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A Cosmic ‘Leaf Blower’: Light-Propelled Winds Help Explain Early Universe’s Bright Galaxies

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Simons Foundation Launches Collaboration To Uncover How Energy Shapes Brain Computation

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Experiment Reveals Quantum Tug-of-War Limiting Higher-Temperature Superconductivity

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Simons Foundation Launches $15M Effort To Help Mathematicians Navigate AI Era

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2026 Fields Medals Awarded to 4 of World’s Top Mathematicians

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Mathematicians Unleash Multifold Speed Boost for Supercomputer Simulations of Molecules

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Media Invitation: Fields Medals and Cutting-Edge Math at ICM 2026 in Philadelphia

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Black Hole Discoveries Abound in Newly Released LIGO-Virgo Catalog

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Gravity Follows Newton’s and Einstein’s Rules, Even at Cosmic Scales

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Scientists Capture Superconductivity’s ‘Dancing Pairs’ for First Time, Filling Gap in Decades-Old Theory

Caught in the Act: Astronomers Watch a Vanishing Star Turn Into a Black Hole

The Machinery That Helps Divide Your Cells Self-Organizes Like an Active Liquid Crystal

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Biological Brains Inspire a New Building Block for Artificial Neural Networks

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Hidden Order in Quantum Confusion: The Pseudogap

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A Tug-of-War Explains a Decades-Old Question About How Bacteria Swim

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These New AI Models Are Trained on Physics, Not Words, and They’re Driving Discovery

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Groundbreaking Simulations Show How Black Holes Glow Bright

From Ring to Keyhole: Modeling How Tissues Mold the Fruit Fly’s Gut

Mysterious ‘Impossible’ Merger of 2 Massive Black Holes Explained

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Meet Denario — An AI Assistant for Every Step of the Scientific Process

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Ringing Black Hole Confirms Einstein and Hawking’s Predictions

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Gravitational Waves Reveal Most Massive Black Hole Merger Ever Detected

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New Study Reveals Subclasses of Autism by Linking Traits to Genetics

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Physicists Cool Quantum Simulator To Record-Breaking Low Temperatures

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To Restore Your Gut Health, a Healthy Diet Matters Most

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

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

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Simons Foundation Launches Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience

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New Model Predicts How Bacteria Navigate Obstacles To Spread

New Datasets Will Train AI Models To Think Like Scientists

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

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

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

The Henri Computer

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

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

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

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

New Detectable Gravitational Wave Source From Collapsing Stars Predicted From Simulations

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Flatiron Institute Launches Initiative for Computational Catalysis

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New Computational Model of Real Neurons Could Lead to Better AI

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Simons Observatory Begins Hunt for Echoes of the Big Bang in Universe’s Oldest Light

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Quantum Breakthrough Sheds Light on Perplexing High-Temperature Superconductors

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

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Researchers Crack Mystery of Swirling Vortexes in Egg Cells

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

Largest-Ever Map of Universe’s Active Supermassive Black Holes Released

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Simons Foundation Funds More Than 100 Events for April Solar Eclipse

New Astrophysics Model Sheds Light on Additional Source of Long Gamma-Ray Bursts