The search for evidence of what happened during the universe’s first instants — and a long-sought confirmation of the theory ...

Targeted Grants to Math+AI Institutes is a one-time call to support established institutes or centers to specifically address AI challenges. This program will provide funding for the general area of ...

The Simons Foundation today announced a new set of initiatives that will help the mathematics community navigate the rapid rise of artificial intelligence in the field. Under a partnership… ...

In recognition of Vincenzo Vitelli’s groundbreaking work in materials science, the MacArthur Foundation has named the ...

Using sequencing data from the Simons Simplex Collection, Zhenglong Gu found an enrichment of predicted pathogenic mutations in mitochondrial DNA in autism.

A two-day internal conference with the goal of introducing and reviewing scientific and computational tools of broad and significant usefulness to Flatiron Institute researchers across all centers.

The Simons Foundation and publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux announce the launch of Quanta Books, a partnership imprint led by Thomas Lin, the founding editor of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Quanta ...

New work helps show why the dream of high-temperature superconductivity has been so hard to realize: a quantum brawl between ...

But it was an interesting detour, and despite their impracticality Egyptian numbers proved inspirational. In 1932, the 19-year-old Erdős, in his second published paper, generalized a theorem by the ...

To his colleagues, award-winning mathematician Andrei Okounkov’s is a “family man,” a moniker that can refer to both his parenting and his research, which brings together many branches of mathematics.

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If you pull straight back on the lower pedal of your bicycle, will the bike move forward or backward? This classic puzzle has a surprising twist, so be sure to think about it carefully before watching ...