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    “My dream is that I will drive myself out of business as a scientist and will get computers to do science by themselves”
    Professor Ilya Nemenman on machine learning, the laws of biology, and the quest for a 'robot-scientist'
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    “In principle, one can make an ideal conducting channel along a designed path by just scratching the surface”
    Physicist Markus Morgenstern on weak topological insulators, 2D materials, and spin pumping
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    Xingjie Ni: “We made a device that has total control over the amplitude and the phase of the light”
    Electrical engineer Xingjie Ni on the 'invisibility cloak', metasurfaces, and nanoantennas that can control light
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    Heon Sang Lee: “The e-skin ​is sensitive enough to detect one hair strand and acoustic sounds”
    Chemical engineer Heon Sang Lee on nanocomposites, e-skins, and ferroelectricity
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    “It is the only technology that can generate electricity directly from the breakdown of waste that we throw in the bin”
    Biotechnologist Ioannis Ieropoulos on microbial fuel cells, waste treatment, and the ‘Pee-Power’ urinal
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    Federico Capasso: “You can design the optical properties of surfaces, so you can design new phenomena”
    Harvard professor Frederico Capasso on flat lenses, Cherenkov effect, and inverse method
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    What is the definition of a robot?
    Robotics expert Mel Siegel on the features that a machine must have to be called a robot, previous studies, and the future of the field
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    “Only a very few groups of early mammals survived the K-T extinction and evolved into today’s species”
    Paleonthologist Zhonghe Zhou on the diversity of extraordinary animals in the Jurassic Period
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    James Watson: “I believe that the most important people now are the chemists, not the DNA people”
    One of the discoverers of the structure of DNA on cancer, biochemistry and personalized medicines
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    «Any area of economic life is ripe for mechanism design theory»
    Interview with 2007 Nobel laureate in Economics Eric Maskin on game theory subdiscipline
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