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

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

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 ...

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 ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered an ancient and dramatic head-on collision between the Milky Way and a smaller object, dubbed the “Sausage” galaxy. The cosmic crash was a defining ...

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 ...

S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan of New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences is a probabilist who has worked on different aspects of stochastic processes. A major part of his work is ...

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 ...

About The Center for Computational Biology (CCB) of the Simons Foundation’s Flatiron Institute is actively seeking enthusiastic, full-time post-doctoral Flatiron Research Fellows to join its ...

When asked why he wanted to climb Mount Everest, legendary British mountaineer George Mallory purportedly said, “Because it’s there.” Mathematicians, says Lev Rozansky, are drawn to certain… ...

The connections between mathematics and music are many. For example, the differential equations of vibrating strings and surfaces help us understand harmonics and tuning systems, rhythm analysis tells ...