Science

Deborah Gordon

Think ants are pests that you wish would just go away? Not so fast, Dr. Deborah Gordon thinks that we as humans have a lot to learn from these efficient foragers.

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Margaret Oakley Dayhoff

Margaret Oakley Dayhoff has been called the “mother and father of bioinformatics” as she was a pioneer of applying mathematics and computational methods to biochemistry.

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Sandrine Thuret

Scientists used to think that the adult brain didn’t change, but Dr. Sandrine Thuret has shown that new neurons are still formed.

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Linda Morabito

March 9th is the anniversary of the announcement of the first discovery of extraterrestrial volcanic activity by astronomer Linda Morabito.

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Margaret Chan

Dr. Margaret Chan has faced many challenges as the director-general of the World Health Organization.

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Michelle Buchanan

Michele Buchanan is hoping to change the world through her research into energy, and her work at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

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Lynn Margulis

Lynn Margulis’ first paper was rejected 15 times before it was finally published, but her theories of symbiogenesis made a huge impact.

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Isabel Bassett Wasson

March 1st is the anniversary of the founding of Yellowstone, the world’s first national park. And its first female ranger was Isabel Bassett Wasson.

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Laura Manuelidis

February 29th is Rare Disease Day, and today we’re featuring a scientist with a rare perspective on a rare disease: Dr. Laura Manuelidis.

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Katharine Burr Blodgett

Many of the films honored with Oscars throughout the years owe the beauty of their moving images to research scientist Katharine Burr Blodgett.

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