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The Astrophysicist Who Sculpts Stars Before They Are Born

By Zack Savitsky
July 20, 2022
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Nia Imara is working to understand the mysterious clouds of gas and dust that collapse into stars.

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An Immunologist Fights Covid with Tweets and a Nasal Spray

By Yasemin Saplakoglu
June 21, 2022
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Akiko Iwasaki, an immunologist who became a lifeline for the worried and the curious during the pandemic, thinks that nasal spray vaccines could be the next needed breakthrough in our fight against the coronavirus.

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The Computer Scientist Who Parlays Failures Into Breakthroughs

By Mordechai Rorvig
June 13, 2022
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Daniel Spielman solves important problems by thinking hard — about other questions.

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How to Write Software With Mathematical Perfection

By Sheon Han
May 17, 2022
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Leslie Lamport revolutionized how computers talk to each other. Now he’s working on how engineers talk to their machines.

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Pondering the Bits That Build Space-Time and Brains

By Charlie Wood
April 20, 2022
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Vijay Balasubramanian investigates whether the fabric of the universe might be built from information, and what it means that physicists can even ask such a question.

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In Search of Cracks in Albert Einstein’s Theory of Gravity

By Thomas Lewton
February 23, 2022
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Celia Escamilla-Rivera is combining large data sets with supercomputers to test general relativity against its little-known competitors.

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When a Gene Illness Discovery Means Breaking Bad News

By Rachel Crowell
December 14, 2021
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When scientists discover genes linked to dangerous illnesses in their samples, how should they convey that news to the study participants? The geneticist Cristen Willer had to tackle that challenge.

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The Mathematician Who Delights in Building Bridges

By Steve Nadis
November 17, 2021
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Ana Caraiani seeks to unify mathematics through her work on the ambitious Langlands program.

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Her Machine Learning Tools Pull Insights From Cell Images

By Esther Landhuis
November 2, 2021
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The computational biologist Anne Carpenter creates software that brings the power of machine learning to researchers seeking answers in mountains of cell images.


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