Ice, Ice Lady: The Seven Expeditions Of Arctic Explorer Louise Arner Boyd
If the story of Louise Arner Boyd (1887-1972) teaches us anything, it is that how you start a journey need not determine how you end it. Her first expedition ...
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Love And Butterflies: The Adventures Of Victorian Lepidopterist Margaret Fountaine
For a young English woman of respectable lineage, the 19th century offered a clear, well delineated path from birth to death, full of tradition and routine and...
Casualty Of Genius: The Sacrifice Of Mileva Maric-Einstein
"I need my wife. She resolves all of my mathematical problems." – Albert EinsteinContent Note: By the end of this article, you are not going to like Albert...
Let It STEM, Let It STEM, Let It STEM: A Holiday Guide To 2019’s Great Women In Science Books
2019 has been an incredible year for books about the history of women in STEM. A short two decades ago, it would have been riches beyond telling to have ...
Documentary Spotlights Courageous Women In Aviation And Determined Girls Pursuing The Field
"Just watch, all of you men. I'll show you what a woman can do. . . . I'll go across the country, I'll race to the Moon. . . . I'll never look back." - Edna Ga...
From Wartime Radar To W-Bosons: The Experimental Physics Of Joan Freeman
In 1983, one of the great pillars of modern physics was cemented in place when CERN announced the discovery of a group of particles that stood at the center of...
14-Year-Old Inventor, Kara Fan, Named ‘America’s Top Young Scientist’ For Her Nano-Silver Liquid Bandage
14-year-old Kara Fan was just named the winner of the 2019 3M Young Scientist Challenge, an annual innovation competition hosted in partnership with Discovery ...
The Professor And The Frogs: The Ecology And Herpetology Of Margaret Stewart
Amphibians today are experiencing a population crisis of unprecedented scale. Frogs are going extinct, according to the most conservative estimates, at t...
Sorry, But Male Geniuses Are Replaceable
Science is a process, and exaggerating a single person’s contributions prohibits progress — especially when that person derails women’s careers.By Sarah Ol...