Women in Science
Apps Can Help You Get Pregnant. But Should You Use Them as a Contraceptive?
An increasing number of women are relying on apps to track their menstrual cycles. Now, there's even an app approved as birth control.
Chemist Hazel Bishop's Lipstick Wars
Bishop said her advantage in coming up with cosmetics was that, unlike male chemists, she actually used them
The Lady Anatomist Who Brought Dead Bodies to Light
Anna Morandi was the brains and the skilled hand of an unusual husband-wife partnership
When Girls Studied Planets and the Skies Had No Limits
Maria Mitchell, America's first female astronomer, flourished at a time when both sexes “swept the sky”
Remembering the Brilliant Maryam Mirzakhani, the Only Woman to Win a Fields Medal
The Stanford professor investigated the mathematics of curved surfaces, writing many groundbreaking papers
Three Horrifying Pre-FDA Cosmetics
From mercury-loaded face cream to mascara that left you blind
Meet the Rogue Women Astronauts of the 1960s Who Never Flew
But they passed the same tests the male astronauts did—and, yes, in high heels
The Unheralded Contributions of Klara Dan von Neumann
Despite having no formal mathematical training, she was a key figure in creating the computer that would later launch modern weather prediction
Three Very Modern Uses For A Nineteenth-Century Text Generator
Andrey Markov was trying to understand poems with math when he created a whole new field of probability studies
When Women Crowdfunded Radium For Marie Curie
The element was hard to get and extremely expensive but essential for Curie's cancer research
Mice With 3D-Printed Ovaries Successfully Give Birth
The gelatin-scaffold ovary could one day help restore endocrine function in young cancer patients and treat infertility
The Witch of Agnesi
A mistranslation led to the unusual name of this mathematical concept
The Woman Who Stood Between America and a Generation of 'Thalidomide Babies'
How the United States escaped a national tragedy in the 1960s
Astronaut Peggy Whitson Breaks NASA Record for Most Days in Space
She has spent 534 cumulative days (and counting) in orbit
Fashion Made From Cow Poo Wins Innovation Award
Mestic looks to manure to produce bioplastic, paper and fashion-forward textiles
This Feminist Psychologist-Turned-Rock-Star Led a Full Life of Resistance
Naomi Weisstein fought against the idea of women as objects in both the fields of psychology and rock 'n roll
Mathematician Emmy Noether Should Be Your Hero
She revolutionized mathematics, and then was forgotten because she was a woman
These Bold Illustrations Celebrate the Incredible Contributions of Women in Science
A designer's touch brings the achievements and faces of female pioneers to a wider audience
Marianne North's Obsession with the Carnivorous Pitcher Plant
Painter Marianne North's obsession with local Borneo vegetation led her to one of the most unusual and rare plants in the world
The 17th-Century Lady Astronomer Who Took Measure of the Stars
Astronomer Maria Cunitz might not be such an anomaly, were other women given the same educational opportunities
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