Meet Evelyn Boyd Granville, the mathematician who mass produced computers and shot Apollo into space
One of the first Black women to earn a PhD in math, she worked on seemingly every major math project of the 20th century
Neandertals don't deserve their bad, dim-witted reputation
Our hominin ancestor had bigger brains and probably went extinct with climate change. Who are we to judge?
Orangutans and bonobos at the San Diego Zoo have been vaccinated for COVID-19
The apes were given an experimental vaccine originally developed for dogs and cats
Meet Jane Colden, the 18th century botanist snubbed by Linnaeus
A barrier-breaking scientist with no formal training, she has been repeatedly left out of science history
Monkeys and apes in Africa and Asia are also susceptible to SARS-CoV-2
New research compared the configurations of the ACE2 protein in 29 non-human primates
Island- and mainland-dwelling gibbons have differently shaped jaws
These findings could help scientists classify fossil primates