Terry Sejnowski began his career exploring the mysteries of the cosmos before turning his attention to the mysteries of the human brain. (Think)

AI has been evolving rapidly since its inception. Forward-thinking physicians are evolving with it. (Medicine@Brown)

A New York startup is racing tech’s biggest names to take quantum computing out of the lab and turn it into something that businesses can actually use. (HBS Alumni Bulletin)

How a humble Nobel laureate found a new mission: science diplomacy. (HBPH Magazine)

Harnessing the power of space-age intelligence for the commercial sector. (HBS Alumni Bulletin)

Meet Victor Wilson, a WWII refugee who escaped Nazi-occupied Europe and helped  figure out why astronauts get space-sick. (Rockefeller News)

A geophysicist brings fault lines into sharper focus. (Techer)

Scott Kuo helps researchers see more deeply. (Johns Hopkins Magazine)

A physicist explains how quantum computers work, what makes them special—and how soon we might get our hands on them. (Denison Magazine)

The ultra-cold technique of cryo-electron microscopy has set the world of structural biology on fire. (Seek)

The newest hope for disease control? Hack mosquitoes’ sense of smell. (HBPH Magazine)

New research suggests that maybe, just maybe, the universe could be sphere-shaped. (Johns Hopkins Magazine)

Keeping the peace in the rough-and-tumble world of online gaming. (Techer)

A bit of genetic trickery, borrowed from bacteria, has made gene editing easy. The question now is how to make good use of it. (Seek)

Biologist Emmett Jolly beat the odds to become a scientist. Now he fights monsters. (art|sci)

Jean and Joe Sanger have spent a lifetime together in the lab, revolutionizing cell biology along the way. (Dartmouth Medicine)

Quantum mechanics may hold the key to a hand-held biology laboratory. (The Economist.) [This one’s behind a paywall, so I’ve linked to the audio version, complete with a posh British accent.]

Rising rents and new technology are cramming recording studios into ever-smaller spaces. Welcome to the vest-pocket studio. (Wired)

You probably don’t associate Google with public health. But physician and public health expert Vuong “Von” Nguyen is doing his best to change that. (Rice Magazine)

A former West Philadelphia safety-net hospital is becoming something totally new: a resource hub for achieving health equity and sustaining public health. (Penn Medicine)

A community-based program aims to help older public-housing residents safeguard their vision. (Columbia Medicine)

Arrests and incarceration won’t stop urban gun violence. But community violence prevention might. (HBPH Magazine)

A leading killer of hospitalized patients just may have met its match. (Hopkins Medicine)

The initial coronavirus surge has passed, but the mental health fallout persists. (HBPH Magazine)

Injury prevention expert Sue Baker has spent her career making the world a safer place. (HBPH Magazine)

A simple classroom management strategy pays dividends for a lifetime. (HBPH Magazine)

The latest health impact of a warming planet? Climate gentrification—the pricing of vulnerable populations out of their homes. (HBPH Magazine)

Researchers delve into the expanding opioid epidemic—and try to combat it. (Think)

Janis Luque had all but given up on doctors. Then she found the right one. (NYU Langone News & Views)

Face blindness leads neuroscientists into uncharted nooks of the brain. (Seek)

A biotech startup tries to thwart an emerging health crisis and develop a new model for vaccines. (Penn Law Journal)

Searching for the genetic roots of speech disorders. (art|sci)

Do the dangers of concussion among our nation’s youth outweigh the benefits of contact sports? (At Buffalo)

A newly discovered cognitive impairment scrambles the brain’s ability to perceive letters and numbers. (Arts & Sciences)

Why country music is topping charts and filling arenas. (Berklee Today)

Pianist and management professor Frank Barrett spreads the lessons of jazz far and wide. (Think)

Immersive multimedia events blend music and light to create multisensory magic. (Berklee Today)

Titmouse animation studio flies high. (Visual Arts Journal)

With help from famed architect William Pedersen, a multibillion dollar project is transforming the New York City skyline. (Minnesota Alumni)

Dan Farkas subjects kids’ toys to Borg-like modifications, then makes music with them. (Wired)

Loosening up artists’ residencies. (Visual Arts Journal)

A multimedia show uses an anxiety-inducing score and set to bring audience members face to face with some of America’s classic conspiracies. (The Guardian)

Best-selling author David Nasaw brings serious historical scholarship to the widest audience he can. (Bucknell Magazine)

If talking about music is like painting with architecture, what must painting about music be like? The artist Ralph Gilbert has a few thoughts. (The Milken Archive)

Former U.S. poet laureate Robert Pinsky’s poetry gets a rhythm section. (Tablet)

Computer music moves out of the lab. (The Walrus)

A jazz saxophonist draws on cryptography and number theory for his riffs and rhythms. (Wired)

How American national security became dependent on the commercial space sector. (HBS)

Allan Jean-Baptiste is trying to shake up the hidebound world of venture capital. (Milton Magazine)

How a public research university in the Rocky Mountains became one of the nation’s top incubators for deep-tech startups. (Coloradan Magazine)

Shifting to clean energy means electrifying transportation. KoBold Metals is trying to get us there faster. (AMS Newsletter)

Replacing “you” with “we” can make a message less threatening—and less likely to be censored. (Stanford Business)

Can Sanitation Commissioner Jessica Tisch clean up New York City? (HBS Alumni Bulletin)

People around the world are living, working, and learning longer. Get ready to upgrade your old ideas about longevity. (Stanford Business)

A Texas startup aims to decarbonize industrial chemical processing, and prevent a gigaton of carbon emissions from entering the atmosphere. (Rice Business)

A concerned father uses venture capital to drive advances in autism care. (Denison Magazine)

Marine-energy startups tap the power of tides and waves to fuel a low-carbon future. (HBS Alumni Bulletin)

Forget about electric cars and meatless meat: If you really want to combat climate change, look to risk management and private equity. (Stanford Business)

You’re riding a wage escalator. And your race and gender can make a big difference in the quality of your ride. (W.P. Carey Magazine)

Nadine Dlodlo’s community-centered approach to redeveloping a once-vibrant section of Baltimore offers a blueprint for reviving neighborhoods across the globe. (HBS Alumni Bulletin)

There’s no silver bullet for economic recovery in Appalachia. It’s going to take a whole new ecosystem—which is just what Geoff Marietta has built. (HBS Alumni Bulletin)

Test-riding a pair of fancy-fabric action pants. (Pomona College Magazine)

The potential benefits—and pitfalls—of using AI to support lawyering and financial services. (Minnesota Law)

How the Wisconsin Innocence Project fights for the wrongfully convicted. (Gargoyle)

As technology reshapes markets, antitrust gains a competitive edge in the classroom. (Northeastern Law)

The path from software developer to lawyer for rural entrepreneurs may not seem like an obvious one. But for this law professor, it all makes sense. (Gargoyle)

Defense attorneys appealing a murder conviction enlisted the expertise of statisticians to determine whether the field of firearm forensics is grounded in solid science. The answer? Not even close. (HBPH Magazine)

Libertarian legal scholar Jonathan Adler pursues principle over politics. (Think)

Erin Barbato, director of the Immigrant Justice Clinic (IJC) at the University of Wisconsin Law School, has a knot in the pit of her stomach. (Gargoyle)

Dean Gillispie has spent 20 years in prison for kidnapping and rape. Former Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro has made it his job to free him. (Denison Magazine)

After witnessing terrible wrongs as a medical student, Dr. Karen Benker devoted her career to the fight for medical justice. (Pomona College Magazine)

Confronting a man involved in the murder of her own parents turned Noreen Deiss into an advocate for restorative justice. (Gargoyle)

In which the author’s attempt to discover traces of Spain’s medieval Jewish community does not go as planned. (Kveller)

If you want to see whales, you needn’t bother chasing after them in a boat. Just pitch a tent by the St. Lawrence River and wait for them to come to you. (The Montreal Gazette)

Calm waters, green monkeys, and giant caves: Barbados has something for everyone, no matter how young. (The Boston Globe)

Istanbul was once a center of Sephardic Jewish life and music. But that energy has moved elsewhere. (The Forward)

Though only a tiny fraction of what it was in the 18th century, Barbados’s Jewish community—and its 1750 synagogue—still stand proud. (Tablet)

Bingeing on Jewish delicacies in my hometown. (The Forward)

For resort chic on a budget, pitch a tent and (sort of) rough it. (The New York Times)

Growing up is hard to do. (Niv)

A recent visit to a Muslim country raised unwelcome questions—and unnecessary fears. (Kveller)

When I was invited to drum in Ghana, I gladly accepted. Then something went wrong. (Nautilus)

A tale of love and dysentery. (Skive)

Kol Nidre gets me every time. (Tablet)

Though you’d never guess it by looking at me, I was once an African drummer. (The Forward)

Superficial? Judgmental? Who, me? (Fresh Yarn)