Deborah Jin engineered new quantum states of matter — twice
According to colleague Kathryn J. Levin, Jin "probably would have gotten the Nobel"
The gut microbiome can hit fast forward on Alzheimer's disease progression
Male — but not female — mice had reduced amyloid beta plaques in the brain after antibiotic treatment
Maria Goeppert Mayer discovered the magic numbers at the center of atoms
She didn't have a paid professorship until three years before her Nobel prize
What fish fins can teach us about how humans move
Studying fins could have surprising applications for medicine, engineering, and robotics