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🌿 The Integrated Legacy of the Amazonian Region (LIRA) project aims to secure long-term conservation gains in the Brazilian Amazon while ensuring its communities and ecosystems can thrive together.

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December 31, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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⚛️ With Moore Foundation support, M. Zahid Hasan and his team identified materials that host the elusive Weyl fermions — massless, free-flowing quasiparticles — a breakthrough that helped launch a new direction in quantum materials research.

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December 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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🌿 Moore Foundation grantees are driving transformative conservation across the Amazon through innovative Project Finance for Permanence initiatives in Colombia, Peru and Brazil. These efforts are securing the future of the Amazon rainforest.

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December 23, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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In 2002, we invested $9.1 million in grant funding to establish the Laboratory for Adaptive Optics at @ucsantacruz.bsky.social — an investment that helped strengthen UCSC’s position as a national center for advancing astronomy research.

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December 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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🛰️ In 2013, with our support, Greg Asner and his team at the Global Airborne Observatory launched CLASlite Classroom, a collection of free and open-to-the-public advanced forest monitoring tools — enabling people to monitor forests globally. 🌳

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December 16, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Teams from Cal Academy, Chabot, the Exploratorium, The Tech Interactive & the Lawrence Hall of Science joined the conversation to discuss shared challenges and future opportunities. #Moore25 #BayArea #InformalScience

We’re grateful for their insights.
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As part of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s 25th anniversary symposium series, staff from across the Bay Area's five largest science museums — Californi…
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December 12, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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The Moore Foundation has long supported these institutions as part of our commitment to expanding science-rich learning across the Bay Area. Their role in sparking curiosity for all ages remains essential. #Moore25 #OutOfSchoolLearning #BayArea #ScienceEngagement www.moore.org/article-deta...
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As part of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s 25th anniversary symposium series, staff from across the Bay Area's five largest science museums — Californi…
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December 12, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Museums Reimagined, part of our 25th Anniversary Symposia series, brought together Bay Area science museums to explore how they can continue engaging communities in a rapidly changing world. #Moore25 #ScienceLearning www.moore.org/article-deta...
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As part of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s 25th anniversary symposium series, staff from across the Bay Area's five largest science museums — Californi…
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December 12, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Our Data-Driven Discovery Initiative advanced transparent, reproducible research — uniting academic institutions, funders and scientific associations — and filled a critical gap through investment in quality, user-friendly tools that enable reliable, accessible science.

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Lessons from our work in data-driven science
The Data-Driven Discovery Initiative was initially approved in 2012 by the Moore Foundation’s board of trustees to explore ways of accelerating research that us…
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December 5, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Identidad Madidi — a Moore Foundation-supported series of expeditions in Bolivia’s Madidi National Park — investigated 14 habitats spanning 6K meters from the Andes to the Amazon in one of Earth’s most biodiverse protected areas.

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December 2, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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We’re grateful for the partners and grantees whose dedication and insight make meaningful progress possible. Thank you for all you do. We look forward to what we can continue to accomplish together. #Moore25
25 years of impact thanks to partners like you!
November 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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📡 The Moore Foundation enabled the global Event Horizon Telescope by supporting development of ultrafast data acquisition electronics that made it possible to link telescopes around the world to create an Earth-sized virtual observatory capable of imaging #BlackHoles.

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Early funding transformed a scientific dream into reality
On Wednesday, April 10, 2019, black holes were transformed from an abstraction to reality when the Event Horizon Telescope presented the first-ever image of a b…
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November 25, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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What if the powerful particle accelerators of big physics labs could fit on a silicon chip? That’s precisely the vision behind the Accelerator on a Chip (ACHIP) — a Moore Foundation-funded, international, long-horizon effort to create a dielectric laser accelerator.

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Particle accelerators for the microchip era
Swinging for the fencesThe term “particle accelerator” might lead most people to envision long underground tunnels stretching tens of kilometers and rooms full…
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November 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Since 2004, we’ve invested in 20+ open-access projects to advance cutting-edge DNA sequencing technologies that are unlocking nature’s ecological mysteries and improving our understanding of the evolution of life.

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November 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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💧 With Moore Foundation support, Stanford U. researchers pioneered a method for imaging California’s groundwater based on surface, airborne and satellite measurements — prompting the state to invest more than $10M in mapping aquifers throughout the Central Valley.

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November 11, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, a Moore Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems Initiative investigator at @mit.edu, revealed that twisted bilayer graphene could become superconducting — a discovery that sparked an entirely new field of research: twistronics.

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Enabling collaboration for rapid discovery
The Moore Foundation’s Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems Initiative supports exploratory research to increase our understanding of how complex quantum matte…
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November 5, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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In this interview from The Future of Amazonia symposium, Lilian Painter, Bolivia program director at @wcs.org, highlights the crucial role Indigenous communities play in advancing conservation efforts across the Amazon.

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The Future of Amazonia Reflections: Lilian Painter, Wildlife Conservation Society
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October 30, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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For 20+ years, we’ve supported conservation in the Great Bear bioregion of British Columbia. The Great Bear Rainforest Agreement, finalized in 2016, and the Great Bear Sea Project Finance for Permanence, established in June 2024, now stand as global models of Indigenous-led conservation.

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Protecting the Great Bear Sea: Indigenous leadership for healthy ecosystems and communities
Since our initial investigation of ocean opportunities in 2004, the Marine Conservation Initiative has aimed to support healthy and resilient ocean ecosystems t…
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October 29, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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For our second 25th anniversary symposium, we partnered with the American Society for Microbiology to spotlight a new report on “Early Microbial Life,” released at #ASMicrobe, reinforcing the value of community building and connecting researchers globally.

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Early Microbial Life: How investigating the origin and evolution of life opens new pathways to scientific inquiry
This year marks the Moore Foundation’s 25th anniversary. To commemorate this milestone, we launched a symposia series exploring topics related to the foundati…
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October 24, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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What if every wildfire on Earth could be detected in real time? 🔥

🛰️ That’s the goal of FireSat, a constellation of multispectral infrared imaging satellites led by Earth Fire Alliance + Muon Space. FireSat launched its first satellite in March 2025 and plans to deploy another 50+ by 2030.

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October 21, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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📳 Informed by decades of data on rapid earthquake detection, scientists at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social, @caltech.edu, U. of Washington and the USGS developed algorithms to trigger automatic safety shutdowns and pioneered the use of GPS with seismic data for accurate earthquake alerts.

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Earthquake early warning system becomes West Coast-wide
The ShakeAlert earthquake early warning program has hit a milestone by becoming a West Coast-wide system. Moore Foundation grantees at the U.S. Geological Surve…
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October 16, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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⚖️ In this insightful interview from The Future of Amazonia symposium, César Ipenza, an environmental lawyer and university professor, stresses the urgent need to strengthen environmental governance to ensure the long-term viability of the Amazon.

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The Future of Amazonia Reflections: César Ipenza
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October 9, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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🪾 Sudden oak death has killed hundreds of thousands of oaks and tanoaks along the Pacific Coast.

🌱 With Moore Foundation support, @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social researchers traced the pathogen to a single European source — informing conservation efforts + commercial trade.

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Sudden oak death introduced to U.S., study finds
A genetic analysis of 151 isolates of the Sudden Oak Death pathogen provides new evidence that the commercial plant trade possibly helped introduce the microbe …
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October 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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🌿 In 2003, we invested $11M to acquire and support initial stewardship planning of the Cargill Salt Ponds into vibrant wetlands — protecting wildlife habitat and increasing public access to green spaces in the California’s South Bay.

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Government officials announce transfer of ownership of Cargill Salt-Ponds to the public
Governor Gray Davis, Senator Dianne Feinstein and Interior Secretary Gale Norton today announced that title to 16,500 acres of salt-ponds and salt making rights…
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October 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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🌊 Through multiple grants — spanning science, ocean monitoring and artificial intelligence — we’re supporting the development of environmental sample processors, automated underwater vehicles, and deep-water imaging tools that push the boundaries of #OceanExploration and engineering. 🛰️
 
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September 29, 2025 at 8:04 PM