Humans of physics

Enormous scientific collaborations are made up of hundreds upon thousands of individuals, each with their own story. Denyz Melchor, an undergraduate studying physics at California State University, Fullerton, traveled to Lake Geneva in Wisconsin last spring to present her research on primordial black holes. It was her first collaboration meeting as a member of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO. At the meeting, she was surprised to find herself also talking about he...