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Elements of Marie Curie
When pressed to write a memoir, Marie Curie—two-time Nobel Prize winner and the only person to win for two different fields of science— said that her life could be summed up in three sentences: “I was born in Warsaw of a family of teachers. I...
Read MoreThe mRNA Nobelist
One day in 1997, University of Pennsylvania molecular biologist Katalin (Kati) Karikó met a new hire at the photocopier who would change the trajectory of her research forever. At 42, the scientist had made little headway with her big idea that mRNA—the ephemeral molecule that...
Read MoreCat in the Agraharam
The wealth of contemporary Tamil literature has always been just out of reach for readers like me who speak the mother tongue well enough but tend to stumble over the printed word. But you don't need Tamil roots to appreciate this new collection of translated...
Read MoreThe Hospital Rooftop Farm
One evening during this summer of record high temperatures I went on a free public tour of a large farm in the heart of our fair city. To reach this destination, I took the orange freight elevator three stories up at the power plant building...
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