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EDITORIAL FEATURE

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

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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

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

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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

"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 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

Spotlight Story

Die Geschichte der ersten Programmiererin

How Ada Lovelace traded in poems for coding

Gordon Welchman - the Architect of ‘Ultra’ Intelligence

His pioneering work was fundamental to the success of Bletchley Park

Frauen in der Informatik: eine britische Perspektive

“Computing is too important to be left to men.”

Women of Bletchley Park

Their remarkable experiences, in their own words.

Did life come from outer space?

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And other explorations by the Indian astronomy hero Govind Swarup

Opening the heavens

The inventors who allowed us to see into space

Govind Swarup

The pioneer of radio astronomy in India

Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli

Unlocking the secrets of the sky

Two people who changed how we saw space forever

Astronomy Pioneers Isaac Newton and Edmund Halley

The people who discovered Uranus

Sibling stars, William and Caroline Herschel

The dropout who invented something in your pocket right now

And other engineers who worked to change the way we interact with the world

Roland Moreno

The inventor of the smart card

Etienne-Jules Marey

Doctor, biologist, and the first filmmaker in French cinema

Elsie MacGill

First female aeronautical engineer

Nikola Tesla

The AC motor

Torres Quevedo

An automatics pioneer

Al-Jazari

The elephant clock

James Watt

A Scottish polymath

Marconi

The radio telegraph

How a Parisian Magician Became a Film-Making Icon

Lights, camera, invention!

Pioneers of film and photographic techniques

Do horses ever take all four feet off the ground?

The riddle solved by motion picture pioneer Eadweard Muybridge

How Warren de la Rue captured an eclipse on camera

Combining the telescope and the camera

David Kakabadze's experiments in 3D cinema

A new dimension to invention

On the road: The hidden side of Eadweard Muybridge

There's more to the motion picture pioneer than you might think

Body building

The doctors and scientists who solved mysteries of the body and saved lives

The man who opened our eyes

How Ibn al-Haytham discovered how we see

René Favaloro: Etched in our Hearts

The man who pioneered the heart bypass

Physicians from a lost history

Meet physicians, surgeons and alchemists from the Golden Age of early Muslim civilisation.

The Nobel Prize Winner who Unraveled the Human Brain

Santiago Ramón y Cajal, the pioneer of modern neuroscience,

The woman behind the Apgar score

Meet the woman who changed the way we care for newborn babies

Frontrunner: leading the race in medical discovery

The running scientist

Searching for species

Meet the pioneers who discovered new animals and plants

The Grand Old Man of Science

Alfred Russel Wallace's discoveries about species distribution

Mary Anning: dinosaur hunter

The overlooked paleontology pioneer

Helping an important theory about evolution take flight

Henry Bates' discoveries from the Amazon

1,000 years of innovation

How information was passed through generations and across civilizations

Meet the House of Wisdom

Meet some of the leading lights of the Golden Age of science in Muslim civilisation

European knowledge from Arabic roots

Discover how 17th-century European scholars rediscovered knowledge from early Muslim civilisation

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Life-changing inventions and discoveries

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