The first astronaut class to include women candidates, announced in 1978 and self-dubbed the TFNG, or Thirty-Five New Guys, brought six women into the variousl...
In 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell became the first American woman to earn a Medical Degree, and within half a century seven thousand American women had followed her...
On February 22, 2017, our Women In Science column featured a profile of mathematician Dr. Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman and first Iranian to win a prestig...
It is the early 1870s and we are heading into the mining town of Gornyi Zerentui, located in the mountainous Transbaikal region on the distant Siberian fringe ...
We are all mutants, our genes loaded with the steadily acquired variations of three billion years that gradually changed a collection of over-achieving thermop...
The last decade of Countess Melitta von Stauffenberg's life was ringed by impossible decisions, choices that you and I will never experience outside of a theor...
In this week's episode of our Women In Science Puppet Theater video series (click image above to watch), kids get to know cosmetic chemist, Hazel Bishop (1906-...
There is a theory that curiosity originates in leisure, that only after one has taken care of the big important things like food and shelter can one spare the ...
Generally, our experience of a particular medicine is as a great faceless thing the name of which we don't know until we desperately need it, and the creation ...