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Bringing you inspiring stories about Modern Giants of Fundamental Sciences who are pushing humanity's quest for knowledge forward. We introduce men and women behind some of the biggest scientific breakthroughs of our time, and explain the significance of their work in everyday language. This is your gateway to understand who are some of the silent scientists who are pushing science forward, what makes geniuses who they are

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  1. Meet Fastest Rising Young Stars of Physics

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    Meet Fastest Rising Young Stars of Physics

    At just nine years old, Netta Engelhardt moved to a new country and picked up a book that would define her life: Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time. While most found it a challenging read, she saw it as a map to a mystery that had stumped the world’s greatest physicists for 45 years. In this episode of Mavericks of Science, we explore the journey of Netta Engelhardt, the MIT physicist who—at age 25—developed the formula that finally began to resolve Hawking’s most famous paradox. It is a story of black holes, "quantum smoke and ash," and a V-shaped graph that changed our understanding of reality.

    18 min
  2. Shimon Sakaguchi: Winner Nobel 2025 in Medicine

    FEB 10

    Shimon Sakaguchi: Winner Nobel 2025 in Medicine

    In this episode of Mavericks of Science, we explore the story of Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi, the 2025 Nobel Prize winner, who resurrected a "dead" field of science to discover the immune system’s secret police. Imagine your immune system as a powerful, elite army trained to destroy invaders. But what happens when that army loses its way and begins attacking the very body it’s sworn to protect? For decades, science couldn't explain how this "friendly fire", the root of autoimmune diseases, like Type 1 diabetes and multiple sclerosis, was kept in check. It’s a tale of a decade-long hunt for a microscopic needle in a haystack and a cross-continental puzzle that changed medicine forever.

    15 min
  3. Second Woman ever to win Nobel of Math

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    Second Woman ever to win Nobel of Math

    In this episode of Mavericks Science of, we dive into the extraordinary story of Maryna Viazovska, the Ukrainian mathematician who cracked the code of "perfect packing" in higher dimensions. Have you ever looked at a stack of oranges at the grocery store and wondered if there was a better way to pack them? While a greengrocer might give you a funny look, this deceptively simple question has stumped the world’s greatest mathematical minds for over four centuries. From her early days in Kyiv to her historic rise as only the second woman to ever win the prestigious Fields Medal, Viazovska’s journey is one of resilience, elegance, and sheer brilliance.Join us as we explore how uncovering hidden structures in dimensions beyond our imagination is shaping the future of technology and our understanding of space-time itself.

    13 min
  4. Man who solved a Century Old Problem

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    Man who solved a Century Old Problem

    Meet Hugo Duminil-Copin, the 2022 Fields Medalist whose groundbreaking work uncovered the precise rules that govern phase transitions in complex systems. What connects a melting ice cube, a spreading wildfire, a magnetic switch, and the sudden crash of a financial market? At first glance, they appear random, unpredictable bursts of change. But beneath the chaos lies a world of structure and hidden laws. In this video, we follow Hugo’s journey from a sports-loving teenager in suburban France to a world-renowned figure in mathematics. Initially interested in handball more than homework, Hugo didn’t shine as a prodigy early on. He failed to qualify for the International Mathematical Olympiad. But through persistence, passion, and curiosity, he found his path into the deep, abstract world of probability and statistical physics.Duminil-Copin’s work tackles some of the most fundamental puzzles in physics and mathematics: how systems transition from one state to another. His research on percolation theory, the Ising model, and the Potts model reveals how small, local interactions give rise to dramatic global behavior. Think of how a virus spreads in a population, how a magnet becomes polarized, or how water freezes—his mathematics shows us exactly when and why these transformations occur. One of his major achievements was proving how magnetic materials transition in three and four dimensions—problems that had resisted mathematical proof for over half a century. His work not only answered theoretical questions but opened the door to new applications in epidemiology, machine learning, quantum computing, and financial risk modeling. Anywhere uncertainty rules, Duminil-Copin’s ideas are beginning to play a role.

    11 min
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