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Cryptography Pioneer Seeks Secure Elections the Low-Tech Way

By Susan D'Agostino
March 12, 2020
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Ronald Rivest helped come up with the RSA algorithm, which safeguards online commerce. Now he’s hoping to make democratic elections more trustworthy.

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The Man Making Rwanda Into a Hub for Physics

By Thomas Lewton
March 3, 2020
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As the founding director of a new institute for fundamental research in Rwanda, the physicist Omololu Akin-Ojo hopes to stem the brain drain of Africa’s brightest minds.

Photo of James P. Allison sitting at his desk at the MD Anderson Cancer Center.
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The Contrarian Who Cures Cancers

By Claudia Dreifus
February 3, 2020
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James P. Allison believed that unleashing the immune system was a way to beat cancer when almost no one else did. A Nobel Prize and a growing list of cancer survivors vindicate him.

Photo of Scarlett Howard, a researcher at the University of Toulouse, working with honeybees
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Secrets of Math From the Bee Whisperer

By Susan D'Agostino
January 22, 2020
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As Scarlett Howard taught honeybees to do arithmetic, they showed her how fundamental numbers might be to all brains.

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The Architect of Modern Algorithms

By Susan D'Agostino
November 20, 2019
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Barbara Liskov pioneered the modern approach to writing code. She warns that the challenges facing computer science today can’t be overcome with good design alone.

Virginia Trimble at UC Irvine.
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Virginia Trimble Has Seen the Stars

By Elizabeth Landau
November 11, 2019
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How a young celebrity became one of the first female astronomers at Caltech, befriended Richard Feynman, and ended up the world’s foremost chronicler of the science of the night sky.

Stephanie Wehner in a red suit standing in a glass-paneled corridor at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. Her reflection appears in the glass to the right and left.
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To Invent a Quantum Internet

By Natalie Wolchover
September 25, 2019
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Fifty years after the current internet was born, the physicist and computer scientist Stephanie Wehner is planning and designing the next internet — a quantum one.

Craig Callender holding a paddleboard at the beach.
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Are We All Wrong About Black Holes?

By Brendan Z. Foster
September 5, 2019
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Since the 1970s, physicists have described black holes using borrowed versions of the laws of thermodynamics. But are black holes really thermodynamic systems? Craig Callender worries that the analogy has been stretched too far.

The researcher Iyad Rahwan sitting at his desk.
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The Anthropologist of Artificial Intelligence

By John Pavlus
August 26, 2019
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Iyad Rahwan’s radical idea: The best way to understand algorithms is to observe their behavior in the wild.


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