The Unique Challenges of Being a Black Woman in STEM
Women face widespread discrimination in science. Chemist Dr. Raychelle Burks discusses the additional challenges for those with intersectional identities.
Visualizing Discrimination and Harassment of Women in STEM
Discover how the metaphor of an iceberg can help depict the various forms of sexual harassment affecting women in STEM.
Hindenburg: The New Evidence Preview
80 years after the world’s largest airship ignited in a giant fireball, newly discovered footage sparks a reinvestigation of what exactly caused the Hindenburg disaster.
Building a Family as a Transgender Person
Trystan Reese felt grateful that he was able to become pregnant and give birth. But for parents about to transition, there are steps they can take to preserve their fertility.
To Start a Family, This Woman Turned to Egg Freezing
At 39, Brigitte Adams became an early adopter of egg vitrification, a technology that can dramatically improve the preservation of a woman's eggs and, potentially, her future fertility.
Here’s her story.
How Weathering Affects Black Women's Fertility
Black women have experienced long-standing social, economic, and environmental stress that leads to more adverse reproductive health outcomes.
Fighting for Fertility Preview
What causes infertility, and how can assisted reproductive technologies help? Follow the journeys of people navigating fertility challenges from structural inequalities and racism to falling sperm counts, egg freezing, and IVF.
The Coronavirus Pandemic's Toll on Mental Health
The precautions we’ve taken to quell the coronavirus pandemic—sheltering in place, social distancing, not spending much time with people outside our own households—have exacerbated America’s mental health crisis.
Are You Feeding a Powerful Facial Recognition Algorithm?
Facial recognition technology has great potential to help law enforcement identify suspects. But collecting and storing data from online photos has raised concern among critics.
GameStop, Reddit, and the Rise of Risky Trades
As many as one in four Americans have invested in speculative "meme" stocks in 2021, many using new mobile apps like Robinhood. How risky is it for small investors entering a volatile market?
Scientists Breed a New Generation of "Super Corals"
Some corals, called "super corals," are more resistant to temperature changes and bleaching. Discover how scientist Ruth Gates began a "super coral" breeding program to create more resilient reefs.
Reef Rescue Preview
If oceans continue to warm at the current pace, coral reefs could be wiped out by the end of the century. But scientists from around the globe are rushing to help corals adapt to a changing climate through assisted evolution.
Mexico's COVID Cases and Deaths are Underreported—Why?
Discover why coronavirus cases and deaths have been underreported in Mexico—and how it's not the only country with this problem.
Search Engine Breakdown
Why does a widely used internet search engine deliver results that can be blatantly racist and sexist? Two leading information researchers investigate their discoveries of hidden biases in the search technology we rely on every day.
Picture a Scientist Preview
Women make up less than a quarter of STEM professionals in the United States, and numbers are even lower for women of color. But a growing group of researchers is exposing longstanding discrimination and making science more inclusive.
Texas' Power Grid Trouble is Far From Over
What did we learn from the Texas power grid crisis earlier this year and how can we build more resilient energy systems?
The Big Lie about Monarch Butterflies
Discover a piece of false information about monarch butterflies and Mexico’s Indigenous Purépecha community, and why tourism may be partly to blame.
Origins of Misinformation and How it Spreads
Watch as a piece of false information about llamas spreads across social media and gets disproved, only to have the story continue to circulate.
Looking for Life on Mars Preview
Follow along as NASA launches the Mars 2020 Mission, perhaps the most ambitious hunt yet for signs of ancient life on Mars. In February 2021, the spacecraft will blaze into the Martian atmosphere at some 12,000 miles per hour and attempt to lower the Perseverance Rover into the rocky Jezero Crater, home to a dried-up river delta scientists think could have harbored life.
This NASA Scientist Helps Prevent Mars from Contamination
The spacecraft has to be extremely clean. The entire spacecraft—that includes the rover, the heat shield, the descent stage, and back shell—must contain less than 500,000 bacterial endospores, or spores. Just to give you an idea, a teaspoon of seawater has ten times more bacteria.
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