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 ...

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.

The brain runs on about 15 to 20 watts, less than most light bulbs, but has still managed to evolve a voracious appetite for energy. In humans, it accounts for only about one-fiftieth of weight but ...

The built and natural worlds around us are full of examples of diversity from small, incremental evolutionary changes. Keyboard designs offer slightly different key spacing and press stiffness; two ...

SFI External Professor Constantino Tsallis (Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas) will serve as co-chair and synthesis lead of the 2027 Nobel Symposium in Physics, “Beyond Boltzmann: Complexity, ...

Body size greatly affects how organisms interact with their environments. However, the macroevolutionary patterns of body size across many major metazoan clades and their constraining mechanisms ...

The number and timing of births are strongly associated with the stability of available resources and the risk of extrinsic mortality. The authors suggest a verbal model to disentangle the ...

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

Galleria mellonella has emerged as an important host for the study of fungal virulence, insect immune responses, and the evaluation of antifungal agents. In this study, we investigated the dynamics of ...