CNN reported that Kristoff Misquitta won the 2020 Genes in Space contest for work to understand how the liver functions in space. “Hopefully we can use this as a platform to someday develop more advanced and different types of medications,” he said.

Crossing disciplines and adding fresh eyes to nuclear engineering, Limiao Zhang sees surprising connections between the behavior of cars and bubbles.

Research shows that most people care about climate change. The hard part is getting them to fight it. Why? Even as temperatures climb and natural disasters rage, John Sterman says, the phenomenon seems overwhelmingly complex, distant, and abstract.

Christopher Magee and others have developed a gauge of the pace of innovation: a search engine that allows users to “answer in a fraction of a second the question of how quickly any given technology is advancing,” the Wall Street Journal reported.

Themistoklis Sapsis uses analytical and computational methods to predict uncertain, extreme dynamics — such as ocean waves, or instability inside gas turbines. His goal is to help design robust and safe structures for a broad range of conditions.

Mining previously inaccessible, declassified archives and vast public databases, Emilia Simison is creating a new picture of how autocratic regimes function — ranging from Francisco Franco’s Spain to more recent dictatorships in Brazil and Argentina.