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August 08, 2018

Radiolab Tackles the Epic Journey of Reproduction By Sonia Weiser

Four people sitting on individual couches on a stage

August 06, 2018

Chern Medal Video: Masaki Kashiwara and 50 Years of Foundational Math

Masaki Kashiwara looking at a folder in front of shelves full of folders

August 06, 2018

Gauss Prize Video: David Donoho and the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics

Person sitting in an office chair and laughing while man stands in front of him and laughs and man on his left stands with his arms crossed

August 03, 2018

Systems Neuroscience Is About to Get Bonkers By David Sussillo

Portrait photo of David Sussillo

August 01, 2018

Nevanlinna Prize Video: Constantinos Daskalakis

Portrait photo of Constantinos Daskalakis

Center for Computational Biology

July 16, 2018

AI Accurately Predicts Effects of Genetic Mutations in Biological Dark Matter By Thomas Sumner

A new deep learning framework called ExPecto. Chart titled IGRM (immunity-related GTPase M)

Flatiron Institute

July 04, 2018

The Gaia Sausage: The Major Collision That Changed the Milky Way Galaxy

An impression of the encounter between the Milky Way galaxy and the smaller Sausage galaxy about 8 billion to 10 billion years ago

May 16, 2018

Imitate Your Way to the Top By Brian DePasquale

Graph showing how the cheater network (top) receives the desired output as an input. Combined with strong, random recurrent connections (black), this input allows the network to produce the desired output trivially through a set of learned output connections (red). The imitator network (bottom) does not receive an external input. Instead it must copy the activity of every neuron in the cheater network (one example is shown) by modifying its recurrent connections (red) so that it can produce the desired output