Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

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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YouTube video by moorefoundation The Future of Amazonia Reflections: Avecita Chicchón, Moore Foundation

🌳 Avecita Chicchón leads the Moore Foundation’s Andes-Amazon Initiative, which has helped conserve 400 million+ hectares in the Amazon since 2001. In this interview from The Future of Amazonia, Avecita underscores the urgent need for continued support in the Amazon region.

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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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25 years of impact thanks to partners like you!

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

📡 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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Scientists Classify Cells Based on Levitation Height In a remarkable leap forward for cellular biology and biomedical engineering, researchers at Stanford Medicine have unveiled a groundbreaking device that can manipulate cells mid-air with invisible

Moore Inventor Fellow Gozde Durmus is developing label-free tools to analyze millions of cells in real time. Her work contributed to the breakthrough Electro-LEV platform, which offers new possibilities for cell analysis and label-free cell sorting in various biomedical fields.

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How local communities are key to conserving Amazon rainforest In Brazil, the ARPA Comunidades program helps protect the world's largest tropical rainforest

This initiative brings together local communities, government agencies, NGOs, philanthropies, multilaterals and donors around a shared vision: conserving the Amazon while ensuring the long-term vitality of the ecosystems + people who depend on it.

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ARPA Comunidades reinforces the stewardship of those who safeguard the forest by strengthening community orgs, catalyzing socio-bioeconomy enterprises and improving access to electricity and the internet.

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📸: Andre Dib, @wwfbrasil.bsky.social

Avecita Chicchón, Andes-Amazon Initiative program director, signing the Memorandum of Understanding on the launch of ARPA Comunidades (ARPA Communities). Credit: Cristián Samper

At COP30 in Belém, Brazil, a broad coalition of our partners announced ARPA Comunidades (ARPA Communities) — a powerful next step in securing the Amazon’s ecological integrity by aligning nature protection with resilient, sustainable community stewardship.

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We’ve supported the Broad Institute to develop Operation Outbreak, an interactive educational effort to spark interest in science and aid the fight against infectious diseases. We look forward to seeing this work continue to drive innovation in public health education + empower the next generation.

The MacArthur Foundation today announced the winner of this year’s 100&Change award: Sentinel at @broadinstitute.org. Sentinel is an outbreak surveillance framework that prevents pandemics through local community empowerment.

Congrats to the Sentinel team, incl. foundation trustee, Pardis Sabeti!

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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Louie Porta (@louieporta.bsky.social), our Arctic Ocean Initiative program director, penned a piece that is included in the book, focused on how to safeguard the Central Arctic through conservation and cooperation.

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1. Sealskin whaling vessel, Alaska
2. Caribou, Canada
3: Arctic inlets, Canada

📖 Ocean for Life, a book produced by the Human Development Forum, shares insight into the ecological, social, and economic importance of marine conservation and restoration efforts, while also producing practical steps and solutions to protect these critical ecosystems.

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Aquatic Symbiosis Genomics Project An ambitious project to read the genomes of 1,000 freshwater and marine species that represent more than 500 symbiotic relationships, funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the Sanger Ins...

Building on early work with J. Craig Venter Institute (@jcvi.org), our Symbiosis in Aquatic Systems Initiative’s genome sequencing project with @sangerinstitute.bsky.social has proven to be an invaluable approach to accelerating scientific discovery.

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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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The power of convenings is at the heart of the Moore Foundation’s Experimental Physics Investigators Initiative, which brings researchers together to advance experimental physics through collaboration and creativity.

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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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We are pleased to share the launch of the Catalytic Capital for the Agriculture Transition (CCAT) fund — a new investment fund that aims to make restoring degraded land more productive and profitable for Brazilian farmers.

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YouTube video by moorefoundation The Future of Amazonia Reflections: Ana Carolina González, Natural Resource Governance Institute

In this interview from The Future of Amazonia symposium, Ana Carolina González, @nrginstitute.bsky.social’s senior director of global programs, unpacks the deeper implications of the global energy transition and its real and potential impacts in the Amazon.

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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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Thousands recently gathered for the #BayAreaScienceFestival — a free community event for all ages, offering the opportunity to explore, be curious, and connect through science.

Huge thanks to all the grantees and partners who made it possible and to all who share science with the public every day.

🚀 The Civic Science Fellows program is inviting applications for 2026–27 host partners. Fellows help orgs explore strategic questions, strengthen connections between science & society, and build lasting capacity. Hosts receive grants to support a fellow starting Sept. 2026.

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SeqHub SeqHub is a platform for exploring, annotating, and sharing biological sequences.

A new resource for life scientists → 🧬 SeqHub

Built by Tatta Bio with Moore Foundation support, SeqHub is a free platform where researchers can explore, annotate and share sequence data — all in one place. Designed for collaboration and discovery across the life sciences community.

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YouTube video by moorefoundation The Future of Amazonia Reflections: Lilian Painter, Wildlife Conservation Society

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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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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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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YouTube video by moorefoundation The Future of Amazonia Reflections: Tasso Azevedo, MapBiomas, Conexão Povos da Floresta

Tasso Azevedo, a Brazilian scientist and forest expert, is the founder and coordinator of @mapbiomas.bsky.social — a network of experts generating annual land cover and use maps in the Amazon. Watch his interview from The Future of Amazonia for his perspective on conservation efforts in the region ⤵️

Caltech Team Sets Record with 6,100-Qubit Array The neutral-atom platform shows promise for scaling up quantum computers.

Experimental Physics Investigator Manuel Endres and colleagues at @caltech.edu have taken a major step toward scalable quantum computing by creating the largest qubit array ever assembled, consisting of 6,100 neutral-atom qubits trapped in a grid by lasers.

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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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