Spotlight on Women in Science

By harnessing “female energy,” Christiana Figueres convinced humanity to take on climate change

Lise Meitner solved the problem of nuclear fission—and although she never got the Nobel, she is the only woman outside of mythology to have an element named after her alone

Her husband, Claude, helped create the computer revolution, but few knew that she was his closest collaborator

African-American women working behind the scenes as “human computers” were vital to the Space Race

She was a physicist, too—and there is evidence that she contributed significantly to his groundbreaking science

Everyone knows that history's great mathematicians were all men—but everybody is wrong