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  1. How Did the First Supermassive Black Holes Form?

    November 10, 2016
    Simulations of giant, hot gas clouds and black hole binaries by Kohei Inayoshi of the Simons Society of Fellows offer insight into a key cosmological mystery

  2. Physics of Feather Color Holds Clues to Diversity of Life

    September 8, 2016
    Hidden in the color of birds and their mating choices, says Rafael Maia of the Simons Society of Fellows, is information that can help elucidate the evolution of …

  3. Station ALOHA, a Window Into the World’s Oceans

    May 18, 2016
    A research site in the Pacific that is essential to the Simons Collaboration on Ocean Processes and Ecology makes its mark on microbial oceanography

  4. Neural Roots of Curiosity Explored

    April 25, 2016
    How does the intense desire to know take shape in the brain? Simons Society Junior Fellow Jennifer Bussell is designing experiments to study that question

  5. Equations of Water Waves Put to the Test

    February 24, 2016
    Rather than rely on computational approximations, Ben Harrop-Griffiths of the Simons Society of Fellows uses a specific type of differential equation to understand the complex dynamics of …

  6. Tracking Shifts and Splits in Earth’s Polar Vortices

    February 10, 2016
    Aditi Sheshadri of the Simons Society of Fellows looks at the fluid dynamics of the polar vortices and how they shape weather and climate

  7. Detailed Galaxy Maps Offer Clues to Cosmic Mysteries

    November 5, 2015
    Boris Leistedt of the Simons Society of Fellows blends statistics and cosmology to grapple with the nature of dark matter and dark energy