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 ...

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

Think of the economy as a giant web where every person, company, and country is linked. When something big happens — a pandemic, the rise of artificial intelligence, or a climate-driven disaster — it ...

Whenever an authority has influence over a population — be it a social media platform moderating user comments, a government imposing laws on its citizens, or an employer placing restrictions on ...

In a recent paper, SFI Professor David Wolpert, SFI Fractal Faculty member Carlo Rovelli, and physicist Jordan Scharnhorst examine a long-standing, paradoxical thought experiment in statistical ...

01/07 — 01/09 Working Group "Navigating the Space of Collective Transitions in Biology and Society," organized by Manfred Laubichler, Bryan Daniels, Colin Lynch 02/16 — 02/20 Working Group ...

Each year, several dozen people from across the United Kingdom are recognized for extraordinary achievements and service in the New Year Honours List. The 2026 List, compiled by King Charles III and ...

Every task we perform on our computer — whether number crunching, watching a video, or typing out an article — requires different components of the machine to interact with one another. "Communication ...

The simulation hypothesis — the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer — has long captured the public imagination. Yet most arguments about it ...

An Introduction to Ergodicity Economics is a new textbook that draws on physics to re-examine traditional economic theory. It begins with flipping a coin. And a hypothetical gambit. Imagine you were ...