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She’s also teaching the cloud to forget personal information.

For the 13th year, Popular Science honors the brightest young minds reshaping science, engineering, and the world.

As pathogens mutate rapidly around us, this evolutionary biologist plans to keep humans one step ahead.

Fontaine, an optical engineer at Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, has devised a clever way to avoid a data bottleneck.

Rendering complex objects realistically requires a whole new kind of geometry

Using metal chips and light, clinicians will be able to detect viruses in even rural medical clinics

His manipulation of atoms chilled to near-absolute zero could help create high-temperature superconductors

He develops new ways to get the most information with the least effort