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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 … -
Funded WorkThe prefrontal cortex (PFC) is critical for a myriad of higher-order brain functions, including working memory, planning, decision-making, language and creative intelligence.
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Funded WorkIn this project, Gabriela Rosenblau and colleagues aim to systematically investigate and constrain the heterogeneity of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) by providing a fine-grained mechanistic characterization of …
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Funded WorkFMRP is a multifunctional protein essential for normal brain development and neuronal plasticity.
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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. -
June 1, 2023On January 30–31, SFARI convened its first annual meeting of the SFARI Sex Differences Collaboration (SSDC). Funded in 2021, the SSDC collaboration consists of five groups of … -
June 1, 2023Earlier this year we announced here that this summer we would be issuing a request for applications (RFA) for the Genomics of ASD grants. However, as we have … -
June 1, 2023The Simons Foundation’s contribution is the largest unrestricted endowment gift to a higher education institution in American history. -
May 30, 2023Simons Junior Fellow Eric Arsenault works at the intersection of physics and chemistry to understand how electrons and nuclei conspire — work that may lead to future energy and … -
May 23, 2023Flatiron Institute astrophysicist Adrian Price-Whelan studies the chaotic motions of stars in the Milky Way. His mission? To search for one of the universe’s best-kept … -
May 20, 2023Each month, SCPAB scans the bioRxiv and arXiv for interesting papers from the SCPAB community and beyond. -
May 16, 2023Each month, SCGB scans the bioRxiv and arXiv for interesting papers from the SCGB community and beyond. -
May 15, 2023More than 50 Science Sandbox grantees convened at the Simons Foundation for the two-day event. -
May 12, 2023… footprint, with a focus on areas of the country that have fewer traditional science engagement opportunities than cities like Boston or San Francisco. Our first initiative centers … -
May 10, 2023… as mentors and role models. Cabrera was a Scholar in a similar program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, called the Meyerhoff Scholars Program. That program … -
May 9, 2023The Simons Foundation has named seven scientists as 2023 Simons Investigators in Aquatic Microbial Ecology. The five-year awards are intended to support outstanding recently tenured investigators in … -
May 9, 2023Flatiron Institute Research Fellow Fruzsina Agocs develops mathematical tools to help scientists understand oscillating systems — from the earliest moments of our universe to how sound bounces off complicated … -
May 5, 2023… collaboration and mentorship of early-career researchers will live on in SURFiN, Picchini Schaffer says. -
May 1, 2023… made profound discoveries in superconductivity, statistical physics and nonlinear dynamics. The celebrated Hohenberg-Kohn theorem is foundational to CCQ’s work. The 2023 Pierre Hohenberg Fellow will … -
April 28, 2023… Sciences and was a Visiting Professor at the Ecole Normale Superieure, Simons Professor KITP Santa Barbara , and Distinguished Visiting Professor the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He … -
April 28, 2023In using AI-powered tools to map proteins in the human gut microbiome, researchers have challenged the traditional view of the relationship between protein sequence, structure and function. -
April 27, 2023The Simons Foundation is pleased to announce the 2023 class of Junior Fellows in the Simons Society of Fellows. The 10 researchers are outstanding early-career scientists and … -
April 26, 2023At the Flatiron Institute, Tim Oleskiw combines experimental and computational methods to figure out how our visual systems work. He hopes his work can help spur advances in … -
April 25, 2023On February 10, 2023, SFARI hosted an in-person meeting focused on measuring sensory system function in humans with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD). -
April 24, 2023… the social and practical challenges created by climate change — including research that becomes commercially viable and ideas that lead to immediate action on the local and global … -
April 21, 2023Physicists have demonstrated a special type of reflection that could enable new forms of wireless communications and power-saving computers. -
April 20, 2023Behavioral neuroscientist and Simons Junior Fellow Andre B. Toussaint explores how pain sensitivity can exacerbate the risk of opioid addiction. -
April 12, 2023Each month, SCPAB scans the bioRxiv and arXiv for interesting papers from the SCPAB community and beyond. -
April 11, 2023A new analysis of measurements of the universe’s oldest light made by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope shows how ordinary and dark matter is spread across the cosmos … -
Funded WorkThe Simons Society of Fellows is a community of scholars that encourages intellectual interactions across disciplines and across research centers in the New York City area. -
April 3, 2023In her studies of insects, Flatiron Institute Research Fellow Tatyana Gavrilchenko is gaining new insights into the complexities of the vasculature system — work that could inform efforts at … -
March 31, 2023… at Syracuse University in 2000, and was promoted to Professor, holding the Alumni Chair, in 2007, before moving to Penn in 2009. He has held visiting positions … -
March 31, 2023Each month, SCPAB scans the bioRxiv and arXiv for interesting papers from the SCPAB community and beyond. -
March 28, 2023Each month, SCGB scans the bioRxiv and arXiv for interesting papers from the SCGB community and beyond. -
March 28, 2023Krishna Shenoy set out to develop workable prosthetics for profoundly paralyzed people. Along the way, he helped usher in a novel framework for deciphering neural activity. -
March 27, 2023Simons Junior Fellow Morris Ang develops and proves theorems that help explain the hidden mathematical patterns in random surfaces or objects. -
March 23, 2023In a mouse model of fragile X syndrome, Emily Osterweil and her colleagues show that excessive protein synthesis drives a pathological compensatory rise in protein degradation (by the …