Meet One of NASA's Pioneering Women
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Meet One of NASA's Pioneering Women
In 1967, Christine Darden was added to the pool of "human computers" who wrote complex programs and tediously crunched numbers for engineers at NASA's Langle...
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What Makes Physics Beautiful, According to a Nobel Prize Winner
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What Makes Physics Beautiful, According to a Nobel Prize Winner
In 1972, Frank Wilczek and his thesis adviser, David Gross, discovered the basic theory of the strong force — the final pillar of the Standard Model of parti...
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The Riemann Hypothesis, Explained
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The Riemann Hypothesis, Explained
The Riemann hypothesis is the most notorious unsolved problem in all of mathematics. Ever since it was first proposed by Bernhard Riemann in 1859, the conjec...
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The Mysteries of Life Under the Ice—on Earth and Beyond
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The Mysteries of Life Under the Ice—on Earth and Beyond
The microbial ecologist John Priscu of Montana State University discusses what led him to seek life beneath the barren, frozen wastes of Antarctica — and how...
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Claudia de Rham: “Gravity Is the Law That Makes Everything Happen”
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Claudia de Rham: “Gravity Is the Law That Makes Everything Happen”
The theoretical physicist Claudia de Rham explains why gravity is so fundamental to our understanding of everything in the universe. Read the full interview ...
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Emily Riehl: Mathematician, Musician, Educator
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Emily Riehl: Mathematician, Musician, Educator
Emily Riehl talks about how higher category theory is like the viola, why she's drawn to expository writing, and the responsibility mathematicians have to ad...
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Emily Riehl Is Rewriting Higher Category Theory
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Emily Riehl Is Rewriting Higher Category Theory
By turning higher category theory on itself, Emily Riehl hopes to make the powerful perspective more accessible to other mathematicians. Read the full interv...
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Urban Traffic and Complex Systems — Carlos Gershenson
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Urban Traffic and Complex Systems — Carlos Gershenson
Carlos Gershenson, a computer scientist and complexity researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, answers questions about how principles of ...
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Cracking the Puzzle of Biodiversity
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Cracking the Puzzle of Biodiversity
MIT physicist Jeff Gore tests theories about microbe communities experimentally and finds new rules governing ecological stability. Read more on Quanta Magaz...
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The Extraordinary Math Hidden in Everyday Life
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The Extraordinary Math Hidden in Everyday Life
L. Mahadevan is a professor of applied mathematics, physics, and organismic and evolutionary biology at Harvard University. He uses mathematics and physics t...
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