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Joseph E. LeDoux a Fellow of the American Academy since 2006, is the Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Science at New York University. He is the author of the books Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are, The Emotional Brain, and Anxious: Using the Brain to Better Understand and Treat Fear and Anxiety.

Joseph E. LeDoux

Neuroscience

Feelings: What Are They and How Does the Brain Make Them?

Don S. Lemons is Emeritus Professor of Physics at Bethel College in North Newton, Kansas.

Don S. Lemons

Arts

Drawing Physics

Adam Gazzaley is a professor in the Departments of Neurology, Physiology, and Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, where he is also the founding director of the Neuroscience Imaging Center, Neuroscape Lab, and the Gazzaley Lab. Recipient of the 2015 Society for Neuroscience Science Educator Award, he wrote and hosted the nationally televised PBS special The Distracted Mind with Dr. Adam Gazzaley.

Adam Gazzaley

Psychology

The Distracted Mind

Joshua Holden

Technology

How Classical Cryptography Will Survive Quantum Computers

Brian Gallagher is an associate editor at Nautilus. Follow him on X (formerly known as Twitter) <a href="https://twitter.com/bsgallagher/" rel="noopener">@bsgallagher</a>.

Brian Gallagher

How Should Society Judge a Defendant with a Brain Tumor?

David Baker is the director of the Institute for Protein Design at the University of Washington.

David Baker

Microbiology

Unleashing the Power of Synthetic Proteins

Dan Egan

Environment

The Cancer of the Great Lakes

Michael Segal

To Fix the Climate, Tell Better Stories

Hugh Aldersey-Williams

Zoology

The Evolutionary Pull of Ocean Tides

Amy Maxmen

Genetics

Why Evolution Is Ageist

Stuart J. Davies is the Frank H. Levinson Chair in Global Forest Science and the director of the Forest Global Earth Observatory-Center for Tropical Forest Science at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.

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