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This Physicist Discovered an Escape From Hawking’s Black Hole Paradox

By Natalie Wolchover
August 23, 2021
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The five-decade-old paradox — long thought key to linking quantum theory with Einstein’s theory of gravity — is falling to a new generation of thinkers. Netta Engelhardt is leading the way.

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The Computer Scientist Training AI to Think With Analogies

By John Pavlus
July 14, 2021
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Melanie Mitchell has worked on digital minds for decades. She says they’ll never truly be like ours until they can make analogies.

Math Meets QFT

Nathan Seiberg on How Math Might Complete the Ultimate Physics Theory

By Kevin Hartnett
June 24, 2021
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Even in an incomplete state, quantum field theory is the most successful physical theory ever discovered. Nathan Seiberg, one of its leading architects, talks about the gaps in QFT and how mathematicians could fill them.

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The Materials Scientist Who Studies the Innards of Exoplanets

By Adam Mann
June 15, 2021
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Federica Coppari uses the world’s most powerful laser to recreate the cores of distant worlds.

Color photo of Jordan Ellenberg sitting with a laptop by a lake at sunset
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A Number Theorist Who Connects Math to Other Creative Pursuits

By Steve Nadis
May 27, 2021
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Jordan Ellenberg enjoys studying — and writing about — the mathematics underlying everyday phenomena.

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How to Rewrite the Laws of Physics in the Language of Impossibility

By Amanda Gefter
April 29, 2021
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Chiara Marletto is trying to build a master theory — a set of ideas so fundamental that all other theories would spring from it. Her first step: Invoke the impossible.

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The New Historian of the Smash That Made the Himalayas

By Robin George Andrews
April 14, 2021
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About 60 million years ago, India plowed into Eurasia and pushed up the Himalayas. But when Lucía Pérez-Díaz reconstructed the event in detail, she found that its central mystery depended on a broken geological clock.

A close-up, head-on portrait of computer scientist Rediet Abebe.
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A Computer Scientist Who Tackles Inequality Through Algorithms

By Rachel Crowell
April 1, 2021
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Rediet Abebe uses the tools of theoretical computer science to understand pressing social problems — and try to fix them.

The zoologist Arik Kershenbaum of the University of Cambridge and his dog.
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Why Extraterrestrial Life May Not Seem Entirely Alien

By Dan Falk
March 18, 2021
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The zoologist Arik Kershenbaum argues that because some evolutionary challenges are truly universal, life throughout the cosmos may share certain features.


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