Michael Beard, the aging wunderkind physicist, was worried. “He liked to think he was an...
Topic: natural sciences
Number Sense? Count On It from Birth
Fall 2011
Illustration: Robert Neubecker When Melissa Libertus was in high school, she loved math—and was so...
Art and Amnesia: Solving Recovery’s Puzzles
Fall 2011
Back in 2007, Lonni Sue Johnson was a successful artist and illustrator living in upstate...
Seeing the Eye's Not-So-Simple Subtleties
Fall 2011
Long referred to as the window to the soul, the eye also plays an important...
Fresh Perspectives on Autism
Fall 2011
The social met the spatial in Alex Murray’s recent study, which could hold out promise...
Putting the Focus on Quantum Matter
Spring 2011
Scientists in a new institute in the Department of Physics and Astronomy are working to...
At the Frontier of the “Terahertz Gap”
Spring 2011
Physics and Astronomy Professor N. Peter Armitage is quick to point out that many basic...
Data-Scope: The Best, Bar None
Spring 2011
Imagine a tool that is a cross between a powerful electron microscope and the Hubble...
From Cell Proteins to Smoking Cessation
Spring 2011
Some Woodrow Wilson Fellows pursue a single topic over several years. Others, like Karthik Rao,...
Marina Suarez
Spring 2011
“When I was in the second grade, we had a dinosaur unit and since then,...