Science & Nature
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Belle Benchley and the Creation of the Modern Zoo (Women in Science 34)
Think back to your last zoo trip. More likely than not, most of the larger animals were contained in open…
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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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Anna Atkins: Bontanist, Photographer, Pioneer
Today’s Google Doodle celebrates the 216th birthday of Anna Atkins, English botanist and photographer. While that may not sound remarkable…
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Making Continents Move: The Ocean Cartography of Marie Tharp (Women in Science 31)
If you’re a scientist, and you’ve lived long enough, there’s a good chance that you’ll see your life’s work overwritten…
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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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Our Neighbor Australopithecus: The Anthropology of Mary Leakey
The 1960s and early 1970s were the Rock Star era of anthropology, when each year seemed to bring a stunning…
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Summing the Cosmos: Henrietta Swan Leavitt and The Saga of the Cepheid Stars (Women in Science 22)
Astronomy is the sifting science. Its practitioners rake the sky, star by star, collecting and cataloguing, and when they are…
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