Meet Gerty Cori, the Nobel-winning biochemist who uncovered how the body stores and consumes sugars
Cori's work determined glycogen storage "disease" had several subtypes, each with a unique molecular cause
An accidental experiment discovered new cells in cat brains and led to a Nobel Prize
Cats looking at dots inside a tent revealed the different eye cells that process movement and light
The virtual 2020 Ig Nobel ceremony recognized crocodiles inhaling helium, poop knives, and arachnophobic entomologists
Winning research covered science that "makes people laugh, then think"
Meet Chien-Shiung Wu, the nuclear physicist who developed revolutionary experiments
She changed how we understand fundamental laws that move both quarks and planets
Meet Nobel Prize winner Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, who let doctors see into your blood
Her radioimmunoassay technique enabled scientists to measure hundreds of trace biological substances for the first time
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Meet Dorothy Hodgkin, the biochemist who pieced together penicillin, insulin, and vitamin B12
Her work helped save millions of lives from infection, diabetes, and anemia
Maria Goeppert Mayer discovered the magic numbers at the center of atoms
She didn't have a paid professorship until three years before her Nobel prize
Meet Lise Meitner, the physicist who discovered how to split an atom
Her discovery of nuclear fission led the way to nuclear power—and the Cold War
Meet Barbara McClintock, who used corn to decipher 'jumping genes'
Through meticulous crossbreeding, she showed that DNA is far more complicated than scientists originally thought
Meet Jocelyn Bell Burnell, the astrophysicist who first noticed pulsars
Through sheer tenacity she has forged a career in a male-dominated field
Five facts about Rita Levi-Montalcini, who figured out how neurons grow
She bested anti-Semitism and sexism to have a Nobel-winning career
Scientists are recruiting live bacteria to fight deadly infections
A study in rural India is raising hopes for a future without antibiotics
The science Nobel Prizes are sexist, racist, and misleading. Let's rethink them
We should be rewarding discoveries, not individuals
Five facts about Linda Buck, olfactory pioneer
The Nobel Prize-winning biologist revolutionized how we think about our noses
Meet Chien-Shiung Wu, the "Queen of Nuclear Research" and destroyer of natural laws
Chien-Shiung Wu conducted some of the most elegant particle physics experiments of her time