A look at several great women in science — and why so many of them, and their contributions, have been forgotten.
“Project Hail Mary,” the movie adaptation to Andy Weir’s 2021 novel about a science teacher attempting to save the Earth from sun-eating microbes, was released in March 2026 to stellar ratings from ...
Dr. Christine Darden, and the legacy of NASA's human computers, inspired many generations of women in STEM.
Problems of the natural world can be addressed through, and only through, mastery and cooperation might seem like a truism, but in Weir's stories, it emerges as an expansively hopeful thesis.