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

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

  3. CCN Research Scientist Alex Williams Named McKnight Scholar

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

  5. Quantum Physicists Tune Material’s Property Using Energy of ‘Empty’ Space

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

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

  8. Flatiron Institute Becomes New Hub for Stellar Evolution Software Suite MESA

  9. New Model Predicts How Bacteria Navigate Obstacles To Spread

  10. Atacama Cosmology Telescope Publishes Final Major Data Release

  11. CCM Researchers Win Competition To Map Neural Connections in Fruit Fly Brain

  12. CCN’s NeuroRSE Group Hosts 2 Software Workshops

  13. CCM Scientist Jiequn Han Receives Early Career Prize From Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics

  14. CCM Group Leader Marsha Berger Named 2025 John von Neumann Prize Lecturer by Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics

  15. CCA Researcher Lorenzo Sironi Receives Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

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

  17. CCQ’s Nicolas Regnault Named American Physical Society Fellow

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

  19. First Dish Built for South Africa’s HIRAX Radio Telescope Array

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

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

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

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

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

  25. Max Planck-New York Center on Non-Equilibrium Quantum Phenomena Renewed

  26. Space Probe Proposed by Team Including CCA Scientist Reaches Final Round of $1B NASA Mission Selection

  27. Flatiron Initiative for Computational Catalysis Co-Director Timothy Berkelbach Receives 2025 ACS Award in Pure Chemistry

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

  29. Flatiron Research Fellow Aavishkar Patel Named Finalist for Blavatnik Regional Award for Young Scientists

  30. CCN Director Eero Simoncelli Awarded Swartz Prize

  31. Former CCQ Flatiron Research Fellow Riccardo Rossi Awarded 2024 Hermann Kümmel Early Achievement Award in Many-Body Physics

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

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

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

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

  36. Flatiron Institute Launches Initiative for Computational Catalysis

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

  38. 2 Neuroscience Laws Governing How We Sense the World Finally United After 67 Years

  39. Amin Nejatbakhsh Named Leon Levy Scholar in Neuroscience

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

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

  42. CCM and CCN Researchers Awarded Outstanding Paper Award at the International Conference on Learning Representations

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

  44. CCA Director Julianne Dalcanton Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

  45. Researchers Crack Mystery of Swirling Vortexes in Egg Cells

  46. CCQ Distinguished Research Scientist Angel Rubio Awarded Spanish National Research Prize

  47. Flatiron Institute’s LaToya Anderson Named a Top Student Presenter at APS March Meeting

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