Hello, dear readers! The year is almost over, but that doesn’t mean that our stories about Badass Women in History will stop. Each month we’ll continue to write about a historical badass lady so you can learn about their contributions to society and be inspired. If you read October’s article, you learned about Fatima Al-Fihri: the woman who created the first university. […]
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If you’re in the know, you might have heard about NASA’s New Horizon’s mission to Pluto. If you’re really in the know, you may have heard about the strikingly large number of women involved with the mission. How many women, you might ask? Maybe enough to make up the whole team — or at least a […]
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Name: Maria Gelabert Grade: Senior March’s Germ Girl is Maria Gelabert, an ambitious, well-rounded, and intelligent science whiz hailing from sunny Los Angeles. Her dream? To live on Mars. We were already impressed, but if that wasn’t enough, she’s equally as talented in the English department as she is in the math/science field. For instance, Maria helped create […]
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After Senator James Inhofe “proved”—by lobbing a snowball—that 2014 couldn’t have been the hottest year on record and that global warming can’t be a thing because the chilliest regions of the US obviously make up the entire globe, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse gave the above response. Who do you think makes more sense: A) the backward […]
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Want a better idea of how huge the universe is? Take a gander at the biggest and most detailed image yet of the Andromeda Galaxy, our nearest galactic neighbor, which is 2.5 million light years away and estimated to contain a trillion stars. Now think about how estimates have shown that there are more than 100 billion galaxies […]
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Alyssa Carson is a 13-year-old Louisiana girl with the huge dream of being the 1st person to land on Mars. Her tale is incredibly inspirational because she is (obviously) a girl who has dedicated her young life to her dogged pursuit of becoming an astronaut. Alyssa has dedicated herself to studying science on her path […]
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A tenfold spike in methane has been measured by the Curiosity rover on Mars, and organic molecules have also been discovered. Now the question is: Are these organics biological or non-biological? All that methane can only mean one thing, in my mind: Martian cows. But I could be wrong. What do you think?
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The Orion spacecraft may soon — depending on your definition of “soon” — take a crew of actual humans to Mars (no, not cardboard cut-outs of humans; not even chimpanzees dressed up as humans). But, for now, check out the take-off of its first test flight.
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