From Ringing Black Holes to Restoring Gut Health: Science at Simons in 2025

Simons Foundation president David Spergel talks about the evolving landscape for science philanthropy, his outlook for the research enterprise, and remaining hopeful in an uncertain time.

Tensor networks grapple with the complexities of both quantum particles and machine learning.

New York aims to democratize access to hardware often limited to federal labs and Big Tech.

A new paper, researchers at the Flatiron Institute, NYU Langone, and Rutgers University propose that sensory neurons are not just passive filters but active, “self-supervised learners“. Their job is to find hidden structures in the dynamic flow of sensory data, effectively sorting the present moment based on its shared history or its likely future.