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Flatiron Institute astrophysicist Shirley Ho weighs in on new research showing that, contrary to conventional wisdom, retraining earlier levels of the algorithm often achieves better results than retraining later ones.

In a new experiment, scientists measured a magnetic property of the electron more carefully than ever before, making the most precise measurement of any property of an elementary particle, ever.

Researchers demonstrate for the first time that using more qubits can lower error rate of quantum calculations.

The way we teach quantum theory conveys a spookiness that isn’t actually there, argues Chris Ferrie of the Center for Quantum Software and Information at the University of Technology Sydney.

Entangled photons that travel in corkscrew paths have resulted in holograms that offer the possibility of dense and ultrasecure data encryption, researchers report in a study to appear in Physical Review Letters.

Scientists, including members of the Simons Collaboration on the Origins of Life, are abandoning conventional thinking to search for extraterrestrial creatures that bear little resemblance to Earthlings.

The Simons Foundation is providing annual grants to the country’s chemists, biologists, physicists and mathematicians. These funds are meant to help sustain hundreds of Ukrainian scientists whose work was disrupted when Russia invaded their country last year.

The physics community has begun to consider what they want to do next, and why. That is the mandate of a committee appointed by the National Academy of Sciences, called Elementary Particle Physics: Progress and Promise.

Flatiron Institute astrophysicist Matteo Cantiello weighs in on recent research that finds magnetic fields and turbulence amplify each other inside stars’ hidden layers, slowing down the stellar cores’ spin.

Astrophysicists at the Flatiron Institute and their collaborators have announced the discovery of two active supermassive black holes close to Earth.