For Yet Better Science

Gender bias in science has resulted in drug tests that treat the female body as an aberration, and search algorithms that perpetuate discrimination, but the solution is simple: increase the numbers of women working in the field and support the girls hoping to join them one day.   

Olexander Smakula  ( Ukrainian :  Олександр Теодорович Смакула ) (1900 in  Dobrovody ,  Austria-Hungary , today  Ukraine  – 17 May 1983 in  Auburn, Massachusetts ,  USA ) was a  Ukrainian  physicist known for the invention of  anti-reflective lens coatings  based on  optical interference .

Borys Yevhenovych Paton  ( Ukrainian :  Бори́с Євге́нович Пато́н ,  Russian :  Борис Евгеньевич Патон ; 27 November 1918 – 19 August 2020 ) was a Ukrainian scientist and a long-time chairman of the  National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine . He was appointed to this post in 1962 and held it until his death.  Paton, like his father  Evgeny Paton , was famous for his works in  electric welding .

In this editorial Hilda Bastian, Scientist and Editor, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, US, discusses the many different ways to respond to published research and highlights possible barriers to the success of post-publication commentaries.

S tudies have piled up in recent years, making clear that newer, hands-on methods of teaching science—emphasizing discussions over lectures, practical applications rather than rubrics—can significantly improve student success. And if anyone could be expected to make a convincing case for the wider adoption of those methods, it’s Carl E. Wieman. Winner of a Nobel Prize in Physics, he has made a second career of studying and promoting such overhauls.

Shen Kuo ,  Wade-Giles romanization   Shen K’uo , (born 1031, Qiantang [now  Hangzhou , Zhejiang province], China—died 1095, Jingkou [now  Zhenjiang ,  Jiangsu  province]), Chinese astronomer, mathematician, and high official whose famous work  Mengxi bitan  (“Brush Talks from Dream Brook” [Dream Brook was the name of his estate in Jingkou]) contains the first reference to the magnetic  compass , the first description of  movable type , and a fairly accurate explanation of the origin of  fossils . The  Mengxi bitan  also contains Shen’s observations on such varied subjects as  mathematics ,  astronomy , atmospheric phenomena,  cartography ,  optics , and  medicine . Shen produced a number of works, including commentaries on the  Confucian Classics , atlases,  diplomatic  reports, and a variety of monographs. His  Mengxi bitan  was written relatively late in life, after he had been removed from office on a trumped-up charge and banished after troops under his titular command suffered a

Chien-Shiung Wu is a pioneer and pivotal figure in the history of physics. An immigrant to the United States from China, she did important work for the  Manhattan Project  and in experimental physics. Her crucial contribution to particle physics was, however, ignored by the Nobel Prize committee when it awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics.