Articles

Global Brain

August 25, 2021

Scoring the Brain: How Benchmark Datasets and Other Tools are Solving Key Challenges in Neuroscience By Brian DePasquale

A digital illustration of a blue human brain connected to pink tubes. To the right of the brain and tubes is a simplified representation of a bar graph, consisting two sets of pairs of orange and purple bars.

COVID-19 Basic Science Prequels

August 25, 2021

Seeing Is Believing: Exposing the “Invisible Monster” By Alison F. Davis

2020 Annual Report

August 23, 2021

A New Simons Collaboration Probes How the Brain Ages

A digital illustration consisting of eight rows of silhouettes of a different organism against a solid background. From top to bottom and first to last, there is one row each for different groups of animals, including humans, a marsupial-like animal, mice, dogs, fish, insects, snakes, and an unidentified animal in the eighth row cut off by the frame of the image.

Center for Computational Astrophysics

August 17, 2021

Cracking a Mystery of Massive Black Holes and Quasars with Supercomputer Simulations

A digital photo of a misty, quasar-like formation in what appears to be outer space. A plus-shaped crosshairs is at the center of the formation and surrounded by a dotted circle. White text above this circle reads,

Center for Computational Astrophysics

August 16, 2021

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

A photograph of the Ophiuchus star-forming complex, an area in outer space with multiple stars of varying sizes and colors.

Center for Computational Astrophysics

August 12, 2021

Black Holes Flicker When They Eat, Revealing Their Size

A screenshot of an animation that shows an artist’s impression of an accretion disk rotating around a central unseen supermassive black hole (SMBH). The overall image looks like a gigantic circle in space with concentric

2020 Annual Report

August 10, 2021

Neuroscientists Are Tracking How Information Travels Across Our Brains

A digital illustration of three people working on laptops that connected to each other's devices with wires and placed on separate desks that, when put together, make a complete image of a human brain.

COVID-19 Basic Science Prequels

July 28, 2021

Exponentially Important: The Scientific Origins of PCR By Wendy Kagan

A photograph of DNA samples being placed in a PCR Machine by a gloved hand.