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Blue Babies with Crossword Puzzle Hearts: The Pediatric Cardiology of Helen Taussig. (Women in Science 56)
It’s sometime in the 1930s, and you’re walking into a ward full of crouching children with blue-tinted lips. Something is…
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Primal Screams: Sophie Germain’s Mathematical Labors (Women in Science 55)
It’s a well known fact of humanity that the chances of a group of people electing to do something decent…
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The Strangers Within: Lynn Margulis and the Rebirth of Endosymbiosis (Women in Science 54).
In terms of cell count, ninety percent of you isn’t you at all. Bacteria, though by mass they only…
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The Queen of Wind-Blown Sediments: Kelly Deuerling’s Aeolian Geochemistry (Women in Science 53)
Life is an ion-hungry enterprise. Sure, carbs, proteins, and fatty acids get most of the press, but without a steady…
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8 Comets, 2500 Nebulae: Caroline Herschel’s Century of Astronomy
In 2092, if there are still humans on our planet to look and to see, a comet will appear in…
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