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  1. A Cosmic ‘Leaf Blower’: Light-Propelled Winds Help Explain Early Universe’s Bright Galaxies

  2. Simons Foundation Launches Collaboration To Uncover How Energy Shapes Brain Computation

  3. Experiment Reveals Quantum Tug-of-War Limiting Higher-Temperature Superconductivity

  4. Simons Foundation Launches $15M Effort To Help Mathematicians Navigate AI Era

  5. 2026 Fields Medals Awarded to 4 of World’s Top Mathematicians

  6. Mathematicians Unleash Multifold Speed Boost for Supercomputer Simulations of Molecules

  7. Media Invitation: Fields Medals and Cutting-Edge Math at ICM 2026 in Philadelphia

  8. Black Hole Discoveries Abound in Newly Released LIGO-Virgo Catalog

  9. Gravity Follows Newton’s and Einstein’s Rules, Even at Cosmic Scales

  10. Scientists Capture Superconductivity’s ‘Dancing Pairs’ for First Time, Filling Gap in Decades-Old Theory

  11. Caught in the Act: Astronomers Watch a Vanishing Star Turn Into a Black Hole

  12. The Machinery That Helps Divide Your Cells Self-Organizes Like an Active Liquid Crystal

  13. Biological Brains Inspire a New Building Block for Artificial Neural Networks

  14. Hidden Order in Quantum Confusion: The Pseudogap

  15. A Tug-of-War Explains a Decades-Old Question About How Bacteria Swim

  16. These New AI Models Are Trained on Physics, Not Words, and They’re Driving Discovery

  17. Groundbreaking Simulations Show How Black Holes Glow Bright

  18. From Ring to Keyhole: Modeling How Tissues Mold the Fruit Fly’s Gut

  19. Mysterious ‘Impossible’ Merger of 2 Massive Black Holes Explained

  20. Meet Denario — An AI Assistant for Every Step of the Scientific Process

  21. Ringing Black Hole Confirms Einstein and Hawking’s Predictions

  22. Gravitational Waves Reveal Most Massive Black Hole Merger Ever Detected

  23. New Study Reveals Subclasses of Autism by Linking Traits to Genetics

  24. Physicists Cool Quantum Simulator To Record-Breaking Low Temperatures

  25. To Restore Your Gut Health, a Healthy Diet Matters Most

  26. A Vast Molecular Cloud, Long Invisible, Is Discovered Near Our Solar System

  27. Flares From Magnetized Stars Can Forge Planets’ Worth of Gold, Other Heavy Elements

  28. Simons Foundation Launches Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience

  29. New Model Predicts How Bacteria Navigate Obstacles To Spread

  30. New Datasets Will Train AI Models To Think Like Scientists

  31. We Finally Know Where Black Holes Get Their Magnetic Fields: Their Parents

  32. The Surprising Reason a Classical Computer Beat a Quantum Computer at Its Own Game

  33. Betelgeuse Betelgeuse? Bright Star Betelgeuse Likely Has a ‘Betelbuddy’ Stellar Companion

  34. A New Benchmark To Identify the Best Solutions to the Hardest Problems in Materials Science

  35. Claustrophobic Cells Slow Their Own Growth, Forming Beautiful Patterns of Concentric Circles

  36. Mysteries of the Bizarre ‘Pseudogap’ in Quantum Physics Finally Untangled

  37. Astrophysicists Use AI To Precisely Calculate Universe’s ‘Settings’

  38. New Detectable Gravitational Wave Source From Collapsing Stars Predicted From Simulations

  39. Flatiron Institute Launches Initiative for Computational Catalysis

  40. New Computational Model of Real Neurons Could Lead to Better AI

  41. Simons Observatory Begins Hunt for Echoes of the Big Bang in Universe’s Oldest Light

  42. Quantum Breakthrough Sheds Light on Perplexing High-Temperature Superconductors

  43. Citizen Scientists Help Discover Record-Breaking Exoplanet in Binary Star System

  44. Researchers Crack Mystery of Swirling Vortexes in Egg Cells

  45. Astronomers Unveil Strong Magnetic Fields Spiraling at the Edge of Milky Way’s Central Black Hole

  46. Largest-Ever Map of Universe’s Active Supermassive Black Holes Released

  47. Simons Foundation Funds More Than 100 Events for April Solar Eclipse

  48. New Astrophysics Model Sheds Light on Additional Source of Long Gamma-Ray Bursts