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With the support of the Simons Foundation, the CUNY Graduate Center is introducing a comprehensive and fully funded Astrophysics master’s program that alleviates the financial and educational impediments that hold back many aspiring scientists.

The basic concept of quantum spin provides an understanding of a vast range of physical phenomena.

Researchers at the Flatiron Institute's Center for Computational Quantum Physics have come up with a new explanation for why water flows faster through a wider pipe than a narrower one. If validated, it could allow material designers to fine-tune flows through tiny channels, which could be useful in processes such as water purification.

The mathematicians who toiled on the famous enigma also devised powerful forms of end-to-end encryption.

There’s still a long road ahead for the observatory before it can start taking the dazzling pictures of the cosmos that scientists have been eagerly awaiting.

Two independent studies demonstrate that a formulation of quantum mechanics involving complex rather than real numbers is necessary to reproduce experimental results.

In computer simulations of possible universes, researchers at the Flatiron Institute have discovered that a neural network can infer the amount of matter in a whole universe by studying just one of its galaxies.

CCA Visiting Scholar Samuel Grunblatt discusses new images taken from NASA's TESS mission showing three Jupiter-sized planets slated for destruction by their own stars.

Simons Foundation President and astrophysicist David Spergel discusses the benefits of stepping outside your comfort zone.

The quantum revolution upended our understanding of nature, and a lot of uncertainty remains