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

  2. Singing Finches Tell Us How Dopamine Levels Guide Adolescent Learning

  3. Announcing the Recipients of the 2024 Pilot and Pilot Progression Awards

  4. Simons Sleep Project Releases Data About Sleep Behaviors and Autism

  5. New Model Predicts How Bacteria Navigate Obstacles To Spread

  6. Atacama Cosmology Telescope Publishes Final Major Data Release

  7. New Research Identifies a Key Player in How Your Brain Ages: The X Chromosome

  8. Hubble Telescope’s Jaw-Dropping New Photo Mosaic Traces Andromeda Galaxy’s History

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

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

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

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

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

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

  15. High-Energy Motion Activates Nearly All Neurons in Fruit Fly Brain, Study Finds

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

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

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

  19. Hyped Signal of Decaying Dark Matter Vanishes in Updated Analysis

  20. Colossal Planet in Rare Orbit Offers Clues to Origins of ‘Hot Jupiters’

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

  22. Two Neuroscience Laws Governing How We Sense the World Finally United After 67 Years

  23. Physics-Informed AI Method Could Help Make CRISPR Safer

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

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

  26. Researchers Crack Mystery of Swirling Vortexes in Egg Cells

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

  28. Research Converging on How Young Blood Improves Old Brains

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

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

  31. SCGB Presentations at the 2023 Society for Neuroscience Conference

  32. SCPAB Presentations at the 2023 Society for Neuroscience Conference

  33. Neuroscience 2023: Presentations by SFARI Investigators

  34. How Do Our Brains Classify Similar Objects? New Theory Works Out the Details

  35. Scientists Begin Building AI for Scientific Discovery Using Tech Behind ChatGPT

  36. Bursts of Star Formation Explain Mysterious Brightness at Cosmic Dawn

  37. Researchers Create First-Ever Map of a Single Animal’s Early Visual System

  38. We Finally Know Why Quantum ‘Strange Metals’ Are So Strange

  39. Twinkling of Giant Stars Reveals How Their Innards Churn in First-Ever Simulations

  40. Clamor of Gravitational Waves From Universe’s Merging Supermassive Black Holes ‘Heard’ for First Time

  41. New Research Clarifies Connection Between Autism and the Microbiome

  42. From the bioRxiv: A Selection of Recently Posted Papers From SCPAB Investigators and Others

  43. From the bioRxiv: A Selection of Recently Posted Papers From SCGB Investigators and Others

  44. From the bioRxiv: A Selection of Recently Posted Papers From SCPAB Investigators and Others

  45. From the bioRxiv: A Selection of Recently Posted Papers From SCGB Investigators and Others

  46. Cutting-Edge Computational Study Provides ‘Gut Check’ to How We Thought Proteins Function

  47. Groundbreaking Experiment Rewinds Light Signals

  48. From the bioRxiv: A Selection of Recently Posted Papers From SCPAB Investigators and Others