Playwright and performer Sarah Jones displays a genius for climbing into other people's skin
Paleobiologist Aaron O'Dea has made his name by sweating the small stuff
Novelist ZZ Packer uses humor to point up some disconcerting signposts along America's racial divide
Astrophysicist Lisa Kaltenegger analyzes light from distant stars for evidence we're not alone
Where are your friends in cyberspace? Closer than you might think, says Internet researcher Jon Kleinberg
In a painstaking study of 1960s Atlanta, Kevin Kruse takes suburban whites to task
Pianist Jason Moran laces his strikingly original music with the soulful sounds of jazz greats
Composer Nico Muhly wowed them at Carnegie Hall and the New York Public Library
How does prejudice affect people? Psychologist Jennifer Richeson is on the case
Faced with the Internet's overwhelming clutter, Joshua Schachter invented a deceptively simple tool that helps us all cut to the chase
Terence Tao is regarded as first among equals among young mathematicians, but who's counting
Anthropologist Amber VanDerwarker is unraveling the mysteries of the ancient Olmec by figuring out what they ate
Luis von Ahn's secret for making computers smarter? Get thousands of people to take part in his cunning online games
With a possible pandemic in our future, immunologist John Wherry is racing to develop a once-a-lifetime vaccine
As buccanneering is back with a vengeance, stepped-up law enforcement and high-tech tools work to help protect shipping on the high seas
The Supreme Court may soon reinvent the rules for invention
In 1849, a future president patented an amazing addition to transportation technology
The king of software takes on his biggest challenge yet
At first, nobody bought Chester Carlson's strange idea. But trillions of documents later, his invention is the biggest thing in printing since Gutenburg
In an innovative program, prison inmates are raising puppies to be guide dogs for the blind
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