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The magazine has released two collections of its award-winning reporting: “Alice and Bob Meet the Wall of Fire” and “The Prime Number Conspiracy.”

Liam Paninski describes his efforts to process calcium imaging and other neural data, an effort that he hopes will help drive a new era of data sharing.

During the STEM Matters NYC Career Day, high schoolers visited the Flatiron Institute to learn firsthand about the opportunities afforded by a science-centered education.

The physical shape of chromatin, the molecular package holding DNA, affects the process of transcription and, ultimately, the expression of genes. Biochemist Takashi Onikubo of the Simons Society …

The newfound dwarf galaxy, Antlia 2, is the largest known satellite of the Milky Way and the sparsest galaxy ever seen.

Each month, SCGB scans the bioRxiv for interesting papers from the SCGB community and beyond.

Five emerging filmmakers received grants and other critical support as part of a new program to elevate the voices of independent artists working at the intersection of science …

Better known for affecting mood, serotonin is also essential for motion. Neuroscientist Sara Fenstermacher of the Simons Society of Fellows explores how the chemical affects motor neurons and …

The Innovative Medicines Initiative, a European public-private initiative, recently awarded a €115 million five-year grant for autism research. The Autism Innovative Medicine Studies-2-Trials (AIMS …

Paul Wang, Deputy Director of Clinical Research Associates, L.L.C. (CRA), discusses the research that CRA supports, including human and animal studies using arbaclofen, a potential drug …

A new technique that uses machine learning to mute noise inherent in single-trial neural recordings will make it easier to decipher the neural code

New Simons VIP Phase 2 data were recently added to SFARI Base. This data release included data from individuals with 16p11.2 copy number variants, 1q21.1 CNVs …

Finding reveals the large-scale movement of genetic material through the nucleus of a working cell.

SFARI Investigators will be giving a number of presentations at Neuroscience 2018 in San Diego, CA (November 3–7).

Pioneer Works, a cultural center in Brooklyn, provides fertile ground for interdisciplinary interaction — and free science programming for the public.

… type of planetary system, making them an ideal place to search for life on other planets. “Low-metallicity stars have been around a lot longer,” Brewer says …

Each month, SCGB scans the bioRxiv for interesting papers from the SCGB community and beyond.

Best known for coordinating movement, the cerebellum is also essential for higher cognitive function.

The Center for Computational Astrophysics (CCA) at the Simons Foundation’s Flatiron Institute invites researchers on sabbatical to visit the CCA in 2019–2020. Located in New York …

… from around the world came together following the public announcement of the neutron star merger just a month earlier.

Traveling to the annual meeting in San Diego? Check out these talks.

At some point in a conversation, your cortex swings into action so you can respond to what you’ve heard. To understand this sensorimotor transformation, Arkarup Banerjee of …

… units came up with computational mathematics, I was dubious at first but was gradually persuaded that such a unit would act like glue, holding the whole institute …

The neuroscience of emotion needs a common framework — one that spans research in both people and animals.

Massive outbursts from stellar giants known as luminous blue variables have puzzled scientists. New 3-D simulations hint at a mechanism

Supersize eruptions of some of the biggest, brightest stars in the universe result from clumps of helium-rich material launched spaceward by intense light, simulations suggest

Thanks to the Gaia team’s immediate release of all its Milky Way measurements, data sprints at the Flatiron Institute quickly uncovered new discoveries

On September 22, 2018, Antoine Georges, the director of the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Quantum Physics, was awarded an honorary doctorate of science from the University …

Each month, SCGB scans the bioRxiv for interesting papers from the SCGB community and beyond.

New calculations and experiments show how balls ‘catch a wave’ when falling through viscous liquid near a flexible rubber sheet

On January 26, 2018, SFARI held a workshop to discuss the use of zebrafish in autism research. Experts in both rodent and fish models discussed key issues in …

SFARI is pleased to announce that it intends to fund 36 grants (15 Pilot Awards and 21 Research Awards) in response to the 2018 Pilot and Research Awards …

SFARI held its thirteenth science meeting April 8–12, 2018. SFARI investigators, collaborators and foundation staff came together to discuss recent findings in autism genetics, molecular and system …

An innovative study comparing neural circuitry in two species of fruit fly reveals why they prefer members of their own clan.

Three women mathematicians were celebrated during the inaugural World Meeting for Women in Mathematics, or (WM)²

The Science Sandbox-supported feature documentary is now available on Netflix, with a related series on Youtube.

New data were added to SFARI Gene in August 2018. This data release included updated gene scores for candidate autism risk genes, as well as the addition of …

Each month, SCGB scans the bioRxiv for interesting papers from the SCGB community and beyond.

Despite police raids, threats of arrest and a shortage of resources, mathematician Ali Nesin has built an oasis for math education in rural Turkey. For his efforts, he …

“Gonads,” a six-part series from Radiolab and producer Molly Webster, examines the incredible processes that occur within us in order to continue our species.

The 2018 Chern medal is awarded to Masaki Kashiwara for his outstanding and foundational contributions to algebraic analysis and representation theory sustained over a period of almost 50 …

David Donoho of Stanford University is award the 2018 Gauss Prize for his fundamental contributions to the mathematical, statistical and computational analysis of signal processing

The advent of inexpensive, high-quality recording equipment and the maturation of deep learning present an incredible opportunity for neuroscience; but the field needs to develop theoretical frameworks …

The brain represents different contexts by confining neural activity to parallel landscapes.

Peter Scholze of the University of Bonn receives the award for transforming arithmetic algebraic geometry over p-adic fields through his introduction of perfectoid spaces and for the …

Akshay Venkatesh of Stanford University and the Institute for Advanced Study synthesized analytic number theory, homogeneous dynamics, topology and representation theory.

Caucher Birkar of the University of Cambridge proved the boundedness of Fano varieties and contributed to the minimal model program.

Alessio Figalli of ETH Zurich contributed to the theory of optimal transport, which has applications in partial differential equations, metric geometry and probability.