Few lawyers have shaped constitutional law like @neal_katyal. One of the nation’s leading Supreme Court advocates, he has spent his career arguing cases that influence how American government functions and where its limits lie. I made this portrait as part of my New Heroes project. Read more:

.@EricTopol has spent his career asking a simple question: Why does medicine wait for people to become sick? His work in genomics, digital health, and precision medicine has helped shift healthcare from reacting to disease toward preventing it. @theNASEM @scrippsresearch

Chemistry laureate Brian Kobilka learnt about teamwork and management from his father at a early age: "My first job was slicing and packaging bread for sale at local supermarkets. Working at the bakery gave me the opportunity to see my father in action. The bakery was operated by my grandfather and great uncle before World War II. When my father returned from service in the army he took over the management and started to expand the bakery from a simple storefront business to one that supplied fresh baked goods to local supermarkets, restaurants and schools. The bakery was a relatively complex small business that prospered by producing a large variety of excellent baked goods including breads, pastries, cakes and candy. To make all of this work, my father had to be able do every job in the bakery, because when someone called in sick he had to be able to fill in: bake bread, pastries and donuts, decorate cakes, drive the delivery truck. He also did all of the purchasing, planned the production and managed accounting, payroll and advertising. I believe his success was due to his versatility, work ethic, good humour and ability to motivate people to do their best. While I have a very different occupation, I believe that I learned a lot from my father that has helped me manage a research group." Read more from his biography:

Today renowned evolutionary biologist @NeilShubin officially takes office as NAS President. "I am so grateful & excited for the opportunity to lead the Academy at a time when the pace of scientific discovery is accelerating faster than ever."

Molecular imaging pioneer Eva Nogales awarded the 2026 Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science I am truly honored to receive this prize and incredibly grateful to have worked with so many talented lab members over the years.🙏👩‍🎓🧑‍💼

"When my husband died, because he was so famous and known for not being a believer, many people would come up to me-it still sometimes happens-and ask me if Carl changed at the end and converted to a belief in an afterlife. They also frequently ask me if I think I will see him again. Carl faced his death with unflagging courage and never sought refuge in illusions. The tragedy was that we knew we would never see each other again. I don't ever expect to be reunited with Carl. But, the great thing is that when we were together, for nearly twenty years, we lived with a vivid appreciation of how brief and precious life is. We never trivialized the meaning of death by pretending it was anything other than a final parting. Every single moment that we were alive and we were together was miraculous-not miraculous in the sense of inexplicable or supernatural. We knew we were beneficiaries of chance. . . . That pure chance could be so generous and so kind. . . . That we could find each other, as Carl wrote so beautifully in Cosmos, you know, in the vastness of space and the immensity of time. . . . That we could be together for twenty years. That is something which sustains me and it’s much more meaningful. . . . The way he treated me and the way I treated him, the way we took care of each other and our family, while he lived. That is so much more important than the idea I will see him someday. I don't think I'll ever see Carl again. But I saw him. We saw each other. We found each other in the cosmos, and that was wonderful.” ― @AnnDruyan @carlsagandotcom

Renowned UChicago scientist Neil Shubin will become president of the National Academy of Sciences on July 1. In this Q&A, he discussed his goals and concerns in this "hugely consequential moment for American science." Your Sunday Read:

“The soul is neither born, nor does it ever die.”- Bhagavad Gita. A beautiful day for @om. Pure light. Wind off the Pacific, friends gathered in a circle, flowers carried out to sea. Exactly the kind of day he would have wanted to photograph.

“The future is not something to be predicted. It’s something to be built.” — @FutureJurvetson Long before reusable rockets transformed spaceflight, Steve Jurvetson was one of SpaceX’s earliest major investors. His office is packed with meteorites, artifacts, and prototypes, a reminder that every breakthrough begins as an idea most people dismiss.