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

Under a partnership, the Simons Foundation, Anthropic and OpenAI will commit $15 million in combined funding and resources. The foundation will manage and award funding, including through an open call ...

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

The Simons Foundation is now accepting applications from undergraduate students to participate in its Shenoy Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Neuroscience (SURFiN) program for the 2025–2026… ...

The installation of the Large Aperture Telescope’s colossal primary and secondary mirrors (each roughly 6 meters in diameter) successfully took place at the Simons Observatory’s site in Chile in ...

The Simons Foundation’s Mathematics & Physical Sciences division announces the nine recipients of this year’s Targeted Grants to Institutes. The grants support established institutes and centers in… ...

For many, math is a distant memory — one of classrooms and tricky equations. But math is also a gateway to many things, including careers in STEM, and many young people often don’t have access to the ...

The Simons Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of the Simons Collaboration on the Physics of Learning and Neural Computation. The collaboration will employ and develop powerful tools from… ...

Sabbatical research leaves provide mathematicians with opportunities for intellectual stimulation and collaboration that foster innovative research. Recognizing this, the Simons Foundation’s ...

While popular AI models such as ChatGPT are trained on language or photographs, new models created by researchers at the Flatiron Institute and other members of the Polymathic AI collaboration are ...

With those unanswered questions in mind, the Simons Foundation and Simons Foundation International have launched a new collaborative research program to advance our scientific understanding of methods ...

The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience has selected Associate Research Scientist Alex Williams of the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Neuroscience as a 2025 McKnight Scholar.