Astrophysicist Yuri Levin Heads CCA’s New Compact Objects Research Group
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Phytoplankton around Earth mapped from a high-resolution ocean and ecosystem model
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Lecture From Moonshine to Black Holes: Number Theory in Mathematics and Physics
Jeffrey Harvey, Ph.D.
University of Chicago -
Lecture Harnessing Quantum Light Science for Tabletop X-Ray Lasers, with Applications in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
Margaret Murnane, Ph.D.
University of Colorado at Boulder
Society of Fellows
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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Research Center Established to Explore the Least Understood and Strongest Forces Behind Visible Matter
From the bioRxiv: A Selection of Recently Posted Papers from SCGB Investigators and Others
In Fruit Fly Brain, A Ring for Navigation
Remembering the Life and Contributions of Fields Medalist Maryam Mirzakhani
What We're Reading
September 5
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Neighboring Exoplanets May Hold Water, Study Finds
MIT News
Observations and modeling suggest TRAPPIST-1 exoplanets may have held onto water, billions of years after their formation
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A Long Journey to Reproducible Results
Nature Commentary
Three scientists explain how their work, which took four years and 100,000 worms, led to surprising discoveries about reproducibility.
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Perspectives on Giving to Science
Science Philanthropy Alliance
Leaders from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the Leon Levy Foundation, and the Simons Foundation discuss how they give and measure success.
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AI Is Changing How We Do Science. Get a Glimpse
Science
This review of the wide scientific impact of machine-learning algorithms includes the work of Olga Troyanskaya of the Flatiron Institute's Center for Computational Biology in finding the genetic roots of autism.
