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 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 ...

Principal neurons of the entorhinal cortex layer II assist with memory and navigation and are among the most vulnerable to Alzheimer’s. Researchers generated a line of mice for studying ECII neurons ...

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… ...

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… ...

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 ...

This year’s Kavli Prize in Neuroscience celebrates research on how neurons form and modify neural connections to enable processes such as learning and memory. The laureates are honored for uncovering ...

Black holes are some of the most extreme places in the universe. The gravitational pull of these objects is so great that even light can’t escape them. The Simons Foundation is pleased to announce the ...