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A new measurement of the mass of an elementary particle, the W boson, has defied expectations. The result hints at a possible flaw in physicists’ otherwise stalwart theory of the fundamental bits and bobs of our world, known as the standard model.

For vaccine dosing decisions, past experience and best guesses won the day in the mad rush to beat back the pandemic. Modeling tools might have made a difference.

Dennis P. Sullivan of Stony Brook University and the City University Graduate Center won the award for "his groundbreaking contributions to topology in its broadest sense, and in particular its algebraic, geometric and dynamical aspects."

In new research led by scientists at the Flatiron Institute's Center for Computational Astrophysics, William Blake’s phrase “to see a world in a grain of sand” is suddenly relevant to astrophysics.

More than 50 years after the seeds of a vast collection of mathematical ideas called the Langlands program began to sprout, surprising new findings are emerging.

New mathematical formulation means a huge paradigm shift in physics would not be necessary.

Julianne Dalcanton, director of the Flatiron Institute's Center for Computational Astrophysics, describes a vivid cosmic image of the aftermath of a galactic collision captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Physicists at the Flatiron's Center for Computational Quantum Physics and the French National Center for Scientific Research have finally solved the long-standing mystery of why water moves faster through narrower nanotubes.

Simons Collaboration on Hidden Symmetries and Fusion Energy physicists Matt Landreman and Elizabeth Paul have achieved a remarkable breakthrough in the conceptual design of stellarators.

Predictions by researchers at the Flatiron Institute's Center for Computational Astrophysics indicate that it should be possible to directly identify how turbulence heats a given black hole’s plasma from the spectrum of that plasma’s radiation.