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Science’s rising stars
There are bright futures ahead for our first-ever Young American Scientist honorees
Jaye Gardiner
Learning how the matrix around cells and tissues impacts cancers
Trevor GrandPre
Building models to understand how self-organizing structures in cells lead to disease
Dmitrii Kochkov
Making artificial-intelligence tools to predict what climate change will mean for extreme weather
Mikhail Kolmogorov
Developing software to reveal large genetic changes that lead to cancer
Erini Lambrides
Characterizing the “Little Red Dots” to decipher the beginnings of galaxies
Glaciers are secretly teeming with life
What does it take for an insect or worm to live full-time on a glacier?
Russia seeks mathematician’s extradition
Mikhail Verbitsky was detained at an Armenian airport last Thursday on charges of inciting terrorism
How an aspiring actress from Brooklyn stumbled into an astrophysics career at NASA
This young researcher’s unlikely journey into academia will change the way you think about science, failure and belonging
NASA’s Chandra Observatory spots possible supernova remnant in the middle of our galaxy
If the supernova remnant is confirmed, it would be one of the closest to the supermassive black hole that lies in the center of the Milky Way
Ancient ground squirrels feasted on carcasses like ‘zombies of the Pleistocene’
Fossilized poo harbors remains from mammoths, bison and big cats, including some of the oldest DNA ever reconstructed
Inside the race to develop a new Ebola vaccine
As Ebola rages, Moderna and others are racing to develop an mRNA vaccine for the rare Bundibugyo virus driving the current outbreak
World-first: therapy to make cells young again given to a person
The first participant has been treated in a landmark clinical trial of cellular reprogramming, which aims to rejuvenate aging cells
U.S. industries push to revive tungsten production amid shortage
Tungsten is a coveted metal for military uses. Restoring domestic supply could help with ongoing munitions shortages
World Cup camera coverage poses a moving math puzzle
Mathematicians have considered how to watch every corner of a space—but soccer adds moving players, blocked views and constant action
NASA’s experimental quiet supersonic plane passes another critical milestone
NASA’s X-59 research aircraft reached its target speed and altitude for the first time on Friday
