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EXPLORING THE FOUNDATIONS AND BOUNDARIES OF PHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY -- FQXi catalyzes, supports, and disseminates research on questions at the foundations of physics and cosmology, particularly new frontiers and innovative ideas integral to a deep understanding of reality, but unlikely to be supported by conventional funding sources.

05/27/2026

Joshua Deutsch on why FQxI helps make space for fundamental questions that don’t fit the usual funding priorities.

05/18/2026

Gabriela Frajtag is twenty years old and recently graduated from Ilum School of Science in Brazil. She's also a winner of FQxI's "How Quantum is Life?" essay competition, a global, anonymously judged contest with a $53,000 prize pool, where she took home the Undergraduate Special Prize.

This is one segment from a longer episode featuring five prize winners from the competition.

Listen to the full podcast episode here: https://qspace.fqxi.org/podcasts/129/2026.05.13
Watch Gabriela's video chat here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN9UcRSmQHk&feature=youtu.be
Read Gabriela's essay here: https://qspace.fqxi.org/competitions/entry/2391

Why did a US$3-million-winning result leave one physicist feeling like Peanut’s character Charlie Brown, scuppered from ...
05/11/2026

Why did a US$3-million-winning result leave one physicist feeling like Peanut’s character Charlie Brown, scuppered from kicking the football at the last second by his friend Lucy?

The Foundational Questions Institute, FQxI, catalyzes, supports, and disseminates research on questions at the foundations of science, particularly new frontiers and innovative ideas integral to a deep understanding of reality, but unlikely to be supported by conventional funding sources.

Four FQxI members have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, joining the 2026 class alongside the l...
05/06/2026

Four FQxI members have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, joining the 2026 class alongside the likes of Jodie Foster, Rita Moreno, and Sundar Pichai.

Congratulations to Raphael Bousso, Hiranya Peiris, Doris Tsao, and James Owen Weatherall.

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The Foundational Questions Institute, FQxI, catalyzes, supports, and disseminates research on questions at the foundations of science, particularly new frontiers and innovative ideas integral to a deep understanding of reality, but unlikely to be supported by conventional funding sources.

04/22/2026

Bill Wootters on quantum teleportation.

04/14/2026

Happy World Quantum Day! April 14th — for the date in Planck's constant, h ≈ 4.14 × 10⁻¹⁵ eV·s.

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