Popular Science has chosen “10 Young Geniuses Shaking Up Science Today,” and not surprisingly, four of them come from New England. Take that, Rest of the Country.

Among the 10:

• Yale professor Marla Geha, who has discovered 14 galaxies and performs research on dark matter.
• Harvard/Beth Israel Deaconess researcher John Rinn, who discovered large intervening non-coding (LINC) RNA as a Yale grad student, and has proven their importance in the human cell.
• MIT Whitehead Institute researcher Kate Rubins, who, in addition to working on viruses like smallpox and monkeypox, is part of NASA’s first training class for the replacement for the space shuttle, the Orion.
• MIT nanotechnology researcher Michael Strano, who’s using graphene particles for solar energy applications, and carbon nanotubes to detect cancer.

PopSci also helpfully notes that, John Cusack notwithstanding, the planet Nibiru will not collide with Earth, wiping out all life, in two years.