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Biology Meets Computer Science
The computational biologist Anne Carpenter creates software that brings the power of machine learning to researchers seeking answers in mountains of cell images.
This Astronomer Is Determined to Find Another Earth
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.
The Scientific Problem of Consciousness
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.
How Scientists Finally Finished the Human Genome
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.
The Missing Link in Artificial Intelligence
Melanie Mitchell has worked on digital minds for decades. She says they’ll never truly be like ours until they can make analogies.
The Standard Model: The Most Successful Scientific Theory Ever
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.
The Bridge Between Math and Quantum Field Theory
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.
What’s Inside an Exoplanet?
Federica Coppari describes how she uses giant lasers to study the insides of exotic exoplanets.