2024 Simons Foundation Annual Report Now Available Online

The international space industry is on a growth trajectory, but new research shows a rapid increase in rocket launches would damage the ozone layer.

In 2014, mathematician Peter Lax discussed his incredible career and accomplishments as part of the Simons Foundation’s Science Lives series.

Peter Lax, an innovator in applied mathematics who left Hungary during World War II and worked on U.S. atomic bomb calculations as a college student while developing equations that would later influence fields such as medicine and weather forecasting, died May 16 at his home in Manhattan. He was 99.

The Perimeter Institute is like a concert hall where the deepest symphonies of nature are composed and performed.