Great Minds

The pioneers you should know

Know your Franklins from your Cricks

Boldly going where no woman has gone before

Inspiring the next generation of women scientists

“All creative people want to do the unexpected.”Hedy Lamarr

4 African American Inventors You Should Know

Your dream dinner party guests

Forces of nature

The forest hero

"Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine."Alan Turing

Movers and shakers

The electric submarine that never launched

The original IT crowd

Opening the heavens

The dropout who invented something in your pocket right now

How a Parisian Magician Became a Film-Making Icon

Lights, camera, invention!

Body building

Searching for species

1,000 years of innovation

Know your Franklins from your Cricks

It's time to remember the forgotten women scientists of history

Broadly Editor Zing Tsjeng on filling in the gaps of history

Boldly going where no woman has gone before

Unsung women who paved the way for future generations of female scientists

Natural history pioneers

The vehicle that could fly and float

And other innovative ideas by 19th century French women inventors

Kevlar, acidic volcanoes, and nuclear fission

The women behind big discoveries in science

From enzymes to thermoelectricity

Four women that changed the world with their inventions

Women engineers

Flares, locomotive wheels, and 3D

15 game-changing women of NASA

Meet the scientists who helped usher in a brave new world of women in STEM

Drawing attention to women

The research and illustrations of women from the Royal Society

Inspiring the next generation of women scientists

The first woman Program Director at the Indian Space Research Organisation

How Anuradha TK reached for the stars

Sujatha Ramdorai on giving women the chance to speak about science with passion

The University of British Columbia Professor on overcoming the odds

The inspirational words of Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay

Director at the Indian Statistical Institute

How achieving anything is possible with Vidita Vaidya

Neuroscientist at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

Going above and beyond with Shubha Tole

How the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research professor finds her own self-worth

The scientist who strives for symmetry in her life

Rama Govindarajan: Professor at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bengaluru

Overcoming assumptions with Gaiti Hasan

A Senior Professor at the National Centre for Biological Sciences

Why we need women in senior positions

Mitali Mukherji from the CSIR Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology tells her story

What it's like to work on the first Indian lunar mission

Following your dreams with Ritu Karidhal, scientist at the Indian Space Research Organisation

5 British Scientists Trying To Change The World

Creating superpowers with science: from wearable tech to a sixth sense

The science of tomorrow: Dr. Gadget

The science of tomorrow: The shapeshifter

The science of tomorrow: The sensational extra sense

The science of tomorrow: Channeling the elements

The science of tomorrow: Extraordinary x-ray

4 African American Inventors You Should Know

The people behind amazing things: from surgical needles to the microphone in your computer

Your dream dinner party guests

The Nobel prize winners changing the world

Portraits of Nobel Heroes

Revealing the personalities behind the great minds of our time

Sketches of Science

Nobel prize winning discoveries, in crayon...

Nobel Labs in 360

Visit Nobel Laureates in their laboratories and learn more about their award-winning research

Forces of nature

The people saving the planet

A lifelong quest to bring water to Himalayan villages

How Chewang Norphel is creating rivers of ice

Defeating drought with an ingenious method of harvesting rainwater

How Lakshman Singh saved his village

The forest hero

Almir Suruí: the indigenous chief who used technology to fight deforestation in Brazil

Movers and shakers

The engineers who got us from A to B

Flying above the world

How Angelo Arrigo flew above Everest in an hang glider

The constant curiosity of Clement Ader

In the footsteps of the aviation pioneer

Adventures on the Arabian Seas

Master navigators in Muslim civilisation

Spotlight on Orville Wright

The first heavier than air machine which flew by its own power under human control

The electric submarine that never launched

How Isaac Peral's invention was forgotten

The disappearance into obscurity of one of the greatest revolutions in naval engineering

The original IT crowd

Trailblazers in computing, cryptanalysis, and codebreaking

L'histoire de la première programmatrice

How Ada Lovelace traded in poems for coding

Gordon Welchman - the Architect of ‘Ultra’ Intelligence