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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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Scholars globally are feeling the heat from politicians. They should take inspiration from scientists in the 1950s who raised the alarm over nuclear weapons.
Experimental findings will be either boring or extremely dangerous, argues philosopher Preston Greene of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
One third of our food is lost or wasted. With growing pressure on our arable lands, we will need to change our habits, concludes the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in a report released today.
Analysis of Kepler data has found 800 transiting exoplanets; 154 of them "reciprocally transit," meaning that observers there could detect planets of our solar system in the same way.
