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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.

Will Farr of the Flatiron Institute's Center for Computational Astrophysics discusses newly published research that confirms the 'area law,' which says that a black hole’s surface area cannot decrease over time.

Mathematicians at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology are asking cryptographers around the world to develop algorithms that could resist new threats posed by quantum computers.

Circumstantial evidence could point to a mind-blowing solution to an antimatter mystery — or to the need for better space-based particle physics experiments.

Quantum machine-learning techniques speed up the task of classifying data delivered by a small network of quantum sensors.