“Planet Earth Report” provides descriptive links to headline news by leading science journalists about the extraordinary discoveries, technology, people, and events changing our knowledge of Planet Earth and the future of the human species. A Prodigy Who Cracked Open the Cosmos, reports Claudia Dreifus for Quanta. –Frank Wilczek, who discovered the basic theory of the strong force — the final pillar of the Standard Model of particle physics, has been at the forefront of theoretical physics for the past 50 years. He talks about winning the Nobel Prize for work he did as a student, his solution to the dark matter problem, and the God of a scientist.