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 ...

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 grid is in crisis. A century-old system for generating, distributing, and regulating electricity cannot cope with coinciding pressures of electrification, decarbonization, enormous demand from ...

SFI External Professor Laurent Hébert-Dufresne (University of Vermont) has been named the 2026 recipient of the Young Scientist Award for Socio- and Econophysics by the German Physical Society (DPG).

SFI External Professor Santiago Elena has been elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology. The American Academy of Microbiology is the honorific leadership group within the American ...

A mystery novel, a history book, and a fantasy epic may have little in common in plot or style. But count the words inside them and a strange regularity appears: many new words show up early, then ...

A century ago, the section of U.S. federal law governing public health and welfare was relatively small and loosely connected to the rest of the legal system. Today, it is one of the largest and most ...

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 ...

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 ...