Chemistry
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Lymph, There It Is: Florence Sabin, Pioneer Woman of Medical Research (Women in Science 39)
For women in science, posterity has three fates in store. Some, like Marie Curie or Rosalyn Yalow, are recognized in…
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#SciArt Project for May: The Flame Test
My SciArt Patreon supported project for the month of May is complete! This month’s science inspired project is a series of…
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Gerty Radnitz Cori: Glycogen to Glucose, and Back Again (Women in Science 37)
For a science teacher, perhaps the most dreaded question is “What Is Energy?” Sure, we have a standard answer –…
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The stars in our cells
A relatively recent study showed that transcription factors tend to hang out in specific areas of the nucleus, clustering like…
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The Illustrated Women In Science: Year One!
Thrill to the jungle-crawling entomology of Maria Merian, cheer at the multi-dimensional mathematics of Maryam Mirzakhani, weep at the tragic…
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Of Artificial Radiation and Natural Genius: The Chemistry of Irène Joliot-Curie (Women In Science 29)
Radioactivity is a great thing. Terrible, but great. The medical applications of radioactively tagged molecules, as Rosalyn Yalow proved,…
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Queen of Carbon: The Ongoing Materials Science Legacy Of Mildred Dresselhaus (Women In Science 27)
Carbon. Its astounding versatility is matched only by our total and historic complacency in the face of its wonders.…
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The Secret Life of Hormones: Rosalyn Yalow and the Discovery of Radioimmunoassaying
There’s an unsung immensity in the craft of Measuring Things Better. Within our twisting cleverness for developing better and better…
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