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(NASA / JPL-Caltech) How Sexism Held Back Space Exploration
America’s early aerospace engineers ignored computers because they considered programming to be women's work.
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NASA / JPL-Caltech The Women Behind the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Among the institution’s earliest employees were female “computers” whose calculations made the first rocket launches possible.
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NASA / Reuters Private Spaceflight and the Legacy of the Challenger Disaster
Thirty years after the shuttle explosion, the U.S. is once again excited about sending civilians into space.
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Eric Thayer / Reuters In Search of a Safe Painkiller for Kids
The FDA recently approved OxyContin for pediatric patients. Many believe the decision will harm more children than it helps.
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aredmon48/Flickr Bump Tracker: Nine Months of Big Data
As marketers chase information about mothers-to-be, growing embryos are tracked with genetic precision that will change pregnancies forever.
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Romeo Ranoco/Reuters Resisting Pediatric Research and Missing Chances for Cures
Is it riskier to give children experimental treatments, or not to?
