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One of the greatest mysteries of life is how single cells came together to form multicellular organisms.
Hackers can tweak a microchip so when a certain trigger occurs, it throws open the gates for attackers to commandeer—or destroy—the device in which that chip is embedded.
Danielle Bassett launched her career by challenging a central tenet of neuroscience: Studying the brain by dividing it up into regions that each handle specific tasks fails to capture the wild variety of what the organ can do.
In college, Conor Walsh became interested in the growing field of battery-powered exoskeletons—the robotic, wearable suits that can allow disabled people to walk, or help troops move faster and carry heavier loads with less fatigue.
Suchi Saria always loved designing algorithms.
This year, the world learned that there might be a ninth planet in the solar system. That was thanks to Konstantin Batygin and his collaborator, Mike Brown.
