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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.

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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.

Po-Shen Loh standing on a stairway in front of a colored wall outside of his office in Pittsburgh.
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The Coach Who Led the U.S. Math Team Back to the Top

By Max G. Levy
February 16, 2021
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Po-Shen Loh has harnessed his competitive impulses and iconoclastic tendencies to reinvigorate the U.S. Math Olympiad program.

Matthew Genge in a yellow shirt and gray jacket seated at a microscope.
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What Dust From Space Tells Us About Ourselves

By Natalie Wolchover
February 4, 2021
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Micrometeorites constantly fall on every corner of Earth. Matthew Genge is using these shards of interplanetary space to understand Earth and its place in the solar system.

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The NASA Engineer Who’s a Mathematician at Heart

By Susan D'Agostino
January 19, 2021
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Christine Darden worked at NASA for 40 years, helping make supersonic planes quieter and forging a path for women to follow in her footsteps.

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A Prodigy Who Cracked Open the Cosmos

By Claudia Dreifus
January 12, 2021
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Frank Wilczek has been at the forefront of theoretical physics for the past 50 years. He talks about winning the Nobel Prize for work he did as a student, his solution to the dark matter problem, and the God of a scientist.

Portrait photo of Catherine Dulac of Harvard University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
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Catherine Dulac Finds Brain Circuitry Behind Sex-Specific Behaviors

By Claudia Dreifus
December 14, 2020
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Catherine Dulac is overturning preconceptions about “male” and “female” instincts and opening new avenues to treating postpartum depression.


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