In the comment article  “Space diplomacy: bridging the operating gaps between myriad missions,” which was recently published ...

In a Focus article recently published in Science Advances, SFI External Professor Samuel Scarpino (Northeastern University) ...

SFI External Professor Allison Stanger has been named a Berlin Prize Fellow by the American Academy in Berlin for the 2026–27 ...

SFI External Faculty Fellow Peter Schuster, one of the world’s leading theoretical chemists whose work laid the foundation ...

When mega-societies like Rome collapse, it shows that no group is too big to fail. New research from SFI External Professor ...

SFI Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow Kaleda Denton was among roughly 30 early-career researchers selected to participate in the ...

Most people favor one hand, and that hand tends to be the better one at writing, at throwing, at managing chopsticks. The long-standing view is that the dominant hand is “born” more capable, its ...

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 ...

In the last decade, a phenomenon in artificial intelligence known as “double descent” has surprised researchers who study learning. The expectation was that the best AI models were neither too simple ...

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 ...

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).

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 ...