Henry Yuen is developing a new mathematical language to describe problems whose inputs and outputs aren’t ordinary numbers.

Michel van der Aa’s “Theory of Flames” originates from a question: “How can we relate to people if we don’t believe in the ...

Doyne Farmer says a super-simulator of the global economy would accelerate the transition to a green, clean world.

Four Indian American researchers — Aayush Jain, Arun Kumar Kuchibhotla and Aditi Raghunathan from Carnegie Mellon University ...

The race to develop a virtual scientist—an AI creation that conducts every stage of research, from idea to publication—has ...

In his new book, “A World Appears,” Michael Pollan argues that artificial intelligence can do many things—it just can’t be a ...

You don't need to be an engineer to think like one — but mastering their way of solving complex problems can transform how ...

Education shapes how societies respond to climate risk, how communities build resilience, and how economies adapt to uncertainty.

Is the scientific method really the best approach to learning about the world? A new paper in Collective Intelligence applies the scientific method to itself, finding that some common strategies that ...

His new book, about the mystery of consciousness, strengthens the case that technology will never truly replicate humans.

Eight University of Chicago scholars have earned Sloan Research Fellowships, which recognize early-career scholars’ potential to make substantial contributions to their fields.

Sometimes a visually compelling metaphor is all you need to get an otherwise complicated idea across. In the summer of 2001, a Tulane physics professor named John P.