Princeton University experimental particle physicist

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Jake Currie is a writer based in Brooklyn, NY.

Jake Currie

Physics

You Can Transport Antimatter in a Box Truck?

Jo Marchant is the author of <a href="https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324097488" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In Search of Now: The Science of the Present Moment</a>. She has written several popular books, including The Human Cosmos: Civilization and the Stars and the New York Times bestseller Cure: A Journey Into the Science of Mind over Body, which was shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize and longlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize. She lives in London.

Jo Marchant

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Welcome to the Block Universe

Why Cats Always Land on Their Feet

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The Science Behind the Perfect 3-Point Shot

Physicists Uncover How Long It Takes to Get the Last Drop of Syrup

Physicists Crack the Question of Why Basketball Shoes Squeak

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Devin Reese is the executive editor of Natural History and a science writer based in Alexandria, Virginia.

Devin Reese

Paleontology

New Ape Fossil Could Shift Our Evolutionary Origins Northward

Environment

The Science Behind Being One of a Kind

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Psychology

When Fake Supplements Work

Zoology

Rare Sperm Whale Birth Caught on Video

Iyad Rahwan is a director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, where he founded and directs the Center for Humans &amp; Machines.

Iyad Rahwan

Azim Shariff is a professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia, where he directs the Centre for Applied Moral Psychology.

Azim Shariff

Jean-François Bonnefon is a CNRS research director, with affiliations to the Toulouse School of Economics, where he chairs the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences; the Toulouse School of Management; the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse of which he is the director; and the Artificial and Natural Intelligence Toulouse Institute where he is chair of moral artificial intelligence.

Jean-François Bonnefon

Arts

How Science Fiction Can Save Us

<a href="https://kccole.com/home.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">KC Cole</a> is the author of eight nonfiction books, most recently Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens: Frank Oppenheimer and the World He Made Up. She is senior senior correspondent at Wired magazine, teaches in the honors program at the University of Washington, and has written for dozens of newspapers and magazines.

KC Cole

Philosophy

A Light in the Dark: Finding the Good in the Natural World

Day’s Edge Productions and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute as part of its “Think Like a Scientist” series for Nautilus.

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Amanda Gefter is a science writer and the author of Trespassing on Einstein’s Lawn.