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The Computer Scientist Who Shrinks Big Data

By Allison Whitten
December 7, 2020
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Jelani Nelson designs clever algorithms that only have to remember slivers of massive data sets. He also teaches kids in Ethiopia how to code.

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Searching Symbols for the Rules of Change

By Rachel Crowell
November 17, 2020
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Bryna Kra searches for the patterns in sequences of numbers that explain how complicated dynamical systems evolve over time.

Cora Dvorkin in front of a starry backdrop.
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The Cosmologist Who Dreams in the Universe’s Dark Threads

By Rebecca Boyle
November 5, 2020
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Cora Dvorkin discovered new possibilities for what dark matter could be. Now she’s devising unorthodox ways to identify it.

Harvard professor L. Mahadevan stands in a slightly cluttered office, holding an apple and a jar containing a miniature brain
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A Scientist Who Delights in the Mundane

By Steve Nadis
October 26, 2020
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From crumpled paper to termite mounds to three-sided coins, L. Mahadevan has turned the whole world into his laboratory.

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To Boldly Go Where No Internet Protocol Has Gone Before

By Susan D'Agostino
October 21, 2020
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Vinton Cerf helped create the internet 40 years ago, and he’s still working to connect people around the world — and off it.

Computer scientist and complexity researcher Carlos Gershenson of the National Autonomous University of Mexico stands by a busy urban roadway.
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Complexity Scientist Beats Traffic Jams Through Adaptation

By Rodrigo Pérez Ortega
September 28, 2020
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To tame urban traffic, the computer scientist Carlos Gershenson finds that letting transportation systems adapt and self-organize often works better than trying to predict and control them.

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Conducting the Mathematical Orchestra From the Middle

By Rachel Crowell
September 2, 2020
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Emily Riehl is rewriting the foundations of higher category theory while also working to make mathematics more inclusive.

Claudia de Rham portrait
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The Physicist Who Slayed Gravity’s Ghosts

By Thomas Lewton
August 18, 2020
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Claudia de Rham showed how theories of “massive gravity” could potentially get rid of the need for dark energy.

John Priscu holds an ice core sample in a sterile laboratory.
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He Found ‘Islands of Fertility’ Beneath Antarctica’s Ice

By Steve Nadis
July 20, 2020
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John Priscu’s search for life that thrives under ice took him to subglacial lakes at the South Pole. Now he has his eye on Mars and Europa.


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