Raj Apte, a pioneering innovator, boasts 85+ patents and has driven advancements in various fields, from digital X-rays to renewable energy. At Alphabet’s X, he continues his groundbreaking work, contributing to technologies like thermal energy storage, ultrasonic biometrics, printed electronics, digital X-ray sensors, and micromachined diffractive displays.

As an undergrad, Alyce Lysaght struggled to find stories about Māori engineers. She decided to change that, launching a podcast that has become a destination for students and professionals alike

Emma Watts and Sonya Pemberton share the story behind Last Chance To Save a Life – a documentary highlighting one of our best chances in the fight against superbugs.

Since 1969, San Francisco’s Exploratorium has been at the fore of interactive and informal science learning. Over the past 20 years, Dr Anne Richardson has contributed to the centre’s innovative approach, fusing science and art to spark curiosity and wonder in its visitors.

For the past decade, Paul Propster has been revolutionising the way space scientists tell – and sell – their stories at NASA’s iconic Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He tells The Brilliant why he made good storytelling a priory at the world’s largest space agency.

Hitting a low point in an unfulfilling career spurred Amanda Obidike to discover the world of STEM. The award-winning entrepreneur is now drawing on her experience to improve STEM education in Nigeria.

The first Indian film director to win an Academy Award, Kartiki Gonsalves discusses the importance of positive stories.

Zimbabwean entrepreneur, Knowledge Chikundi, changed the course of his life, as well as the lives of hundreds of thousands of young Africans.

Professor Michael E Mann reflects on the legacy of Carl Sagan. “It was Sagan who first inspired my aspiration to pursue a career in science back in the early 1980s as I grew up watching his PBS series, Cosmos. It exposed me and others of my generation to the wonders and grandeur of science and the mysteries of our Universe that science could help solve.”