Science at Sundance 2023
Illustration by Islenia Mil for Science This year I had a chance two science-related films screened at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah -- two vastly different films, but both struck a chord. Poacher A…
Lindy Elkins-Tanton Principal Investigator of the Psyche mission Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
The Journey of An Anti Hero
In the summer of 2022, a spacecraft will begin its 3.4-year journey towards Psyche, a huge metal-rich asteroid located between Mars and Jupiter. Most other asteroids – and there are around 1,500,000 of them…
Queen of Carbon
Queen of Carbon
Dr. Mildred S. Dresselhaus, of Lincoln Laboratory, who has achieved prominence as a solid-statephysicist has been appointed Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Visiting Professor at the MassachusettsInstitute of Technology, read a small news item in the Boston…
Girl, Decoded
Rana el Kaliouby sketched by R. Rajesh of The Hindu As she sat in a taxi headed to Cairo International Airport in September 2001, Rana el Kaliouby remembers thinking, “Am I really going through with…
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Can postdocs be job creators instead of job seekers?
As Ronan McGovern was finishing up his Ph.D., he was eager to commercialize the energy-efficient seawater desalination process he had developed. He had already done some legwork to find a market and had found an…
Curiosity Rover Driver
The first motorized vehicle that Vandi Verma ever operated was a tractor. “I must've been 11 years old at the time,” she told Science. During school vacations, she visited her grandparents, who lived in a…