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84 Early-Career Scientists Named Faculty Scholars

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Genome Diversity Project Reveals Faster Accumulation of Mutations in Non-Africans

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Dating in the Dark and Other Unexpected Encounters with Science

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Physics of Feather Color Holds Clues to Diversity of Life

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New Tool Predicts Autism Risk Genes

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Simons Collaborations

Special Holonomy in Geometry, Analysis and Physics

This collaboration will capitalize on several recent mathematical breakthroughs related to the geometric structures associated with exceptional holonomy spaces and make use of powerful new tools for analyzing singular spaces.

The Non-Perturbative Bootstrap

Cracking the Glass Problem

It from Qubit

The Origins of Life

Many Electron Problem

The Global Brain

Algorithms and Geometry

Ocean Processes and Ecology

Homological Mirror Symmetry

Foundation Updates

Prime Numbers Reveal the Practicality of Impracticality

Understanding prime numbers can lead to many interesting applications, but overemphasizing them has its perils.

Exploring a Deep Symmetry Among Unrelated Space-Times

Distinguishing True Autism Risk Genes from Red Herrings

Station ALOHA, a Window Into the World’s Oceans

Simons Observatory to Search for Origin of the Cosmos

David Spergel to Lead New Center for Computational Astrophysics

Foundations Announce Support for Scientist-Driven Effort to Promote Use of Preprints in the Life Sciences

Tracking Shifts and Splits in Earth’s Polar Vortexes

Mind the Gaps: Improving the Science in Wikipedia

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Science Lives: Mikhail Gromov

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Mathematical Impressions: Goldberg Polyhedra

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Science Lives: László Lovász

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Mathematical Impressions: The Golden Ratio

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Jim Hudspeth

Simons Science Series: The Energetic Ear

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Science Lives: Cathleen Morawetz

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Watching Evolution Happen in Two Lifetimes

By: Emily Singer

The biologists Rosemary and Peter Grant have spent four decades on a tiny island in the Galápagos. Their discoveries reveal how new animal species can emerge in just a few generations.

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Computer Security

Hacker-Proof Code Confirmed

By: Kevin Hartnett

Computer scientists can prove certain programs to be error-free with the same certainty that mathematicians prove theorems.

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