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UNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 1754: Marie Curie (1867-1934) Polish-born French physicist in her laboratory in 1912, the year after she received here second Nobel prize, this time for chemistry. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

Physics

Rich biography of Marie Curie shows how she helped women into science

Marie Curie redefined the role of women in science by training a generation of 鈥渓ab daughters鈥� to have stellar careers, shows Dava Sobel's detailed and intimate new biography, The Elements of Marie Curie

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Environment

Eunice Newton Foote: The woman who discovered the greenhouse effect

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Humans

Claims that girls have a ‘natural’ aversion to physics are harmful

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Humans

Suffrage Science podcast salutes the achievements of female scientists

Culture

Humans

Don鈥檛 Miss: Sci-fi writer Adrian Tchaikovsky returns with Bear Head

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Wally Funk and Mercury 13
Space

Wally Funk and the future of female astronauts

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Humans

Seasonal gift ideas for lovers of terrific science reads and top films

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Jon Spooner (left) meets Apollo astronaut Al Worden in the Space Shed

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Clockwork Orange

Life

Don’t miss: Missing women, metallic mysteries and a classic dystopia

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Space

NASA cancels first all-women spacewalk due to spacesuit size issue

NASA scheduled the first ever spacewalk with only female astronauts this week, but it has been cancelled because聽there isn't enough time to configure a spacesuit that fits

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Cheer the first women-only spacewalk, but equality is still far away

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Don’t believe women in science face huge inequality? Here’s the proof

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Physics

Women in physics: Why there’s a problem and how we can solve it

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Why Dorothy Hodgkin should be pictured on the UK鈥檚 new 拢50 note

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