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  Rethinking High-School Science Fairs

  Leah Libresco Sargeant

  America’s earliest science fairs gave students the chance to do independent research. Today, they’re a competitive gloss to glorified internships. It’s time for a new format.

• Justified True Belief

  Clara Collier
• The Fight For Slow And Boring Research

  Jolie Gan

  As federal research funding shrinks, scientists are looking to other sources of support. Can they learn to sell their work without selling out?

• AI After Drug Development

  Abhishaike Mahajan

  Coming up with drug candidates isn’t the bottleneck on finding new treatments. Can AI help with the things that are?

• Seeing Like a Sedan

  Andrew Miller

  Waymos and Cybercabs see the world through very different sensors. Which technology wins out will determine the future of self-driving vehicles.

Coming Soon

• A Brief History of the History of Science

  Matthew Jordan

• Factory Logic

  Afra Wang

• Merchants of Certainty

  Alex Trembath

• Language Birth

  Karson Elmgren

• The Institute Behind Taiwan’s Chip Dominance

  Karthik Tadepalli

• The Sweet Lesson of Neuroscience

  Adam Marblestone