A December 10–12 working group met to bring together researchers from two fields — neuromorphic computing and stochastic ...

Francis Spufford, an internationally award-winning writer of nonfiction and fiction, has joined SFI as Miller Scholar. A ...

In late December 2025, SFI External Professor Wendy Carlin was appointed the title Dame Commander of the Order of the British ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, biologists at UCLA documented a natural experiment as it played out among a population of dark-eyed juncos in Los Angeles. The pandemic lockdowns offered a rare chance to ...

A metabolism is a complex network of chemical reactions that converts sources of energy and chemical elements into biomass and other molecules. To design a metabolism from scratch and to implement it ...

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 ...

Mark Twain wrote, “You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” InterPlanetary seeks to restore focus at a planetary scale. What terrestrial challenge could provide greater ...

Over the past 40 years, the field of microeconomics has gone through a revolution in real-world applications, yet the theoretical models taught in Ph.D. coursework have been slow to catch up. In a new ...

Since the origins of modern philosophy and poetry, imagination has been a technical term for the human ability to cognize in images and thought combinations that reconfigure our memories or immediate ...

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 ...