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Founded in 2014, the Simons Society of Fellows is a community of scholars that encourages intellectual interactions across disciplines and across research centers in the New York City area.
Senior Fellows are distinguished scientists based in New York City. Junior Fellows are outstanding young scientists who receive support from the foundation for three years to conduct independent research at an institution of higher learning in New York City, with no teaching obligations.
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In a once unimagined accomplishment, electrodes implanted in the man’s brain transmit signals to a computer that displays his words.
Researchers suspect that some songbirds use a “quantum compass” that senses the Earth’s magnetic field, helping them tell north from south during their annual migrations.
Landscapes around you may appear static, but research using lasers suggests even the most steady terrain is creeping along.
Rosemary Cater, a Simons Society of Fellows Junior Fellow, describes how a newly obtained three-dimensional structure of a protein offers hope for drugs that can deliver neurological therapeutics to the brain.
