Meet Evelyn Boyd Granville, the mathematician who mass produced computers and shot Apollo into space
Read now →One of the first Black women to earn a PhD in math, she worked on seemingly every major math project of the 20th century
Neandertals don't deserve their bad, dim-witted reputation
Read now →Our hominin ancestor had bigger brains and probably went extinct with climate change. Who are we to judge?
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Meet Jane Colden, the 18th century botanist snubbed by Linnaeus
Read now →A barrier-breaking scientist with no formal training, she has been repeatedly left out of science history
Orangutans and bonobos at the San Diego Zoo have been vaccinated for COVID-19
Read now →The apes were given an experimental vaccine originally developed for dogs and cats
Monkeys and apes in Africa and Asia are also susceptible to SARS-CoV-2
Read now →New research compared the configurations of the ACE2 protein in 29 non-human primates
Island- and mainland-dwelling gibbons have differently shaped jaws
Read now →These findings could help scientists classify fossil primates
Your own yard could help reverse global insect declines
Read now →Non-native plants are one of many factors driving global declines in insect populations – but you can help
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Storytelling is the antidote to Americans' mistrust of science
Read now →Beyond just making us feel good and entertained, storytelling can effect change
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