Interest in artificial intelligence is driving a proliferation of research into the nature of intelligence. Researchers at ...

In March, SFI External Professor Aaron Clauset (University of Colorado Boulder) received two notable honors: he was elected a ...

Pathogen emergence is a complex multifactorial phenomenon that poses a major threat to public health. To date, the underlying molecular mechanisms and ecological drivers controlling this non-linear ...

SFI External Professor Laurent Hébert-Dufresne (University of Vermont) is the 2026 recipient of the Erdős-Rényi Prize, the ...

A chair can still look like a chair even when its surface is reduced to a sparse cloud of points. Humans are remarkably good at recognizing objects from this kind of minimal 3D information. A new ...

Human intelligence involves many dimensions: we interact socially, learn quickly from other people, and determine how tasks fit together, as well as physically interact with and intervene in the real ...

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 ...

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).

The race to develop a virtual scientist — an AI creation that conducts every stage of research, from idea to publication — has consumed researchers, start-up founders, and tech juggernauts alike. It ...

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 ...