We've partnered with @kavlifoundation.org to support two instrumentation projects, including MOHSIS, a Moore-funded instrument that will let a ground-based telescope capture near-infrared light Earth's atmosphere normally blocks. See how: www.moore.org/article-deta...

Bringing new eyes to existing telescopes

Two university-led projects will receive a combined $2.96 million to advance astrophysics by developing innovative instruments for midsized ground-based optical…

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Starting today, beachgoers can enjoy expanded access at San Gregorio State Beach following the recent acquisition by @postlandtrust.bsky.social of San Gregorio Ranch. The Moore Foundation partnered with POST to expand open access to this California State Park. www.parks.ca.gov/NewsRelease/...

California State Parks and Peninsula Open Space Trust Announce Permanent Conservation of San Gregorio Ranch and Planned Expansion of State Beach by 50%

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The Arctic Ocean shapes life in Greenland. A new film from BBC StoryWorks highlights Inuit-led stewardship through the work of our grantee, Oceans North. Learn more: www.moore.org/article-deta... #EnvironmentalConservation #OceanConservation

New film explores Inuit-led stewardship of the Arctic Ocean

The Arctic Ocean shapes every aspect of life in Greenland. It feeds families, supports livelihoods, and connects generations through a deep relationship with th…

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Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems Initiative grantee Staša Milojević is studying how innovation takes shape in quantum materials research. “Rather than just looking backward at settled history, we are capturing how radical innovation happens as it unfolds.” news.iu.edu/luddy/live/n...

How do quantum breakthroughs happen? Luddy professor on $1.1 million mission to find out

Luddy School Informatics Professor Staša Milojević seeks to push scientific boundaries with her prestigious Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation grant as p...

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For hundreds of millions of years, Earth’s earliest complex life may have thrived on oxygen-rich seafloors. New research challenges long-held assumptions about the origins of eukaryotes: scienmag.com/early-comple...

Congratulations to Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems Initiative Investigators Eva Andrei and Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, who are sharing the 2026 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience with Allan MacDonald for foundational work that established the field of Twistronics. 🔗 www.moore.org/initiative-s...

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Coral reefs depend on a symbiotic partnership between corals and microscopic algae. New research shows heat stress can disrupt oxygen regulation at the coral surface, increasing the risk of bleaching and mortality. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Acute temperature effects on cilia beating increase coral deoxygenation

Ciliary flows buffer coral O2 supply under heat stress until a tipping point, above which hypoxia and tissue failure are induced.

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New funding opportunity from the Symbiosis in Aquatic Systems Initiative. We’re inviting teams of two researchers to pursue ambitious, high-risk projects advancing aquatic symbiosis (marine + freshwater).  Details + how to apply:  moore.org/SymbiosisRFP

New funding opportunity: Advancing aquatic symbiosis research

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation announces a new request for proposals aimed at advancing understanding of symbiosis in marine and freshwater environments.…

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“One of the biggest obstacles in quantum computing is finding a material environment that is quiet enough for qubits to survive,” says Experimental Physics Investigator Wei Guo. New research suggests frozen neon may help. Explore the research: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Solid neon as a noise-resilient host for electron qubits above 100 mK - Nature Electronics

Solid neon can serve as a host for electron qubits that is resilient against charge and thermal noise, and exhibits a charge noise that is comparable to that of common semiconductor systems, as shown ...

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New funding opportunity from the Symbiosis in Aquatic Systems Initiative. We’re inviting teams of two researchers to pursue ambitious, high-risk projects advancing aquatic symbiosis (marine + freshwater). Open globally. Details + how to apply:  moore.org/SymbiosisRFP #RFP #AquaticSymbiosis

A material long thought to be magnetic—iron telluride—can conduct electricity with no resistance when disorder is removed. Researchers supported by the Moore Foundation show how this hidden state can also be tuned. Explore the research: www.psu.edu/news/eberly-...

Superconductivity switched on in material once thought only magnetic | Penn State University

New research has now revealed that iron telluride, a compound composed of the chemical elements iron and tellurium and long thought to be an ordinary magnetic metal, is in fact a superconductor.

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Moore Inventor Fellow Maiken Mikkelsen (Duke University) has helped develop an ultrathin photodetector that traps light with nanoscale silver structures and operates far faster than typical thermal detectors. advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Metasurface‐Enhanced Thermal Photodetector Operating at Gigahertz Frequencies

Ultrafast response speeds from a pyroelectric photodetector are achieved by coupling a plasmonic nanogap cavity metasurface to an aluminum-nitride pyroelectric layer. The metasurface converts light i...

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SCIENCE FUNDING: We're inviting researchers who create and engineer new quantum and hybrid materials to apply for fully unconstrained, 6-year research grants supporting ambitious, high-risk work at the frontiers of quantum materials science. ➡️ www.moore.org/initiative-a... #ScienceGrants

🚨🚨🚨 Six universities will receive $250K each through the Modernizing Academic Appointment & Advancement (MA3) Challenge to pilot bold reforms in faculty hiring, evaluation, promotion, and tenure systems. Today @orca-open.bsky.social is excited to announce the inaugural MA3 awardees. [1/5]

Moore Inventor Fellow Maiken Mikkelsen at Duke University developed an ultrathin thermal photodetector that traps light using nanoscale silver structures — it detects light across the spectrum and operates far faster than typical thermal detectors. advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Many organizations are beginning to consider what future investment in green chemistry could look like. While adoption remains uneven, survey findings show that 75% of leaders across R&D and technology support increased investment in green chemistry research and innovation. na2.hubs.ly/H04kFZQ0

What happens when researchers from different disciplines get in the same room? Our program associate, Rebecca Ju, shares reflections from a recent Moore Foundation convening and how these gatherings can help turn individual discoveries into shared scientific momentum. www.moore.org/article-deta...

SCIENCE FUNDING: We're inviting researchers who create and engineer new quantum and hybrid materials to apply for fully unconstrained, 6-year research grants supporting ambitious, high-risk work at the frontiers of quantum materials science. ➡️ www.moore.org/initiative-a... #ScienceGrants

Satellite analysis shows gold mining in Ecuador’s Morona Santiago province doubled between 2020–2024 and continued expanding through 2025. MAAP’s monitoring helps track deforestation and mining activity across the Amazon. www.maapprogram.org/mining-ecuad...

MAAP #238: Gold Mining in the Ecuadorian Amazon, Southern Sector – Morona Santiago Province - MAAP

This is the third in a series of reports documenting the expansion of gold mining in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Previous reports (MAAP #227 and MAAP #230) analyzed the progress of this activity in the nor...

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New research from Moore Inventor Fellow Grace Han (UC Santa Barbara) shows how a bio-inspired molecule can capture sunlight, store it in chemical bonds and release it later as heat — advancing molecular solar thermal energy storage. science.ucsb.edu/news/bottlin...

Season 11 of The Climate Conversation podcast is officially underway! EESI sat down with Genny Biggs, who oversees the Wildfire Resilience Initiative at @moorefound.bsky.social. Sound on 📢 to hear her explain the importance of ecologically beneficial fire. 🎧 Full episode: ow.ly/3lma50YlUle

Sustaining innovation requires steady investment in people, ideas and institutions. Our latest newsletter highlights opportunities in green chemistry and quantum materials research, the value of interdisciplinary inquiry & efforts to maintain the scientific talent pipeline. mailchi.mp/moore/feb2026

Now open: Materials Synthesis Investigators and Fellows call from the Moore Foundation’s Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems Initiative. 6 year, fully unconstrained grants support researchers creating new quantum and hybrid materials. Apply now. #MoorePhysics epiqs.smapply.io/prog/2026_sy...

Funded through our Science Program, this technique expands the scientific toolkit in ways that can reshape what researchers are able to ask and answer. New research – #ExpansionMicroscopy enlarges cells up to 60x by embedding them in a water-absorbing gel www.quantamagazine.org/expansion-mi...

Expansion Microscopy Has Transformed How We See the Cellular World | Quanta Magazine

How physically magnifying objects using a key ingredient in diapers has opened an unprecedented view of the microbial world.

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Durable conservation moves more like the tortoise than the hare. Andes-Amazon Initiative program officer Maria DiGiano rethinks innovation in conservation. Not as speed alone but as the patient work of building governance, trust and lasting stewardship over generations www.moore.org/article-deta...

Long before water reaches the faucet, it is shaped by the environment. Marion Wittmann, Wildfire Resilience Initiative program officer in collaboration with Walton Family Foundation, share thoughts about water and how it ties people to the natural world #Philanthropy www.moore.org/article-deta...

We will launch 3 investigator calls in 2026 to support materials synthesis, experimental, and theory researchers through the Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems Initiative. 6 year, fully unconstrained grants will support bold, high-risk ideas in quantum materials. #MoorePhysics

Science is driven by the people who conduct research. To sustain the scientific enterprise, we invested $55 million to support postdoctoral fellowships across 30 universities. 🔬🌟 moore.org/article-detail?newsUrlName=strengthening-the-u.s.-scientific-talent-pipeline-through-postdoctoral-fellowships

A new terahertz microscope let physicists observe terahertz “jiggles” in a superconducting fluid inside bismuth strontium calcium copper oxide. Nature paper from Moore Foundation grantee Nuh Gedik opens new paths for understanding emergent quantum matter. #MoorePhysics news.mit.edu/2026/teraher...

Terahertz microscope reveals the motion of superconducting electrons

Scientists developed a terahertz microscope that compresses terahertz light down to microscopic dimensions. This pinpoint of terahertz light can resolve quantum details in materials that were previous...

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New study co-authored by Symbiosis in Aquatic Systems Initiative Investigator Dr. Patrick Keeling used single-cell gene expression analysis to broadly sample uncultured Cercozoa (part of the supergroup Rhizaria)... 1/2 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #aquaticsymbiosis #evolution #discoveryscience

Phylogenomic tree of Cercozoa based on single-cell transcriptomes from 100 uncultured cells - BMC Biology

Background Cercozoa are single-celled eukaryotes (protists) and are part of the supergroup Rhizaria. Cercozoans have vastly different morphologies and are defined by their phylogenetic affinity. While...

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