The brain runs on about 15 to 20 watts, less than most light bulbs, but has still managed to evolve a voracious appetite for ...

Living cells are fundamentally nonequilibrium systems, meaning they constantly spend energy through seemingly one-way, ...

Few technologies invite quite as much discussion as AI. “Because AI is like a giant octopus with tentacles going everywhere, people want to write big hot takes. But more than enough people are waxing ...

Living cells are fundamentally nonequilibrium systems, meaning they constantly spend energy through seemingly one-way, irreversible processes, such as transcribing DNA into RNA, to keep life going.

Sensory systems appear to learn to transform incoming sensory information into perceptual representations, or "objects," that can inform and guide behavior with minimal explicit supervision. Here, we ...

Motivation The gut microbiome plays an important role in human health and disease, prompting large-scale studies that generate extensive datasets. A critical preprocessing step in analysing such ...

Trancik, Jessika E.; Erin Baker; Gregory Nemet; Magdalena M. Klemun; Rebecca J. Hanes; Kavita Surana; Doug Arent; Samuel F. Baldwin; Steven A. Gabriel and Steven W. Popper Governments and companies ...

The grid is in crisis, facing coinciding pressures including electrification, decarbonization, enormous demand from data ...

Transmission is the Santa Fe Institute's real-time and ideas-based response to the COVID-19 outbreak. Many of our researchers are hard at work collaborating on the monitoring and modeling of the ...

“. . . 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 ...

In anticipation of Cormac McCarthy’s newest books, “The Passenger” and “Stella Maris” (Knopf, 2022), former SFI Miller Scholar Laurence Gonzales recollects McCarthy’s long and ongoing friendship with ...