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Tadashi Tokieda discovers new physical phenomena by looking at the everyday world with the eyes of a child.
A scientist and programmer with a literary bent, Valeria Pettorino thinks multiple angles and diverse points of view are needed to unriddle the nature of dark matter and dark energy.
Mario Jurić is leading the push to get astronomy ready for the torrents of data that are about to flow.
Renee Reijo Pera has spent decades uncovering how the timing of embryonic development contributes to health and disease.
Maria-Luiza Pedrotti is illuminating the unseen worlds of plastic-eating bacteria that teem in massive ocean garbage patches.
Rosaly Lopes has visited dozens of active volcanoes on Earth and discovered even more elsewhere in the solar system. Her work is helping to establish whether volcanoes on distant moons could create conditions friendly to life.
Sau Lan Wu spent decades working to establish the Standard Model of particle physics. Now she’s searching for what lies beyond it.
The physicist Lisa Manning studies the dynamics of glassy materials to understand embryonic development and disease.
In an era when untestable ideas such as the multiverse hold sway, Michela Massimi defends science from those who think it hopelessly unmoored from physical reality.