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Lucy Reading-Ikkanda

Lucy Reading-Ikkanda

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Hidden Structure

A New Map of All the Particles and Forces

By Natalie Wolchover +2 authors
Samuel Velasco
Lucy Reading-Ikkanda
October 22, 2020
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We’ve created a new way to explore the fundamental constituents of the universe.

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What Is the Geometry of the Universe?

By Erica Klarreich +1 authors
Lucy Reading-Ikkanda
March 16, 2020
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In our mind’s eye, the universe seems to go on forever. But using geometry we can explore a variety of three-dimensional shapes that offer alternatives to “ordinary” infinite space.

Red slime mold
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Seeing the Beautiful Intelligence of Microbes

By John Rennie +1 authors
Lucy Reading-Ikkanda
November 13, 2017
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Bacterial biofilms and slime molds are more than crude patches of goo. Detailed time-lapse microscopy reveals how they sense and explore their surroundings, communicate with their neighbors and adaptively reshape themselves.

Thinking Places

Jason Morgan Recalls Discovering Earth’s Tectonic Plates

By Natalie Wolchover +2 authors
Olena Shmahalo
Lucy Reading-Ikkanda
August 28, 2017
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Jason Morgan developed the theory of plate tectonics in 1967 while working among a critical mass of talented geophysicists at Princeton University.

Janet Conrad
Thinking Places

Janet Conrad, Seeker of Neutrinos and Other Curiosities

By Michael Moyer +2 authors
Olena Shmahalo
Lucy Reading-Ikkanda
August 21, 2017
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The physicist and curios collector hopes to reveal the hidden structure lurking in the subatomic world.

Joe Polchinsky at the Kavli Institute
Thinking Places

Joe Polchinski’s Restless Pursuit of Quantum Gravity

By Natalie Wolchover +2 authors
Olena Shmahalo
Lucy Reading-Ikkanda
August 7, 2017
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The pot-stirring string theorist and quantum gravity theorist never sits still for long.

Eva Silverstein at Stanford University
Thinking Places

Eva Silverstein’s Spirals and Strings

By Natalie Wolchover +2 authors
Olena Shmahalo
Lucy Reading-Ikkanda
July 17, 2017
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Daily bike rides, serendipitous interactions and long periods of solo thinking inspire this string cosmologist.

Subhash Khot
Thinking Places

Subhash Khot, Playing Unique Games in Washington Square Park

By Thomas Lin +2 authors
Olena Shmahalo
Lucy Reading-Ikkanda
July 10, 2017
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The theoretical computer scientist behind the influential Unique Games Conjecture delights in the wonders of New York’s Washington Square Park, where he ponders the impossible.

Juan Maldacena
Thinking Places

Juan Maldacena, Pondering Quantum Gravity by the Pond

By Natalie Wolchover +2 authors
Olena Shmahalo
Lucy Reading-Ikkanda
June 23, 2017
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One of the world’s preeminent theoretical physicists seeks a quiet place to think.


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About the author

Before joining Quanta Magazine in 2017, Lucy Reading-Ikkanda spent 13 years creating illustrations and information graphics for various clients, including seven years as an art director, designer and illustrator for Scientific American and two years as the art director for The Scientist. Her work has also been featured in Science, Nature, Wired, The Atlantic, The Guardian, the Los Angeles Times, NPR, Nautilus, Popular Mechanics and other publications. She grew up in South Wales, U.K., and studied at the Falmouth School of Art, the University of Kent and the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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