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October 31, 2023A number of presentations will be given by SFARI Investigators at Neuroscience 2023, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. -
October 31, 2023How Chickenshed NYC are artfully integrating STEAM concepts into their programming. -
October 31, 2023Flatiron Research Fellow Brett Larsen is developing better ways to train deep learning models. -
October 30, 2023Simons Junior Fellow Michael Chapman studies the connections between complexity theory and approximations of algebraic structures. -
October 26, 2023With a new computational model, Flatiron Institute researchers have made big steps in understanding how our brains classify. This advance could improve efficiency in artificial neural networks. -
October 16, 2023Astrophysicist Shy Genel is leveraging machine learning to reveal the most basic properties of the universe. -
October 12, 2023SFARI is pleased to announce that it intends to fund 9 grants in response to the 2023 Winter Pilot Award request for applications. -
October 9, 2023… ask questions that they wouldn’t be able to ask without the models we’re producing.” ChatGPT has well-known limitations when it comes to accuracy (for … -
October 6, 2023… the marine ecosystem and ultimately the climate. Rachel Collin As a marine biologist with expertise in aquatic invertebrates, Rachel Collin focuses on documenting tropical biodiversity and understanding … -
October 5, 2023… galaxy comes from the most massive stars,” Faucher-Giguère says. “Because more-massive stars burn at a higher speed, they are shorter-lived. They rapidly use up … -
October 3, 2023A new initiative to celebrate and support work around the April 8, 2024 total solar eclipse. -
September 28, 2023A team of scientists at the Flatiron Institute and their colleagues have mapped out the entire early visual system — from eyes to neurons — for a tiny parasitic wasp … -
September 26, 2023… Vy Nguyen University of Utah Ana Carolina Odebrecht Vergne de Abreu University of Essex Brenner Philbrook University of Washington Luisa Quispe Brandeis University Aya Sahib University of … -
September 26, 2023Simons Junior Fellow Lynn Yap fuses expertise in neuroscience with chemistry to understand how our brains detect and encode new information. -
September 19, 2023While our logo is going away, our mission to support boundary-pushing science engagement will stay the same. -
September 18, 2023… internal research division devoted to computational science, the Flatiron Institute, also received its own revised logo as part of the refresh, one closely related to the new … -
September 14, 2023The A.G. Huntsman Foundation has selected Mick Follows as the recipient of the 2023 A.G. Huntsman Award. Follows is a professor of oceanography at MIT and … -
September 14, 2023The Breakthrough Prize Foundation has named Simon Brendle the winner of the 2024 Breakthrough Prize in mathematics for his work in the field of differential geometry. Brendle is … -
September 14, 2023On September 14, the Breakthrough Prize Foundation named Oliver Philcox as one of the winners of the 2024 New Horizons Prize in Physics. The honor recognizes early-career … -
September 14, 2023The National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology will bring together mathematical and biological scientists to make new advances in challenging and potentially high-reward research areas. -
September 12, 2023… corticocerebellar perturbations Daniel Pederick, Ph.D. Stanford University SFARI BTI Fellow Project: Investigating tonotopy in autism Greta Pintacuda, D.Phil. Broad Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology SFARI … -
September 7, 2023This edition of our Science Sandbox Spotlight series features Tracy Drinkwater, president and founder of the Seattle Universal Math Museum -
September 5, 2023At the Flatiron Institute, computational quantum physicist Bo Xiao is working to understand the importance of materials’ fundamental properties by solving simplified mathematical models on an infinite grid. -
August 30, 2023Simons Junior Fellow Oliver Philcox uses detective skills — and math — to shed light on the interactions between physics and matter at the birth of the universe. -
August 28, 2023Center for Computational Quantum Physics associate research scientists Jennifer Cano and Cyrus Dreyer navigated their careers as a couple, each focusing on a different — though increasingly connected — field. -
August 21, 2023The Simons Foundation is pleased to announce the establishment of the Simons Collaboration on Perfection in Algebra, Geometry and Topology, directed by Martin Olsson of the University of … -
August 21, 2023… mechanics, to interface with the microphysical view. In this way, it is hoped to choose between several competing models and to interface with a parallel investigation involving … -
August 21, 2023… unrealistic, it could usefully guide the bottom-up construction of a hologram for the natural world. Fortuitously, there has been a recent explosion of complementary advances in … -
August 17, 2023A new study led by the Flatiron Institute’s Aavishkar Patel has identified a mechanism that explains the unusual behavior of strange metals, considered one of the greatest … -
August 17, 2023… University of Missouri in Columbia. Her research focuses on analysis and partial differential equations, particularly on the localization of waves. The Blavatnik Family Foundation and the New … -
August 15, 2023Phenotypic data from 328,973 participants enrolled in SPARK, including 132,138 individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), are now available to approved researchers. Genomic data are also … -
August 15, 2023How a Los Angeles-based organization is empowering youth to use STEAM concepts to be leaders in their communities. -
August 7, 2023Flatiron data scientist Billy Broderick is on a mission to make neuroscience research easier and more efficient by developing user-friendly software for analyzing and modeling data. -
July 31, 2023The Simons Foundation is pleased to announce that Brett Dakin has joined the foundation as senior vice president and general counsel. As the foundation’s first chief legal … -
July 31, 2023By combining expertise in neuroscience and engineering, Simons Junior Fellow Cynthia Steinhardt is uncovering general principles about how electricity drives the brain. -
July 27, 2023Astrophysicists at the Flatiron Institute and their colleagues have created the first computer simulations showing how convection in the cores of massive stars generates waves that result in …
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July 26, 2023… joined NYU as a research professor of physics. The Blavatnik Family Foundation and the New York Academy of Sciences will celebrate Ho alongside the other finalists and … -
July 12, 2023In searching for a better way to make and process new materials, Julia Hsu is tackling the new-to-her field of machine learning as a part of … -
July 6, 2023Bhargav Bhatt, a mathematician at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University and the University of Michigan, discusses his work in algebraic geometry, commutative algebra and cohomology. -
July 5, 2023The Esther A. & Joseph Klingenstein Fund has announced that neuroscientist SueYeon Chung is one of this year’s recipients of a prestigious Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Award in Neuroscience. -
July 5, 2023With custom-built web platforms and data visualizations, software engineer Aaron Watters helps scientists gain insightful perspectives on their data. -
June 28, 2023After 15 years of carefully observing stars called pulsars throughout our galaxy, the NANOGrav collaboration has “heard” the perpetual chorus of gravitational waves rippling through our universe. Much … -
June 28, 2023Simons Junior Fellow Sophie Huiberts explores why algorithms that seem destined to fail succeed instead. Understanding this paradox could help computing become even more efficient. -
June 26, 2023A SFARI initiated and funded reanalysis of previous studies reveals consistent biological signals in the human microbiome and other physiological signals associated with autism and highlights the need … -
June 24, 2023Each month, SCPAB scans the bioRxiv and arXiv for interesting papers from the SCPAB community and beyond. -
June 21, 2023Flatiron Institute Research Fellow Brato Chakrabarti studies how tiny objects in our bodies work collectively to make big waves. -
June 12, 2023Flatiron Institute Research Fellow Charles Margossian is bringing the power of statistics to the people, empowering them to know when they’re on the right track to discovery. -
June 10, 2023Each month, SCGB scans the bioRxiv and arXiv for interesting papers from the SCGB community and beyond.