Vijee Venkatraman

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Frozen Water, Warm Memory

I am an early riser. In the dark winters of New England, I am up even before the sun, and that, you’ll agree, takes some doing. But though I am up, I am, usually, not about. Venturing out before the neighbors have had a chance...

Computer Scientists Get Wet

In the summer of 2008, Wired magazine ran a cover story titled “The End of Science.” Former Editor‑in‑Chief Chris Anderson argued that the data deluge had rewritten the scientific method: with enough information and the computational power to analyze it, correlation could outrun causation, theories...

When All Science becomes Data Science

Ed Lazowska, who holds the Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering at UW, believes that data-driven discovery will become the norm, as he told Science Careers in a recent interview. This new environment, he says, will create and reward researchers (like Loebman) who are...

Forgotten Daughters

Next time you are at a social gathering, try this little experiment. Ask friends and family to name a female scientist. Most will come up with the name of Nobel laureate Marie Curie; some may mention the unsung Rosalind Franklin. No one seems to...

Pollinating His Own Science

Noah Wilson-Rich began studying the health of honeybees as a graduate student at Tufts University in 2005. Growing up in Connecticut, he was not a nature-loving kid -- he recalls being scared of "creepy-crawlies." An undergraduate course in sociobiology, and a subsequent lab project, changed...

Chemistry Was Their Life

Suggest to a present-day high school student in Bangalore who is interested in chemistry that she should not have the same professional ambitions as a boy in her class and she will likely laugh right in your face. Today, in most countries of the world,...