Scott Duke Kominers, Columnist

Teen Science Whizzes Cheer Up Our Grownup One

Maybe this year's Regeneron talent search winners can discover a cure for pessimism.

Winners.

Photographer: Chris Ayers/Society for Science & the Public

Forty of the brightest scientific minds in America came together in Washington this week. They provided glimpses of a world with cheaper solar cells and without antibiotic-resistant bacteria. They provided new understandings of rare diseases and solved parts of problems that have vexed mathematicians for years.

They’re all in high school.