Scientists to Watch 2016

Science & Society

The SN 10: Meet the scientists making the next big discoveries

Life

Aneil Agrawal unites math and mess

Health & Medicine

Phil Baran finds simple recipes for complex molecules

Neuroscience

Jessica Cantlon seeks the origins of numerical thinking

Materials Science

Qian Chen makes matter come alive

Humans

Lawrence David’s gut check gets personal

Astronomy

Anna Frebel digs a young universe

Neuroscience

Jeremy Freeman seeks to simplify complex brain science

Computing

Shayan Oveis Gharan finds the shortest route to success

Oceans

Melissa Omand’s clever tech follows the fate of ocean carbon

Physics

Tenio Popmintchev fits X-ray laser on a tabletop