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Michael Atiyah’s Imaginative State of Mind

By Siobhan Roberts
March 3, 2016
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At 86, Britain’s preeminent mathematical matchmaker is still tackling the big questions and dreaming of a union between the quantum and the gravitational forces.

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Searching for the Algorithms Underlying Life

By John Pavlus
January 28, 2016
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The biological world is computational at its core, argues computer scientist Leslie Valiant.

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Taming Superconductors With String Theory

By Kevin Hartnett
January 21, 2016
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The physicist Subir Sachdev borrows tools from string theory to understand the puzzling behavior of high-temperature superconductors.

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The Information Theory of Life

By Kevin Hartnett
November 19, 2015
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The polymath Christoph Adami is investigating life’s origins by reimagining life as self-perpetuating information strings.

Life’s Big Leaps: Critical Moments in Evolution

The Woman Who Stared at Wasps

By Veronique Greenwood
November 5, 2015
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The biologist Joan Strassmann discusses cooperation in social insects, how amoebas can teach us about competition, and why the definition of “organism” needs an overhaul.

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Searching the Sky for the Wobbles of Gravity

By Liz Kruesi
October 22, 2015
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The physicist Gabriela González is on the cusp of finding the first direct evidence of gravitational waves — soundlike wobbles in space-time produced by black holes and their kin.

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An Explorer of Life’s Deepest Partnerships

By Emily Singer
September 17, 2015
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The biologist Nancy Moran has spent a career investigating the surprising nature of symbiosis, a phenomenon in which two species can appear to merge into one.

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The Case for Complex Dark Matter

By Liz Kruesi
August 20, 2015
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The physicist James Bullock explains how a complicated “dark sector” of interacting particles may illuminate some puzzling observations of the centers of galaxies.

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The Connoisseur of Number Sequences

By Erica Klarreich
August 6, 2015
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For more than 50 years, the mathematician Neil Sloane has curated the authoritative collection of interesting and important integer sequences.


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