The discovery of the Higgs boson, a subatomic particle responsible for endowing all other particles with mass, is one of the major discoveries of the last decade. To unlock…
Natural Sciences
Mark Hogan , Sébastien Corde
Uwe Bergmann, Loïc Bertrand
Over the past decade there has been a rapid growth in the use of X-ray imaging techniques to study cultural heritage and related fields including art, archaeology and…
Deborah M. Gordon , Richard Paul
The World Health Organization estimates that one of the main consequences of global warming will be an increased burden of mosquito-borne diseases. The spatial complexity of…
Paul Villoutreix
What makes individuals different? How and when do differences appear during early embryogenesis? Can we identify the sources of these differences, from random processes to…
Michal Wrochna
Is the spacetime we are living in the boundary of some higher-dimensional geometric structure? This question, broadly known as the holographic principle, has its quantum…
Gabriel Billings
Bacteria are extraordinarily important to many aspects of our existence, and are both extremely useful, and extremely dangerous, to humans. Many bacteria, both beneficial…
Jennifer Wischhusen
Despite big advances in disease management, hepatocellular carcinoma (a primary liver cancer) remains the second most common cause of cancer death worldwide. Indeed, 50% of…
Emma Puighermanal
The striatum is a brain structure that is highly involved in motor action and reward-based behaviors, and its dysfunction is associated with many important neurological and…
Stacy Malaker
Advancement in the field of cancer treatment is critically tied to the human immune system. For example, a healthy individual’s immune system can eliminate cells that become…
Elizabeth Hadly, Jérôme Mathieu
California’s geology, mining history and atmospheric deposition have led to an accumulation of the toxicant mercury in the Bay Area, with troubling implications for human…
Luke Sturm
I developed a model to understand protein-RNA subject interactions. The lab I worked in had already developed ways to predict protein-protein and protein-…
Tara Shannon
I worked in a research lab under France’s National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) in Paris. I was assigned a Ph.D. advisor, who helped…
Mirae Parker
I participated in a plasma physics research internship at Ecole Centrale, an engineering/science university to the southwest of Paris.
My work involved measuring the…
Geneviève Robin
Personalized medical care in the fields of statistics relies on comparing new patient profiles to existing medical records, in order to predict patient response to…