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Emily Buder

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Video of Anne Carpenter of the Broad Institute.
Interviews

Biology Meets Computer Science

By Emily Buder
November 2, 2021

The computational biologist Anne Carpenter creates software that brings the power of machine learning to researchers seeking answers in mountains of cell images.

Interviews

This Astronomer Is Determined to Find Another Earth

By Emily Buder
October 13, 2021

After the ultra-powerful James Webb Space Telescope launches later this year, Laura Kreidberg will lead two efforts to check the weather on rocky planets orbiting other stars.

Exited video interview with neuroscientist Anil Seth of the University of Sussex.
Interviews

The Scientific Problem of Consciousness

By Emily Buder
September 30, 2021

The neuroscientist Anil Seth of the University of Sussex discusses the principles, philosophy and experimentation that have brought scientists closer to understanding the phenomenon of consciousness.

Interviews

How Scientists Finally Finished the Human Genome

By Emily Buder
September 8, 2021

In 2003, the Human Genome Project announced that it had successfully sequenced the entire human genome. That wasn’t quite true. Nearly 10% of human DNA was still missing from the map. Karen Miga, a geneticist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, co-founded an effort to sequence the missing DNA.

Interviews

The Missing Link in Artificial Intelligence

By Emily Buder
August 4, 2021

Melanie Mitchell has worked on digital minds for decades. She says they’ll never truly be like ours until they can make analogies.

Explainers

The Standard Model: The Most Successful Scientific Theory Ever

By Emily Buder
July 16, 2021

The Standard Model is the most successful scientific theory of all time. In this explainer, Cambridge physicist David Tong creates the model, piece by piece, to provide some intuition for how all of the parts fit together to create the fundamental building blocks of our universe.

Interviews

The Bridge Between Math and Quantum Field Theory

By Emily Buder
June 23, 2021

Even in an incomplete state, quantum field theory is the most successful physical theory ever discovered. Nathan Seiberg, one of its leading architects, reveals where math and QFT converge.

Interviews

What’s Inside an Exoplanet?

By Emily Buder
June 15, 2021

Federica Coppari describes how she uses giant lasers to study the insides of exotic exoplanets.

Explainers

Quantum Computers, Explained With Quantum Physics

By Emily Buder
June 8, 2021

Quantum computers aren’t the next generation of supercomputers — they’re something else entirely. Before we can even begin to talk about their potential applications, we need to understand the fundamental physics that drives the theory of quantum computing.


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