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2016
2016x1
Leslie Valiant: Searching for the Algorithms Underlying Life
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Leslie Valiant explains the term "ecorithm."
2016x2
Are We Alone in the Universe?
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David Kaplan explores the best ways to search for alien life on distant planets.
2016x3
Michael Atiyah's Imaginative State of Mind
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Michael Atiyah discusses beauty in mathematics.
2016x4
David Deamer: How We’re Studying the Origins of Life
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David Deamer explains how his laboratory mimics the extreme conditions found on volcanoes in the early Earth.
2016x5
Is That 'Bump' a New Particle?
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David Kaplan explains how a curious signal in the Large Hadron Collider's latest data could upset the Standard Model of physics — or mean nothing at all.
2016x6
Tiny Tests Seek the Universe's Big Mysteries
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David Moore explains why we might expect to find strange things when we study gravity at small scales.
2016x7
David Moore: Tabletop Physics
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Stanford University physicist David Moore explains how his team’s tabletop experiment uses lasers and tiny glass spheres to test gravity.
2016x8
Janna Levin on Science and Culture
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Janna Levin talks about her roles as scientific director at a “center for art and innovation” in Brooklyn and as a physicist and writer.
2016x9
Ken Ono: A Life Inspired by an Unexpected Genius
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Ken Ono explains how Ramanujan has served as his “guardian angel” throughout his life and career.
2016x10
Suchitra Sebastian: An Explorer of Quantum Borderlands
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Suchitra Sebastian talks about how extreme conditions can create unexpected quantum behavior.
2016x11
How Does Life Come From Randomness?
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David Kaplan explains how the law of increasing entropy could drive random bits of matter into the stable, orderly structures of life.
2016x12
Miranda Cheng: A Moonshine Master Toys with String Theory
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Miranda Cheng explains what umbral moonshine is and how it might illuminate string theory.
2016x13
Tracy Slatyer: A Seeker of Dark Matter’s Hidden Light
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Tracy Slatyer explains why she’s not disappointed when a mysterious cosmic signal turns out to be something other than dark matter.
2016x14
Peter and Rosemary Grant
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Peter and Rosemary Grant explain how our understanding of evolution has changed in their lifetimes.
2016x15
Pencils Down: The Art of Teaching Math and Science
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What can we learn from the best teachers on the front lines? To shine a spotlight on this linchpin of our education system, Quanta Magazine followed four master science and math teachers into their classrooms.
2016x16
Pencils Down: Channa Comer of Baychester Middle School
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Channa Comer teaches 6th-grade science. She focuses on engagement so kids will want to keep learning.
2016x17
Pencils Down: Mike Zitolo of School of the Future
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Michael Zitolo is turning the way science is approached in the classroom upside down.
2016x18
Pencils Down: Soni Midha of East Side Community High School
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In school or in life, Soni Midha wants her math students to be able to prove why something is correct.
2016x19
Pencils Down: Aaron Mathieu of Acton-Boxborough Regional High School
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Students need a chance to fail at science to learn about its process, says Aaron Mathieu.
2016x20
Pencils Down: Channa Comer Teaching About Scientific Controls
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What's a control? Channa Comer challenges her students to explain and work things out for themselves.
2016x21
Helen Quinn: A Wormhole Between Physics and Education
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A Wormhole Between Physics and Education
2016x22
Michael Costanzo: Giant Genetic Map Reveals Life’s Hidden Links
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Michael Costanzo, a biologist at the University of Toronto and a lead author on the new study, explains why it’s important to understand how genes interact.
2016x23
Richard Lenski: A Conductor of Evolution’s Subtle Symphony
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Richard Lenski discusses how he has been surprised by evolution.
2016x24
Cynthia Dwork: How to Force Our Machines to Play Fair
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Cynthia Dwork explains how to conduct a survey that asks people if they do embarrassing — or even illicit — things.
2016x25
Erik Verlinde: The Case Against Dark Matter
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Erik Verlinde describes how emergent gravity and dark energy can explain away dark matter.
2016x26
Janet Conrad: On a Hunt for a Ghost of a Particle
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Janet Conrad explains how sterile neutrinos might help physicists move past the Standard Model.
2016x27
Elena Aprile: In the Deep, a Drive to Find Dark Matter
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Elena Aprile explains how she hunts for dark matter in the world’s largest underground laboratory.