“Academia has not found a way to provide a comfortable home for the computational sciences....” says Leslie Greengard, director of the Center for Computational Biology at the foundation's Flatiron Institute. The institute hopes to remedy that.
Chromosomes contain a blueprint for regulating all the cell’s proteins, but that blueprint is not simply lying open, waiting to be read. Rather, tiny ‘machines’ within the cell are constantly thumbing through the pages, moving DNA into useful combinations.
When gazing at far away galaxies, it can be hard to imagine the intimate interactions they once had with each other. But with data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft, the history with the Milky Way is becoming clearer.
“Early-career scientists represent the future of science in this country and the world,” Marian Carlson, director of Life Sciences, says. “If we don’t enable them to launch their careers successfully, we’ll just miss out on a generation of scientists.”
With support from the Simons Foundation and the Heising-Simons Foundation, the Simons Observatory project aims to bring cosmic microwave background experiments to the next level.
From late April to early May, oceanographers onboard the research vessel Ka`imikai-O-Kanaloa, led by Ginger Armbrust and Angelicque White, worked to test Mick Follows’ ocean ecosystems model.
How do human beings have thoughts — or make decisions? The workings of the brain have traditionally been difficult to study, but the Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain undertakes to explore them with powerful new techniques.
It is believed that between 500 and 1,000 genes underlie autism; uncovering them will require genetic information from a much larger group of families than ever previously assembled. To tackle this challenge, the Simons Foundation launched SPARK.
The Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative currently funds more than 350 researchers who carry out groundbreaking autism research.
The two editorially independent magazines funded by the Simons Foundation cover different topics, but provide in-depth coverage that mainstream media currently does not, and both strive to foster lively exchange among readers.
Math for America works to make teaching a rewarding and respected career choice for the best minds in science and mathematics.
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