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  1. Cracking a Mystery of Massive Black Holes and Quasars With Supercomputer Simulations

  2. Nearby Star-Forming Region Yields Clues to the Formation of Our Solar System

  3. Black Holes Flicker When They Eat, Revealing Their Size

  4. Watch: When Galaxies Collide

  5. Magnetic ‘Balding’ of Black Holes Saves General Relativity Prediction

  6. Ultrafast Microscope Observes Quick-Moving Excitation That Could Be a Long Sought Phase of Matter

  7. Record-Breaking Suite of Cosmic Simulations Aims To Identify Universe’s Parameters

  8. Julianne Dalcanton Named Next Director of the Center for Computational Astrophysics

  9. CCQ Hosts Virtual Electronic Structure Conference: July 12–July 15

  10. CCM’s Alex H. Barnett, Joakim Andén Among Authors To Win Best Paper Award at the PDSEC-21 Conference

  11. Shrinking Planets Could Explain Mystery of Universe’s Missing Worlds

  12. New Application of Artificial Intelligence Just Removed One of the Biggest Roadblocks in Astrophysics

  13. Quantum Showdown: Competing Methods of Solving Quantum Systems Put to the Test

  14. Fruit Fly Egg Takes an Active Hand in Its Own Growth, Highlighting Parallels to Mammals

  15. Computation Opens New Doors for Science

  16. Astrophysicist Blakesley Burkhart Named a 2021 Sloan Research Fellow

  17. Switching Nanolight On and Off

  18. Astrophysicist Rachel Somerville Named a Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society

  19. CCB and CCM Collaborate To Create the New Structural and Molecular Biophysics Team

  20. Eero Simoncelli Leads New Center for Computational Neuroscience

  21. Marsha Berger Joins CCM As New Group Leader

  22. Mathematics Explains How Giant Whirlpools Form in Developing Egg Cells

  23. Unveiling the Forces Behind Millions of Years of Cell Division

  24. Simons-NSBP Scholars Program 2021

  25. Announcement Regarding NASA Hubble Fellowship Program

  26. Sabbatical Visiting Researcher Program 2021–2022 – Center for Computational Astrophysics

  27. Finding Signals in the Noise With HumanBase

  28. Next-Gen Astronomical Survey Makes Its First Observations Toward a New Understanding of the Cosmos

  29. Molecular Processes in Kidney Cells May ‘Prime’ Diabetics for COVID-19 Infection

  30. Flatiron Research Fellow Jun Wang Joins the Yau Faculty of Mathematical Sciences Center at Tsinghua University

  31. Recent Research Lays Groundwork for New Generation of Galaxy Simulations

  32. Astrophysicist Blakesley Burkhart Named a 2020 Packard Fellow

  33. New Material Pushes Limits of Superconductivity’s ‘Cousin’

  34. Astrophysicist Adrian Price-Whelan Receives Blavatnik Regional Award for Young Scientists

  35. Infinitely Long Chains of Hydrogen Atoms Have Surprising Properties, Including a Metallic Phase

  36. Massive Halo Finally Explains Stream of Gas Swirling Around the Milky Way

  37. Sandwich-Like Superlattice Structures Provide New Insight Into Materials Design

  38. A Software, a Community and a Different Way To Do Science

  39. CCA’s Brian Metzger Receives 2020 Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists

  40. Quantum Physicists Crack Mystery of ‘Strange Metals,’ a New State of Matter

  41. New View of Nature’s Oldest Light Adds Fresh Twist to Debate Over Universe’s Age

  42. Artificial Intelligence Predicts Which Planetary Systems Will Survive

  43. Computing the Egg: The Effort To Calculate Biological Development

  44. The Eternal Sky (Trailer)

  45. Plasticity May Make Neurons Vulnerable to Alzheimer’s Disease

  46. Why Pulsars Shine Bright: A Half-Century-Old Mystery Solved

  47. Untangling Quantum Entanglement

  48. Cosmic Rays May Have Given Life Its Shape