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Born in 1842 and home-schooled, but driven by a fierce love of science and nature and not one to be easily deterred, Ellen Henrietta Swallow was the first woman to attend and graduate from MIT ( then called the Institute for Tec

War can be so destructive to lives and infrastructure, and, as it turns out, seeds.

Our retina’s sensory experience of reflected light is almost instantaneously transformed into a perception we call our vision.

 

Lars and I discussed the recent Oscars, notably the win for "Oppenheimer," the biopic about the physicist who headed the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bombs during the 1940s.  I shared my connections to the Manhattan Project, in

My children both want homes, but they, like many of their generation, find that this American dream is beyond their reach. Why is housing so expensive?

Holden Thorp, the editor-in-chief of the prestigious journal Science, de

  File this under remembering the past.

“Fräulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.

“Fräulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.