Meet Valerie Thomas, the inventor and scientist who launched the longest-running satellite program imaging Earth’s surface
During Thomas's three-decade career at NASA, she connected scientists with the data they need to understand our planet
Meet Nancy Grace Roman, the "mother" of the Hubble Space Telescope
She discovered fundamental truths about stars and galaxies, and also shaped NASA into what we know it as today
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
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
Meet Kathleen Lonsdale, the physicist and prison reformer who cracked benzene's code
Lonsdale assembled her own X-ray crystallography laboratory from scratch to solve a century-old mystery
Meet Sophie Germain, the amateur mathematician who worked on number theory's toughest problem
Germain, or "Monsieur LeBlanc" to her professors, took a bold and creative approach to life and math
Women scientists are bearing the brunt of COVID-19's impacts
International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2021 marks countless setbacks for the science world
Meet Virginia Apgar, the unlikely anesthesiologist who saved newborn babies
Apgar's simple, standardized score helped decrease the startlingly high infant mortality rate
A power list of the LatinX scientists who are changing the world
In celebration of LatinX Heritage Month, these are LatinX scientists shaping policy and research worldwide
A slime mold changes its mind: an interview with slime mold scientist Audrey Dussutour
How do slime molds and ants make decisions without a central brain?
Neuroscientist seeks love molecule: a conversation with Bianca Jones Marlin
The Columbia scientist on the neuroscience of motherhood and how social justice and science intersect
How to become a galaxy hunter: an interview with Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil
The University of Chicago astronomer talks about getting a galaxy named after herself and fighting for telescope time
How did birds become birds? An interview with Jingmai O'Connor
The paleontologist and soon-to-be curator at the Field Museum on excavations, being a party animal, and imposter syndrome
Volcano diplomacy and the future of eruption predictions: the life of a volcanologist
NASA petrologist Kayla Iacovino on her life studying volcanoes and being a Star Trek fanatic
Meet Merit-Ptah, the ancient Egyptian doctor who didn't exist
Though created by accident, her story fit neatly with burgeoning 20th century feminism
Meet Lynnae Quick, NASA's hunter of space cryomagma
Only the fifth African American woman with a planetary sciences PhD, she's on the team hoping to first see Europa's geysers
Seventy-five percent of STEM graduate students do not consistently feel like they belong in graduate school
Most students feel negatively or neutral about whether their professors understand the hardships they face
It's lonely being a Black scientist
I have been weighed down by tragedy, passed over, and exploited
Meet Lady Mary Montagu, who brought smallpox inoculation to England
This poet and essayist likely saved many lives from this deadly, disfiguring disease
Meet Hertha Ayrton, the mathematician who cleared WW1 trenches of poisonous gas
Ayrton was the first woman to recieve the Hughes Medal for outstanding research in the field of energy, but still the Royal Society refused her membership