All content by Ida Selander
Math:
Katherine Johnson was born Katherine Coleman on August 26, 1918, in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, the youngest of four children. Her skill with mathematics and numbers manifested at a...
Engineering:
Sally Ride was born on May 26, 1951, in Encino, California (near Los Angeles), the older daughter of Carol Joyce and Dale Burdell Ride. She had one sibling, nicknamed "Bear" (her real name...
Ada Lovelace was the first one to realize that the machine had potential beyond simple calculation, and was known as the first computer programmer for the algorithm that she wrote. Here is her story.
Watson and Crick are two names almost synonymous with the famous "double helix" structure of DNA. Here is the real story of how it was discovered.
You may be familiar with the story of Juan Ponce de Leon, a Spanish explorer, famous for his legendary search for the Fountain of Youth. A species of jellyfish (called turritopsis dohrnii) seems to have...
A new and sustainable way to build.
