Living cells are fundamentally nonequilibrium systems, meaning they constantly spend energy through seemingly one-way, irreversible processes, such as transcribing DNA into RNA, to keep life going.

SFI External Professor Mark Newman (University of Michigan) has been awarded the 2026 John von Neumann Prize from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics for his contributions to the ...

In SFI Miller Scholar Francis Spufford's new genre-spanning novel, Nonesuch, the fate of the world rests on one woman’s ...

The grid is in crisis, facing coinciding pressures including electrification, decarbonization, enormous demand from data centers, and grid technology updates like digitalization and artificial ...

Few technologies invite quite as much discussion as AI. “Because AI is like a giant octopus with tentacles going everywhere, people want to write big hot takes. But more than enough people are waxing ...

This event is closed to the public. After a brief historical perspective on the observations and theoretical arguments that made dark matter an essential element of the standard cosmological model, I ...

Motivation The gut microbiome plays an important role in human health and disease, prompting large-scale studies that generate extensive datasets. A critical preprocessing step in analysing such ...

Trancik, Jessika E.; Erin Baker; Gregory Nemet; Magdalena M. Klemun; Rebecca J. Hanes; Kavita Surana; Doug Arent; Samuel F. Baldwin; Steven A. Gabriel and Steven W. Popper Governments and companies ...

This event is closed to the public. Practically all modeling and inference problems entail a vexing problem: the available information is usually too complex and insufficient to ensure a unique ...

This event is closed to the public. Fungi grow as networks of hyphae—filamentous structures partitioned by septa that regulate and redirect the flow of information and nutrients. This biological ...