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Francis Su
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To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics

By Kevin Hartnett
February 2, 2017
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The ancient Greeks argued that the best life was filled with beauty, truth, justice, play and love. The mathematician Francis Su knows just where to find them.

Marcus Feldman in his office at Stanford University, CA
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Finding the Actions That Alter Evolution

By Elizabeth Svoboda
January 5, 2017
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The biologist Marcus Feldman creates mathematical models that reveal how cultural traditions can affect the evolution of a species.

Elena Aprile in her lab at Columbia University.
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In the Deep, a Drive to Find Dark Matter

By Joshua Sokol
December 20, 2016
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Elena Aprile now leads the world’s most sensitive dark-matter search. But before she could build her first detector, she had to make herself out of titanium.

Janet Conrad by Kayana Szymczak
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On a Hunt for a Ghost of a Particle

By Maggie McKee
December 8, 2016
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Janet Conrad has a plan to catch the sterile neutrino — an elusive particle, possibly glimpsed by a number of experiments, that would upend what we know about the subatomic world.

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How to Force Our Machines to Play Fair

By Kevin Hartnett
November 23, 2016
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The computer scientist Cynthia Dwork takes abstract concepts like privacy and fairness and adapts them into machine code for the algorithmic age.

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A Conductor of Evolution’s Subtle Symphony

By Stephanie Bucklin
November 3, 2016
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At first, the biologist Richard Lenski thought his long-term experiment on evolution might last for 2,000 generations. Nearly three decades and over 65,000 generations later, he’s still amazed by evolution’s “awesome inventiveness.”

Pencils Down: Experiments in Education

A Wormhole Between Physics and Education

By Thomas Lin
October 18, 2016
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The theoretical particle physicist Helen Quinn has blazed a singular path from the early days of the Standard Model to the latest overhaul of science education in the United States.

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Watching Evolution Happen in Two Lifetimes

By Emily Singer
September 22, 2016
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The biologists Rosemary and Peter Grant have spent four decades on a tiny island in the Galápagos. Their discoveries reveal how new animal species can emerge in just a few generations.

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A Seeker of Dark Matter’s Hidden Light

By Joshua Sokol
September 1, 2016
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The astrophysicist Tracy Slatyer is searching for faint wisps of dark matter annihilating in the early universe — and perhaps in hiding places closer to home.


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