Physicist Katrina Miller, SM’18, PhD’23, revived her childhood love of writing to forge a career in science journalism.

Astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910–95) illuminated stellar evolution.

Fred Niell, AB’99, helped build a nuclear reactor in a dorm room. Did he ever make anything else?

How Margaret Gardel accidentally became a biophysicist.

Physicist David McCowan, SM’08, PhD’14, explains food science to lay readers in the Takeout.

Science and emotion in A Wrinkle in Time.

A note from the dean of the Physical Sciences Division.

Jonathan Simon blurs the line between matter and light.

Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves a century ago. Daniel Holz was part of the team of scientists that finally found them last fall.