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Looking Beyond the Female Firsts of Science History | Science
Stamped in relief on the back of the heavy gold medal given to Nobel Prize recipients in the sciences is the image of two women. One, bare-breasted and holding a…
Women Resistance Fighters of WWII, the Secret Lives of Ants and Other New Books to…
When Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, sparking the beginning of World War II, the leaders of a Warsaw-based chapter of the Zionist HeHalutz youth movement…
How Mrs. Edge Saved the Birds | Science
One frosty October morning, I climbed a winding mile-long path to the North Lookout at Hawk Mountain Sanctuary in Eastern Pennsylvania. Laurie Goodrich, the director…
Biologist Marie Fish Catalogued the Sounds of the Ocean for the World to Hear |…
Among the many puzzles that confronted American sailors during World War II, few were as vexing as the sound of phantom enemies. Especially in the war’s early days,…
America’s Original Gangster Couple, Trailblazing Women Explorers and Other New…
At the height of the Roaring Twenties, the Whittemore Gang targeted banks and jewelry stores across the East Coast, stealing upward of $1 million in diamonds and…
The Way Americans Remember the Blackwell Sisters Shortchanges Their Legacy | History
The image is arresting: a young woman in three-quarter profile, creamy skin, Mona Lisa smile, calm dark eyes. She is perhaps 20. She wears her hair upswept with a…