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Girls Choose Science

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The Woman Who Unraveled the Mysteries of Soy

Yehudith Birk discovered the activity of a certain soy protein, enabling its use for a wide range of applications – from pest control to cancer treatment

calendar 16.4.2018
reading-time 5 minutes

The Woman behind Dark Matter

In memory of Vera Rubin, the astrophysicist who shed new light on the motion of galaxies and provided evidence for the existence of dark matter

calendar 27.12.2017
reading-time 6 minutes

Like Parents, Like Daughter

The 119th birthday of Irène Joliot-Curie, who won the Nobel Prize for discovering induced radioactivity

calendar 27.12.2017
reading-time 5 minutes

The First Woman in Space

53 years since the Valentina Tereshkova’s historical flight, the only woman to ever fly alone in space

calendar 18.12.2017
reading-time 4 minutes

The Teacher who Changed Mathematics

Emmy Noether was a prominent mathematician, while overcoming discrimination and persecution

calendar 14.12.2017
reading-time 8 minutes

The Woman Who Found a Peculiar Star

50th anniversary of the discovery of the pulsar, for which the Nobel Prize was not awarded to the scientist who found it, but only to her supervisor

calendar 11.12.2017
reading-time 9 minutes

The Woman Who Spread her Wings

Marking the 120th birthday of Amelia Earhart, the aviation pioneer who stretched the limits of humanity

calendar 9.12.2017
reading-time 10 minutes

How many girls can you find in a physics lesson?

In 2017, there are still fewer girls than boys majoring in sciences. Why? What can we do about it?

calendar 30.11.2017
reading-time 7 minutes

Ada Yonath – Unraveling the Secrets of Life’s Building Blocks

Ada Yonath solved the structure of the cell’s protein factory and won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

calendar 28.11.2017
reading-time 6 minutes