A new podcast from Lost Women of Science tells the story of Katharine Burr Blodgett, who invented nonreflective glass while working at General Electric, but who is often forgotten.

Scott Detrow talks to Lulu Miller, the host of Radiolab's Terrestrials podcast, about her conversation with the scientist Wanda Diaz-Merced, who studies gravitational waves that ripple through ...

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Science journalists tend to approach the edges – or dare I say fringes – of science with caution, and rightly so. But former New Scientist staffer and acclaimed journalist Jo Marchant boldly goes ...