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  1. Largest Genome-Wide Association Study Yields Common Variants Associated With Risk of Autism

  2. Multitasking Neural Networks Balance Specialization With Flexibility

  3. 2019 Simons Fellows in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics Announced

  4. Additional Family Meetings of Rare Genetic Developmental Disorders Planned for Summer 2019

  5. How the Brain Holds On to Working Memory

  6. Watch: Eva Silverstein on String Theory, Quantum Gravity and the History of the Universe

  7. Announcing a New Hunt for Undiscovered Particles at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider

  8. Open-Source Software Tracks Neural Activity in Real Time

  9. SFARI Viewer, an Online Platform To Visualize and Analyze SFARI Genomic Data, Has Launched

  10. Can Your Microbiome Be Genetically Engineered To Make You Healthy?

  11. Scientists Provide New Insight on How the Nose Adapts to Smells

  12. Meta–Analysis of De Novo Mutations Yields Longer List of Risk Genes for Neurodevelopmental Disorders

  13. Large-Scale SSC Whole-Genome Sequencing Data Key to Identifying Statistically Significant De Novo Noncoding Variation in Autism

  14. Alterations in Neuronal Excitability Are Compensatory Changes, Not Causal Effects, in Autism

  15. SFARI Winter 2019 Pilot Awardees Announced

  16. Conference Spotlight: Cosyne 2019

  17. SFARI Gene: New Data Release

  18. Gravitational Waves Will Settle Cosmic Conundrum

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

  20. Watch: Paul Steinhardt and the New Big Bounce Cosmology

  21. Some Neurons Break the Fire-Together, Wire-Together Rule

  22. How Black Holes Power Plasma Jets

  23. How the Brain Uses Neural Sequences in Navigation, Memory and Beyond

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

  25. Widefield Calcium Imaging in Freely Behaving Rats

  26. Dopamine: Beyond the Rush of a Reward

  27. Crafoord Prize in Biosciences Awarded to SCOPE Investigator Sallie W. Chisholm

  28. Autism BrainNet Begins Distribution of New Postmortem Brain Tissue

  29. Science Action Club Creates Meaningful Science Experiences in Rural Alaska

  30. Connecting Different Realms with Representation Theory

  31. CCA’s Blakesley Burkhart Awarded Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy

  32. Watch: Simons Fellow Lisa Tran and the Future of Liquid Crystals

  33. One Artist. One Scientist. One Week to Make a Film.

  34. A New Version of SFARI Base Has Launched

  35. SPARK Workshop Discussed Digital Tools for Phenotyping Cognition and Behavior in Autism Spectrum and Other Brain Disorders

  36. SFARI Gene: New Data Release

  37. SFARI Announces 2018 Bridge to Independence Awardees

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

  39. Noncoding Mutations Contribute to Autism Risk

  40. A Tale of Two Brain Regions: Population-Level Analysis Reveals Differences Not Evident in Single Cells

  41. Stéphane Mallat Appointed as CCM Distinguished Research Scientist

  42. Watch: The Exploratorium, A Gateway to the World

  43. How Traumatic Experiences Get Inherited

  44. SFARI Facilitates Research Opportunities at Family Meetings of Rare Genetic Developmental Disorders

  45. Watch: Greg Gabadadze Discusses the Future of Physics at the Simons Foundation

  46. SFARI Workshop Highlighted Chromatin-Associated Proteins and Autism Risk

  47. SFARI 2018 Explorer Awardees Announced

  48. SFARI Workshop Revisited the Excitation-Inhibition Hypothesis of Autism