women in science

Jane Goodall with a young chimpanzee. Photo source: nationalgeographic.comFrom the Writers AlmanacToday is the birthday of Dr. Jane Goodall (books by this…

On the night of February 3, 1995, the dark skies around Kennedy Space Center in Florida light up as the space shuttle Discovery lifted off on its 20th…

From PBSNEWSHOUR. Women in the U.S. receive less than 20 percent of Bachelor's degrees in computer science, engineering and physics. Eileen Pollack, one…

NOVA and National Geographic present exclusive access to a unique discovery of ancient remains. Located in an almost inaccessible chamber deep in a South…

(A composite skeleton of H. naledi is surrounded by some of the hundreds of other fossil elements recovered from the Dinaledi Chamber in the Rising Star…