Akomolafe describes Ìdòwú in the Yoruba cosmology and how it relates to our narrow ideas for time. Through his post-activism lens, he illustrates how our “fixes” often reproduce the problem, and of...
Researchers mapped the collective activity of neurons in humans and AIs, and the shape converged on the torus. Could there be a universal geometry of intelligence? Nina Miolane, Assistant Professor...
How do the binary electronic signals of neurons give rise to subjective experience? Mathematician and machine learning researcher Nina Miolane joined science historian Claire Isabel Webb to explore...
Peter Reinhard Hansen* (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
with Neville Francis (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and Chen Tong (Xiamen University)
Discussant: Oriol González...
What is consciousness — and how might we describe it scientifically? Neuroscience can map neural activity with extraordinary detail, yet the relationship between electrical signals and subjective e...
So much of our world today can be summed up in the cold logic of “if I don’t, they will.” This is the foundation of game theory, which holds that cooperation and virtue are irrational; that all tha...
NEW YORK, December 16, 2025 — “The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear” provides a fresh framework to understand one of Shakespeare's best known tragedies. A wholly unique work of literary criticism, theo...
At just 29 years of age, Leor Zmigrod is considered the founder of a new field of science: political neurobiology. In this field, she researches the connection between political attitudes and the b...
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Roderich Moessner is director at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden. After his DPhil in theoretical physics at Oxford University, he was postdoc at Princeton, a...
Focussing on the work of 2025 Dirac Medallist Gary Horowitz, in this video ICTP Director Atish Dabholkar talks about how the generalisation of the concept of black hole to that of black strings and...