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August 4, 2025The Simons Foundation’s Life Sciences division is now accepting applications for its Simons Collaborations in Ecology and Evolution awards. The deadline for receipt of vision statements is … -
Funded WorkAmong the three widely known solar radiation management/modification (SRM) methods of stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI), marine cloud brightening (MCB), and cirrus cloud thinning (CCT), CCT is the …
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Funded WorkAtmospheric aerosols have a direct impact on Earth’s radiative balance through scattering and absorption of sunlight and an indirect impact through their feedback on cloud optical properties …
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Funded WorkAccelerating global warming has prompted urgent but controversial discussions about stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI), a climate intervention that involves dispersing aerosols or their precursor gases into the stratosphere …
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Funded WorkThis project aims to evaluate the feasibility of cirrus cloud thinning (CCT) as a solar radiation management (SRM) strategy by improving our understanding of existing aerosol-cirrus interactions …
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Funded WorkThe SOLACE project (Sustainable Organic and Inorganic Laboratory Aerosols for Climate Engineering) will investigate the impacts of using engineered aerosols for solar radiation management.
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July 30, 2025SFARI is pleased to announce that Simons Searchlight has released new data from over 5,600 individuals with autism and/or a related neurodevelopmental disorder. -
July 30, 2025The open-source modeling platform GeoClaw enables scientists to predict and prepare for deadly natural disasters by simulating complex geophysical flows. -
July 30, 2025A collaboration between film writer, director and editor Na’ama Keha and Flatiron Institute Research Fellow Lucia Perez provides an artful exploration of interiority and the unknown. -
July 28, 2025The Simons Emmy Noether Fellowship Program, supported by the Simons Foundation, supports and encourages early- and mid-career women and all under-represented groups in physics. -
July 23, 2025The fellowship, named in honor of foundation co-founder Jim Simons, provides research support to exceptional graduate students in mathematics. -
July 23, 2025A collaboration between documentary filmmaker and creative director Kyle Finnegan and Flatiron Institute Research Fellow Lieke van Son irreverently confronts the gravitational waves rippling through the universe, specifically … -
The New York TimesThe tempestuous star in Orion’s shoulder has a buddy, and neither of their futures look bright.
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In the NewsNew research from two UCLA professors with support from the Simons Foundation’s Math + X program opens the door to revolutionary advances — with already proven results.
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July 21, 2025Ripples in the fabric of space-time called gravitational waves generated by the event were detected by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration and analyzed by Flatiron Institute … -
Washington PostNow, thanks to a decade of observations by the Hubble Space Telescope, we have a chance to see Andromeda as never before. Early this year, NASA released a …
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Scientific AmericanObservations of a baby star may show the earliest stages of planet formation that astronomers have ever seen.
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July 16, 2025… stop+frameshift (c.2485dupA). To test if SINEUPs targeting CHD8 could be effective in vivo, the scientists turned toward an established zebrafish model of Chd8 haploinsufficiency, chd8p … -
July 16, 2025This collaboration between filmmaker and video editor Anne Sofie Nørskov and Flatiron Institute Research Fellow Mahsa Mofidi brings the vibrant world of microtubules to life. -
July 15, 2025Leaders in mathematics, science and philanthropy gathered on June 27, 2025, to remember the incredible contributions of Jim Simons and to inspire continued philanthropic support of basic research. -
July 11, 2025The International Congress of Mathematics brings together the world’s leading mathematicians for collaboration and inspiration. -
In the NewsNew data suggests that dark energy, the force driving cosmic acceleration, might be weakening with time. If so, expansion could eventually slow, stop, or even reverse.
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July 9, 2025Writer, director, producer and editor Grace Zhang and Flatiron Institute Research Fellow Bargeen Turzo partnered to create a poetic exploration of hinge proteins. -
July 9, 2025An analysis of more than 5,000 individuals with autism reveals four distinct groups that link autism-related traits with underlying genetics. The work could open the door … -
July 8, 2025The Simons Foundation is pleased to announce that mathematical physicist Robbert Dijkgraaf has rejoined its board of trustees. Dijkgraaf was a board member from 2021 to 2022 before … -
July 2, 2025Flatiron Institute astrophysicist Carrie Filion and filmmaker Em Oliver collaborated to create a film telling the story of the universe’s beauty through sound. -
July 2, 2025… which comprises around 85 percent of the universe’s mass yet fundamentally differs from any known type of matter. She is investigating whether dark matter is composed … -
July 1, 2025The Simons Foundation and Simons Foundation International have named six scientists as 2025 Simons Early Career Investigators in Aquatic Microbial Ecology and Evolution. The two-year awards are … -
July 1, 2025SFARI is pleased to launch a new RFA that aims to provide researchers with the support needed to allocate time and personnel toward working with and publishing from … -
June 26, 2025… Catherine Searle Wichita State University Khrystyna Serhiyenko University of Kentucky Romyar Sharifi University of California, Los Angeles Sug Woo Shin University of California, Berkeley Kyler Siegel University … -
June 25, 2025A collaboration between filmmaker John Marty and Flatiron Institute biomolecular scientist Vikram Mulligan explores designing custom molecules. -
June 23, 2025The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience has selected Associate Research Scientist Alex Williams of the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Neuroscience as a 2025 McKnight Scholar. The … -
June 18, 2025As the largest-ever collection of data from youth with autism who have high support needs, this resource will accelerate research into an understudied population. -
June 18, 2025The two-week-long Symbiosis program yielded six experimental short films about basic science. -
June 17, 2025Physicists at Harvard University and the Flatiron Institute have chilled a quantum system called the Hubbard model to temperatures far below those previously reached by such a system … -
June 13, 2025… aims to understand how inflammatory events and the crosstalk between immune cells and tissues shape tissue resilience or dysfunction, particularly during critical windows of life such as … -
Cosmos MagazineThe international space industry is on a growth trajectory, but new research shows a rapid increase in rocket launches would damage the ozone layer.
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June 9, 2025Autism BrainNet is pleased to announce the release of genetic data for 27 new brain samples. The data release brings the total number of brain samples with available … -
June 8, 2025Simons Foundation grants are helping the Ukrainian research community keep going and maintain their work in the face of the ongoing war. More than 430 grantees are receiving … -
June 3, 2025The Abacus Bee, a friendly math competition run by the American Printing House for the Blind, fosters community and confidence for blind and low vision kids. -
June 2, 2025The Simons Foundation’s Life Sciences division is now accepting applications for its Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution awards. The deadline for fellowship applications is July … -
June 2, 2025The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) will be held in July 2026 in Philadelphia. The 2026 congress will carry on a history of international collaboration that stretches back … -
May 29, 2025In these videos, leading neuroscientists share discoveries, memories and lessons from their international collaboration to map the neural processes behind cognition. -
In the NewsIn 2014, mathematician Peter Lax discussed his incredible career and accomplishments as part of the Simons Foundation’s Science Lives series.
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Washington PostPeter Lax, an innovator in applied mathematics who left Hungary during World War II and worked on U.S. atomic bomb calculations as a college student while developing …
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May 20, 2025The short film, Jim Simons: Life and Philanthropy, explores Simons’ life and his impact on math, science, investing and philanthropy. -
May 20, 2025The publication picked up awards for best launch of a media brand, best profile, best single article and the overall top prize. -
Funded WorkDespite recent progress, the development of tailored therapies for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) requires identifying the causal links between genetic, cellular and neural circuit defects that lead to …