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Ellen Ochoa Had More to Do Than Make History
The astronaut’s legacy lives in research, robotic arms and the judgment to stop a launch.
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A life is more than a headline.
Latino thinkers, artists, scientists and people whose work changes what comes next. The achievements, decisions and questions behind the familiar names—and the lives worth knowing better.
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Franklin Chang-Díaz’s Rocket Has to Pass the Endurance Test
The long development of VASIMR shows the gap between a compelling propulsion principle and flight-ready hardware.
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Adriana Ocampo Followed a Circle of Sinkholes
Remote imagery, geophysical data, and field sites show how the Chicxulub case was assembled by teams over time.
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A Login Puzzle Became Luis von Ahn’s Book Scanner
reCAPTCHA converted a compulsory security task into transcription, exposing both the ingenuity and labor politics of the design.
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The Moving Dot María Teresa Ruiz Did Not Set Out to Find
KELU-1 shows discovery as a change in classification during a systematic search for other faint objects.
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A Brain-Controlled Arm Needs to Feel Something Back
Nicolelis and colleagues’ feedback experiments place sensation, training, and collaboration beside the visible act of movement.
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José Quiñonez Put a Familiar Loan on the Credit Record
Lending Circles makes visible a community lending practice that conventional credit files had ignored.
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