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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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The Astronomer Who’s About to See the Skies of Other Earths

By Thomas Lewton
October 12, 2021
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After the ultra-powerful James Webb Space Telescope launches later this year, Laura Kreidberg will lead two efforts to check the weather on rocky planets orbiting other stars.

Neuroscientist Anil Seth in his darkened laboratory at the University of Sussex.
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Anil Seth Finds Consciousness in Life’s Push Against Entropy

By Dan Falk
September 30, 2021
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How does consciousness arise in mere flesh and blood? To the neuroscientist Anil Seth, our organic bodies are the key to the experience.

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Karen Miga Fills In the Missing Pieces of Our Genome

By Carrie Arnold
September 8, 2021
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Driven by her fascination with highly repetitive, hard-to-read parts of our DNA, Karen Miga led a coalition of researchers to finish sequencing the human genome after almost two decades.

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This Physicist Discovered an Escape From Hawking’s Black Hole Paradox

By Natalie Wolchover
August 23, 2021
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The five-decade-old paradox — long thought key to linking quantum theory with Einstein’s theory of gravity — is falling to a new generation of thinkers. Netta Engelhardt is leading the way.

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The Computer Scientist Training AI to Think With Analogies

By John Pavlus
July 14, 2021
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Melanie Mitchell has worked on digital minds for decades. She says they’ll never truly be like ours until they can make analogies.


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