In a recent paper, SFI Professor David Wolpert, SFI Fractal Faculty member Carlo Rovelli, and physicist Jordan Scharnhorst ...

Alexander Bobenko has spent the past 20 years chewing on mathematical doughnuts. In the 2000s, he tried to prove that compact ...

What if the way we pursue happiness is part of the problem? This post explores why meaning, vulnerability, and depth—not pleasure alone—create lasting well-being.

Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a study has found.

Wormholes are often imagined as tunnels through space or time—shortcuts across the universe. But this image rests on a ...

AI promises a smarter, faster, more efficient future, but beneath that optimism lies a quiet problem that’s getting worse: the data itself. We talk a lot about algorithms, but not enough about the ...

The Cities: Skylines franchise will soon be under new management following a split between publisher Paradox Interactive and developer Colossal Order. The parting of ways was announced on the Paradox ...

Paradox Interactive suffers another setback as it announces it is parting ways with Cities Skylines 2 developer Colossal Order. The developer has been working on the series for 15 years, beginning ...

Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work covers anything from archaeology and the environment to technology and culture. Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work ...

Photo-illustration by Jonelle Afurong / The Atlantic. Source: Harold M. Lambert. But perhaps ghosting—or being ghosted—doesn’t need to be so upsetting. I recall a text I received at the end of the ...