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- 1 1. Scarlett Howard on the Lessons of Teaching Bees Math2020-01-22Scarlett Howard describes how and why she taught honeybees math.
- 2 2. Nobel Laureate James P. Allison on the Origins of His Cancer Immunotherapy Research2020-02-03James P. Allison of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center discusses what initially drew him to immunology as a field and why many scientists used to be skeptical that a
- 3 3. Omololu Akin-Ojo: Doing Cutting-Edge Physics in Africa2020-03-03Omololu Akin-Ojo of the East African Institute for Fundamental Research discusses his plans to invigorate theoretical physics in Africa, including by focusing on problems related t
- 4 4. Ronald Rivest on Building Better Elections2020-03-12Ronald Rivest of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology describes the role of computers in voting and what makes elections trustworthy.
- 5 5. Pincelli Hull Explains What Killed Off the Dinosaurs2020-03-25Evidence from the oceans decisively shows that an asteroid strike caused the last mass extinction, argues Pincelli Hull. The cataclysm continues to hold lessons for today.
- 6 6. Epidemiologist Tara Smith Answers Your Coronavirus Questions2020-05-01Dr. Tara C. Smith is an infectious disease epidemiologist and contributing columnist for Quanta Magazine. In two recent columns for Quanta, Dr. Smith explored the animal origins of
- 7 7. Epidemiologist Tara Smith Answers Your Coronavirus Questions [Highlights]2020-05-07Dr. Tara C. Smith is an infectious disease epidemiologist and contributing columnist for Quanta Magazine. In two recent columns for Quanta, Dr. Smith explored the animal origins of
- 8 8. Katie Mack Knows How It’s All Going to End2020-06-22Katie Mack describes the most likely scenario for the end of the universe.
- 9 9. James Maynard Solves the Hardest Easy Math Problems2020-07-01James Maynard talks about why he’s obsessed with prime numbers.
- 10 10. Liz MacDonald on Strange Auroras2020-07-09Space weather scientist Liz MacDonald studies unique atmospheric phenomena such as the aurora called STEVE.
- 11 11. Impossible Life Under the Ice—on Earth and Beyond2020-07-20The microbial ecologist John Priscu of Montana State University discusses what led him to seek life beneath the barren, frozen wastes of Antarctica — and how his discoveries there
- 12 12. 'Gravity Is the Law That Makes Everything Happen'2020-08-18The theoretical physicist Claudia de Rham explains why gravity is so fundamental to our understanding of everything in the universe.
- 13 13. Emily Riehl: Mathematician, Musician, Educator2020-09-02Emily Riehl talks about how higher category theory is like the viola, why she's drawn to expository writing, and the responsibility mathematicians have to address social justice is
- 14 14. The Woman Who's Rewriting Higher Category Theory2020-09-03By turning higher category theory on itself, Emily Riehl hopes to make the powerful perspective more accessible to other mathematicians.
- 15 15. Urban Traffic and Complex Systems2020-09-28Carlos Gershenson, a computer scientist and complexity researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, answers questions about how principles of adaptation and self-org
- 16 16. Cracking the Puzzle of Biodiversity2020-10-14MIT physicist Jeff Gore tests theories about microbe communities experimentally and finds new rules governing ecological stability.
- 17 17. The Bold Quest to Launch the Internet in Space2020-10-21Vint Cerf is one of the fathers of the internet. Decades ago, he and Robert Kahn developed the architecture and protocol suite known as Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Proto
- 18 18. The Extraordinary Math Hidden in Everyday Life2020-10-26L. Mahadevan is a professor of applied mathematics, physics, and organismic and evolutionary biology at Harvard University. He uses mathematics and physics to explore commonplace p
- 19 19. The Cosmologist Who Dreams of Dark Matter2020-11-05Cora Dvorkin studies the invisible universe. Known as dark matter, it is thought to comprise roughly 85% of all matter in the universe. So far, no researcher has been able to direc
- 20 20. Inside Dynamical Systems and the Mathematics of Change2020-11-17Bryna Kra searches for structures using symbolic dynamics. “[I love] finding order where you didn’t know it existed,” she said. "This is how I think about math: It’s about how thin
- 21 21. How to Shrink Big Data2020-12-07Jelani Nelson, a computer scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, expands the theoretical possibilities for low-memory streaming algorithms. He’s discovered the best p
- 22 22. The 'Male' and 'Female' Brain: New Clues in an Age-Old Question2020-12-14Questions like “why do men and women act differently?” are age-old, with tangled, deeply buried answers. But that is why Catherine Dulac, a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator and a
- 23 23. 2020's Biggest Breakthroughs in Physics2020-12-23This year, two teams of physicists made profound progress on ideas that could bring about the next revolution in physics. Another still has identified the source of a longstanding
- 24 24. 2020's Biggest Breakthroughs in Math and Computer Science2020-12-24For mathematicians and computer scientists, 2020 was full of discipline-spanning discoveries and celebrations of creativity. We'd like to take a moment to recognize some of these a
- 25 25. 2020's Biggest Breakthroughs in Biology2020-12-25In 2020, the study of the SARS-CoV-2 virus was undoubtedly the most urgent priority. But there were also some major breakthroughs in other areas. We'd like to take a moment to reco
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