 50 people who will change the world.

Rather than improving at a (merely) exponential rate as some have theorized, information technology improves superexponentially -- which is to say, its progress accelerates -- according to SFI research.

Two SFI researchers are among an international team of scientists asking how fast mammal species have grown since the dinosaurs, how fast some species have shrunk, and why.

All living organisms collect information from their environments and use it to adapt. SFI Omidyar Fellow Simon DeDeo likes to think of this as a form of “natural computation.”

At a session of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, SFI External Professor Scott Page explored how the proliferation of data about our movements and preferences will have profound impacts on politics, marketing, infrastructure design, and many other spheres.

At a session of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, SFI scientists described ways the latest research in complex systems might enhance the resilience and control of economic, social, and cyber systems.

At a session of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, SFI External Professor Stephanie Forrest offered insights about cybersecurity, drawing inspiration from biology.

At a session during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, SFI External Professor W. Brian Arthur offered insights about the impact of technologies that have the ability to disrupt economic systems.

In a recent paper, two SFI researchers and their collaborators suggest ways some animals’ developmental responses to a warmer climate may inhibit their abilities to thrive.

SFI External Professors Herbert Gintis and Jessica Flack weigh in on the challenges of understanding self-regarding versus cooperative behavior.

SFI External Professor Mercedes Pascual and colleagues have created a model that can forecast cholera outbreaks nearly a year before they happen in Bangladesh, giving public health officials more time to prepare.

Bizcommunity (South Africa) calls the burgeoning digital "second economy," described by SFI External Professor W. Brian Arthur in an October 2011 McKinsey Quarterly essay, one of the most significant business trends of 2012.

Cities are open systems whose free-flow of people and ideas continually rejuvenates them, whereas corporations are closed systems that peak and die, according to an InformationWeek article that cites SFI's cities research.

By constructing models of the microbial communities inside the human digestive system, a team led by SFI External Professor Elhanan Borenstein has revealed key differences between the microbial network interactions in the guts of lean and obese people.

In a radio interview, SFI President Jerry Sabloff discusses SFI's signature style of scientific collaboration, and what scientists are learning about the evolution of intelligence, cities, and social complexity.