Spotlight on Women in Science

We talk to Cristina Gonzalez, a physician at New York University, who runs a lab that uses simulations to help medical professionals check their implicit bias at the exam room door.

Marie Curie is well known for her chemistry achievements but less so for helping other women succeed in science

Linguist and sociophonetician Nicole Holliday analyzes the language used by candidates in the recent presidential and vice presidential debates

Three scientists are honored for developing a class of blockbuster weight-loss drugs. Is a Nobel prize on the way?

Starting with her rejection of an FDA application for thalidomide in 1960, physician and pharmacist Frances Oldham Kelsey took a stand against the now infamous drug

Lynn Conway, a trans woman and advocate for LGBTQ rights, was underappreciated and often underrecognized for her work in chip design

Historian and ecologist Laura J. Martin rediscovers the female scientists who established ecological restoration in her book Wild by Design

Ada Lovelace’s wisdom about the first general-purpose computer can be found buried in the appendix of another paper

Was a teenager named Alessandra Giliani the Western world’s first female anatomist? In 14th-century Italy, women were strictly barred from medical research. One flouted that rule—disguised as a man.

In 1949 physicist Chien-Shiung Wu devised an experiment that documented evidence of entanglement. Her findings have been hidden in plain sight for more than 70 years

Yvonne Y. Clark, known as Y.Y. throughout her career, had a lifetime of groundbreaking achievements as a Black female mechanical engineer. The third season of the Lost Women of Science podcast begins at the start of her story, during her unconventional childhood in the segregated South

Jane Rigby, Webb’s operations project scientist, discusses how NASA plans to wring as much science as possible from the $10-billion observatory

A new generation of scientists are challenging the biased, hierarchical status quo

Lost Women of Science digs deep to uncover stories of scientists that have long been overlooked

Women are investigating critical climate crisis problems such as the stability of giant ice sheets

The groundbreaking scientist ushered in a revolution in how we think about the universe. She also lived by a set of principles that made her an exceptional human being

America’s first woman in space worked to make STEM education more equitable and inclusive, with a special emphasis on encouraging participation by girls

Nineteenth-century researcher Anna Atkins collected specimens of algae and imaged them using the then cutting-edge blueprinting process

The 19th-century nurse and public health researcher understood the importance of light in fighting and preventing disease

Known fondly as the proprietor of “Bea’s Diner,” the nutritionist who created menus for our first spacefarers deserves to be better remembered

The 19th-century black “doctress” Rebecca Davis Lee Crumpler should be on everyone’s radar

Born 300 years ago this month, Agnesi was the first woman to write a mathematics textbook and to be appointed to a university chair in math

Cast your vote for the unsung and insufficiently sung female heroes of science for a celebratory poster series from the Perimeter Institute

Elizabeth Stern’s research led the way to our modern understanding of the prevention, treatment and diagnosis of cervical cancer