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  1. CCQ Distinguished Research Scientist Angel Rubio Elected Fellow of European Academy of Sciences

  2. Machine Learning Cracks Quantum Chemistry Conundrum

  3. CCQ Co-Director Andrew Millis and Simons-Supported Researchers Elected to the National Academy of Sciences

  4. Mutations in Uncharted Territory

  5. Simons-Funded Researchers Elected as 2020 Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

  6. Deciphering the Brain’s Algorithms

  7. The Flatiron Institute: A Home for Computational Sciences

  8. A Reckoning for Moore’s Law

  9. Flatiron Institute’s David Spergel Named a Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society

  10. The Universe’s Dark Expanding Mystery

  11. Many’s Not Too Many Anymore for Quantum Systems

  12. Our Solo System: Exoplanets Reveal How Unique We Are

  13. Beauty and the Brain

  14. You’re Not All Human: The Wonder of Gut Microbes

  15. Event Horizon Telescope Team Awarded Einstein Medal

  16. The Milky Way’s Impending Galactic Collision Is Already Birthing New Stars

  17. LIGO-Virgo Network Catches Another Neutron Star Collision

  18. Unexpected Forces Cause Rotor Proteins To Self-Organize

  19. Columbia University, Flatiron Institute, Max Planck Society Launch Max Planck–New York City Center for Nonequilibrium Quantum Phenomena

  20. Bioengineer Stanislav Shvartsman Heads CCB’s New Developmental Dynamics Group

  21. CCQ Director Antoine Georges Awarded Rahman Prize for Computational Physics

  22. ‘Ringing’ Black Hole Validates Einstein’s General Relativity 10 Years Ahead of Schedule

  23. Mystery Solved About the Machines That Move Your Genes

  24. A Stellar Stream in the Milky Way Provides Evidence of Dark Substructure

  25. Pair of Supermassive Black Holes Discovered on a Collision Course

  26. The First AI Simulation of the Universe Is Fast and Accurate — and Even Its Creators Don’t Know How It Works

  27. A Genome-Wide Assessment of Noncoding Risk Variants in Autism

  28. Laser-Controlled Novel Superconductors Could Help Pave the Way to Quantum Computers

  29. New Causes of Autism Found in ‘Junk’ DNA

  30. Simons-Supported Researchers and Advisory Board Member Elected to the National Academy of Sciences

  31. American Academy of Arts and Sciences Elects Simons-Supported Researchers as 2019 Fellows

  32. How ALS Progresses on Genetic and Cellular Level Revealed by High-Res Spinal Cord Study

  33. Michael Shelley Named Director of Center for Computational Biology

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

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

  36. Gravitational Waves Will Settle Cosmic Conundrum

  37. How Black Holes Power Plasma Jets

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

  39. Stéphane Mallat Appointed as CCM Distinguished Research Scientist

  40. Enormous ‘Ghost’ Galaxy Spotted on Outskirts of Milky Way

  41. DNA ‘Dances’ in First Explanation of How Genetic Material Flows Through a Nucleus

  42. Pint-Size Planetary Systems Aren’t Into Heavy Metal

  43. Visiting Researcher Program – Center for Computational Astrophysics

  44. Flatiron Institute Hosts National Science Foundation Workshop on the Plasma Physics of Neutron Star Mergers

  45. Flatiron Institute Launches Center for Computational Mathematics

  46. Watch: Simulations of Stellar Geysers From Luminous Blue Variable Stars

  47. Elusive Origin of Stellar Geysers Revealed by 3D Simulations

  48. Gaia Data Releases Spark Open-Access Success