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First-principles plasma simulations show that black holes can’t keep their magnetic fields, according to a new study from researchers at the Flatiron Institute, Columbia University and Princeton University.

Calculating angular velocity and the moment of inertia isn’t quite as hard as competing in the Olympic gymnastics tournament — but it’s pretty darn tough.

His discoveries deepened understanding of the basic forces at play in the universe, and he took general readers back to its dawn in his book “The First Three Minutes.”

A rapidly growing collection of software tools is helping researchers to analyse multiple huge ‘-omics’ data sets.

Researchers at NYU and the Flatiron Institute's Center for Computational Biology have uncovered how heavy, motorized objects climb steep slopes — a newly discovered mechanism that also mimics how rock climbers navigate inclines.

In a once unimagined accomplishment, electrodes implanted in the man’s brain transmit signals to a computer that displays his words.

A black hole is likely to completely consume the neutron star if the black hole is either much more massive than the neutron star or if the black hole is slowly spinning, says Brian Metzger, a theoretical astrophysicist at Columbia University and the Flatiron Institute's Center for Computational Astrophysics.

Researchers suspect that some songbirds use a “quantum compass” that senses the Earth’s magnetic field, helping them tell north from south during their annual migrations.

Landscapes around you may appear static, but research using lasers suggests even the most steady terrain is creeping along.

Rosemary Cater, a Simons Society of Fellows Junior Fellow, describes how a newly obtained three-dimensional structure of a protein offers hope for drugs that can deliver neurological therapeutics to the brain.