The fledgling democracy under the German Weimar Republic after World War I soon collapsed into Nazi authoritarianism.

This event is closed to the public. While biologists typically think of an organism's metabolism as hard-wired in its DNA, in reality a vast array of species gain access to additional forms of ...

A chair can still look like a chair even when its surface is reduced to a sparse cloud of points. Humans are remarkably good ...

More than a century of psychological research has assumed that, given constrained resources for storing information, learning ...

A chair can still look like a chair even when its surface is reduced to a sparse cloud of points. Humans are remarkably good at recognizing objects from this kind of minimal 3D information. A new ...

The brain runs on about 15 to 20 watts, less than most light bulbs, but has still managed to evolve a voracious appetite for energy. In humans, it accounts for only about one-fiftieth of weight but ...

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In a recent paper, SFI Professor David Wolpert, SFI Fractal Faculty member Carlo Rovelli, and physicist Jordan Scharnhorst examine a long-standing, paradoxical thought experiment in statistical ...

The NIH Research Education Program (R25) supports research education activities in the mission areas of many NIH Institutes and Centers. The overarching goal of this R25 program is to support ...

The simulation hypothesis — the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer — has long captured the public imagination. Yet most arguments about it ...

This event is closed to the public. Stories are fundamental to how people comprehend, explain, and potentially shape their lives, the lives of others, and the world around them. In the millennia since ...

This event is closed to the public. Neuromorphic Computing is a field that started three decades ago, inspired by the efficiencies of the information processing performed by biological brains. Its ...