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Liz MacDonald holding a banner printed with the STEVE aurora.
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The Scientist Leading the World’s Aurora Hunters

By Robin George Andrews
July 9, 2020
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Liz MacDonald realized that if she wanted to create the world’s best aurora map, she needed a secret ingredient: Twitter.

Katie Mack portrait.
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This Cosmologist Knows How It’s All Going to End

By Dan Falk
June 22, 2020
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The astrophysicist and social media phenom Katie Mack is ready to tell you about the fate of the universe.

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The Computer Scientist Who Can’t Stop Telling Stories

By Susan D'Agostino
April 16, 2020
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For pioneering computer scientist Donald Knuth, good coding is synonymous with beautiful expression.

Paleontologist Pincelli Hull
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A Rapid End Strikes the Dinosaur Extinction Debate

By Joshua Sokol
March 25, 2020
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The paleontologist Pincelli Hull has nailed down the timing and speed of the extinction that killed off the dinosaurs — details that carry ominous warnings for today.

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Cryptography Pioneer Seeks Secure Elections the Low-Tech Way

By Susan D'Agostino
March 12, 2020
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Ronald Rivest helped come up with the RSA algorithm, which safeguards online commerce. Now he’s hoping to make democratic elections more trustworthy.

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The Man Making Rwanda Into a Hub for Physics

By Thomas Lewton
March 3, 2020
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As the founding director of a new institute for fundamental research in Rwanda, the physicist Omololu Akin-Ojo hopes to stem the brain drain of Africa’s brightest minds.

Photo of James P. Allison sitting at his desk at the MD Anderson Cancer Center.
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The Contrarian Who Cures Cancers

By Claudia Dreifus
February 3, 2020
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James P. Allison believed that unleashing the immune system was a way to beat cancer when almost no one else did. A Nobel Prize and a growing list of cancer survivors vindicate him.

Photo of Scarlett Howard, a researcher at the University of Toulouse, working with honeybees
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Secrets of Math From the Bee Whisperer

By Susan D'Agostino
January 22, 2020
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As Scarlett Howard taught honeybees to do arithmetic, they showed her how fundamental numbers might be to all brains.

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The Architect of Modern Algorithms

By Susan D'Agostino
November 20, 2019
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Barbara Liskov pioneered the modern approach to writing code. She warns that the challenges facing computer science today can’t be overcome with good design alone.


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