Vera Rubin
Vera Florence Cooper Rubin was an American astronomer who pioneered work on galaxy rotation rates. She uncovered the discrepancy between the predicted and observed angular motion of galaxies by studying galactic rotation curves.
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Carl Wieman makes an evidence-based plea for better science instruction in a new book on what might be his grandest experiment yet
As a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, Carl Wieman could probably get away with being a mediocre teacher. Yet he’s devoted much of his career to improving the ways colleges and universities teach science, in his own classrooms and in one of the grandest experiments of his life: the multicampus Science Education Initiative.
Nancy Coover Andreasen
Nancy Coover Andreasen is an American neuroscientist and neuropsychiatrist. She currently holds the Andrew H. Woods Chair of Psychiatry at the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine at the University of Iowa.
Citizens for better science
The left should advocate for free access to not only scientific literature and data but also the means of production of science.
The Disturbing Resilience of Scientific Racism
A new book explores how racist biases continue to maintain a foothold in research today
How the metaverse can lead to better science
In 2021, Facebook made "metaverse" the buzziest word on the web, rebranding itself as Meta and announcing a plan to build "a set of interconnected digital spaces that lets you do things you can't do in the physical world." Since then, the metaverse has been called many different things. Some say it is the "future of the internet." Others call it "an amorphous concept that no one really wants."
Stefanie Dimmeler
Stefanie Dimmeler is a German biologist specializing in the pathophysiological processes underlying cardiovascular diseases. Her awards and honours include the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation for her work on the programmed cell death of endothelial cells.