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The 93 undergraduate students will receive invaluable, hands-on research experience in nearby Simons Foundation-supported neuroscience labs.

Dream of Birds, a short film from The Guardian, Sandbox Films and the Simons Foundation, explores how Argentina’s chingolo birds rediscovered a forgotten tune.

The program supports talented early-career scientists as they transition to tenure-track faculty positions. Submit your application by January 13, 2027.

The Simons Foundation’s Life Sciences division is now accepting applications for its Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology. The application deadline is December 3, 2026, at 12 …

Deisseroth wins the award, along with Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel, for discoveries leading to the development of optogenetics — a technique that uses light to control cellular signals.

Applications are now open for two grant programs that will support faculty and new centers of excellence at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), continuing their legacy of …

The Simons Foundation welcomes astrophysicist Lars Bildsten to its board of trustees. As a board member, he will provide strategic vision, oversight and stewardship to support the foundation …

… the Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain (SCGB), which explores how brain circuitry gives rise to perception and action. Landi’s award will help her transition to …

The events selected for funding include a training program for African autism researchers, a computational neuroscience forum and a conference supporting open-science tools in neurophysiology.

A collaboration between experimentalists and theorists, including quantum physicists at the Simons Foundation’s Flatiron Institute, has developed a new way to study how electrons interact with defects …

Sound + Science, a free after-school program in New York City, helps students explore the deep connections between science, technology and music.

“Transformation” will explain the latest results, put them in context and track how mathematicians are grappling with AI’s impact on their field.

Junior Fellow Elise LePage of the Simons Society of Fellows turns intuition from theoretical physics into new mathematics.

This year’s Open Interval program will fund trios collaborating on projects exploring the theme of turbulence.

… genotype-phenotype studies.” The data are available to approved researchers via SFARI Base. Please contact [email protected] with any questions.

Autism BrainNet (ABN) announces the release of genetic data from the laboratories of Tomasz Nowakowski and Stephan Sanders. This release includes omics data from studies of postmortem brain …

… PIs on a proposal can be employed by institutions outside the Empire AI consortium through a subcontract. Subcontract institutions may be from U.S. and non-U …

… distinction lets researchers separate genetics from environment. A sibling with more of the genetic variants linked to a trait, such as shyness, tended to score higher on …

Using targeted light stimulation, scientists successfully recalibrated damaged brain circuits to restore movement and motor learning in mice.

… understanding between autistic and nonautistic people. The difficulty that each group has in reading the other runs deeper than a simple skills gap. Much of it stems …

The Simons Foundation’s Pivot Fellowship program held its annual meeting on April 8, 2026.

The new collaboration will explore randomness and correlations in number theory, tackling problems related to the Riemann zeta function, prime numbers and other major questions in the field.

The Muon optimizer, a community effort including scientists at the Simons Foundation’s Flatiron Institute, is poised to be the new standard in AI training efficiency.

At the 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians, mathematician Terry Tao discussed the future of AI in mathematics and why the field needs to start asking philosophical questions about …

Jaume Gomis of the Perimeter Institute will lead the collaboration’s work exploring nonlocal observables in theoretical physics.

Flatiron Research Fellow Nour Al Hassanieh develops accurate and efficient algorithms for solving wave equation problems, an endeavor with many potential applications.

The data include PacBio long-read whole genome sequencing data for 110 individuals from 37 families participating in the SPARK autism research study.

… California, Santa Barbara Chenxi Wu University of Wisconsin–Madison Jiahong Wu University of Notre Dame Hang Xue University of Arizona Amanda Young University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign …

Established in memory of Simons Foundation co-founder Jim Simons, these fellowships support research from exceptional graduate students in mathematics.

Each group will receive three years of funding to support research into fundamental questions.

Experts across science, industry, policymaking and philanthropy gathered for the 2026 Simons Science Summit to discuss how artificial intelligence is accelerating scientific discovery, reshaping research and raising new …

… competition for space. This same separation also makes it possible to study brain activity during cooperation without that physical complication. It offers researchers a more direct way …

Mathematician Yair Minsky will direct the collaboration’s work studying the mathematical structures, which are invaluable to modern physics.

Simons Searchlight, a program of the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI), announces the release of new de-identified participant data available to qualified researchers. This release includes …

After seven years, the researchers behind the Simons Collaboration on Ultra-Quantum Matter reflect on their progress in understanding systems that display quantum properties at large scales.

These workshops seek to support research that applies emerging genomic technologies and artificial intelligence approaches to develop a more comprehensive understanding of autism’s genetic architecture.

The Simons Foundation is pleased to announce the 2026 class of its Fellows-to-Faculty program. The program supports talented early-career scientists and their research visions as …

… researchers while fostering a broader and more inclusive community of contributors. David Wells Enabling Simulations of Realistic Cardiac Dynamics and Biomedical Devices by Enhancing Existing Scientific Software …

The award, nicknamed the Nobel Prize of mathematics, recognizes outstanding achievement — and the promise of future achievement — by mathematicians under 40.

… itself in a closed loop without crossing over itself has four points that form the corners of a square. “I don’t know how to solve it …

Simons Foundation President David Spergel writes about the importance of mathematics, the changing AI landscape and why the next decade of science will look radically different from the …

… new future for mathematics. Kontorovich compares Lean to the typesetting program LaTeX, which was unpopular when it was developed in 1978 but is now standard throughout mathematics …

More than a century after David Hilbert presented a list of 23 mathematical challenges to the 1900 International Congress of Mathematicians, mathematicians have made significant progress, but there …

At the 1900 International Congress of Mathematicians, David Hilbert laid out problems that would become famous benchmarks of progress in the field. Now, at the 2026 ICM, they …

Biologists at the Simons Foundation’s Flatiron Institute and their colleagues strive to better understand remarkable living systems by bringing biology and mathematics into closer dialogue.

The fellows join a cross-disciplinary environment that encourages experimentation and innovation among researchers based in New York City.

For years, neuroscientists have sought to reconcile conflicting findings about how brain activity relates to blood flow. A new study suggests that the answer lies in a hidden …

The 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians welcomes the public to enjoy free talks, performances, films, hands-on activities and more that showcase how mathematics shapes art, music, science …