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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.

Carlo Rubbia giving a lecture with a colorful PowerPoint slide on the screen behind him.
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A Call for Courage as Physicists Confront Collider Dilemma

By Thomas Lewton
August 7, 2019
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Carlo Rubbia, leader of the bold collider experiment that in 1983 discovered the W and Z bosons, thinks particle physicists should now smash muons together in an innovative “Higgs factory.”

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His Artificial Intelligence Sees Inside Living Cells

By John Pavlus
July 24, 2019
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The computer vision scientist Greg Johnson is building systems that can recognize organelles on sight and show the dynamics of living cells more clearly than microscopy can.

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Curious About Consciousness? Ask the Self-Aware Machines

By John Pavlus
July 11, 2019
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Consciousness is a famously hard problem, so Hod Lipson is starting from the basics: with self-aware robots that can help us understand how we think.

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How to Understand the Universe When You’re Stuck Inside of It

By Amanda Gefter
June 27, 2019
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Lee Smolin’s radical idea to reimagine how we view the universe.

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A Mathematician Whose Only Constant Is Change

By Kevin Hartnett
June 13, 2019
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Amie Wilkinson searches for exotic examples of the mathematical structures that describe change.

Art for "In Ecology Studies and Selfless Ants, He Finds Hope for the Future"
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In Ecology Studies and Selfless Ants, He Finds Hope for the Future

By Claudia Dreifus
May 15, 2019
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For more than six decades, the influential biologist Edward O. Wilson has drawn connections between evolution, ecology and behavior, often sparking controversies inside and outside of science.


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