Young Scientist Eesha Khare Chats With Conan About Her Award Winning Experiment
Harvard-bound Eesha Khare, one of three winners of this year’s Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, talked to Conan O’Brian about her experiment on cell phone batteries, ”Design and...
View ArticleThe Brain Scoop Discovers How Elephant Teeth Work
You won’t know how excited you can get over flying squirrels until you vicariously experience Emily Graslie getting excited over flying squirrels.
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15 Year Old Girl Levels Up In Science Bossitude, Invents a Flashlight Powered...
When I was in tenth grade I’m pretty sure I spent most of my free time watching movies and reading fanfic. And here Ann Makosinski is inventing a new type of flashlight and advancing to the finals of...
View ArticleThe Brain Scoop Explains the Olinguito, New Adorable Mammal Species Found...
The olinguito, a carnivorous South American relative of the raccoon, was discovered in a museum in Chicago, Illinois. How? Find out, with the Brain Scoop. Previously in The Brain Scoop The Brain Scoop...
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Orphan Black Star Tatiana Maslany Talks About Clone Agency
BBC America’s hit series Orphan Black starts filming Season 2 at the end of this month but star Tatiana Maslany was interviewed by TV Guide on set for her Parks & Recreation guest role and...
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Lego’s First Female Scientist Minifig Now on Sale
Her name is Professor C. Bodin, and she’s responsible for breakthroughs that allow the swapping of body parts from one Lego person to another, allowing minifigs everywhere to experience various forms...
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Let’s Hear From the Lady Astronaut Who Taught Gravity‘s Sandra Bullock About...
We’ve been a bit obsessed with Gravity as of late, for several reasons: Space! A lady astronaut! Alfonso Cuarón! All those amazing, terrifying trailers! So, needless to say, we were very interested...
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We Predict a Rise in Moon Tourism Popularity With This Year’s Ig Nobel Prizes
Well, it’s been almost a week, it’s about time that we talked about the 2013 Ig Nobel prizes, right? Among the women honored with the Ig Nobel this year - You know, the award given to strange...
View ArticleDoesn’t Breaking Bad End Tonight? Here’s a Chat With Science Advisor Dr....
In advance of tonight’s series finale of Breaking Bad [pause for incoherent screaming from fans], here’s an interesting interview PBS science correspondent Miles O’Brien and Boing Boing’s Xeni Jardin...
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Marvel and Natalie Portman Announce Mentoring Program for Girls Interested in...
Marvel has announced the Ultimate Mentor Adventure, part mentor program, part contest, that gives American girls in grades 9-12 the resources to find and interview professional women in science,...
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Halle Berry Is Doing A Sci-Fi Show About a Female Astronaut For CBS
Houston, I have no problem with this. What’s Extant, which will premiere on CBS next summer, going to be about? Take it away, official press release: “[Halle] Berry will play an astronaut who returns...
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Scientists Organize Mass Wikipedia Edit in Honor of Ada Lovelace Day
I’ll admit, the first thing that springs to my mind when people mention organized Wikipedia edits is Wikipedia vandalism, perhaps because it’s just a bit more exciting than the alternative. That is,...
View ArticleThe Brainscoop Explains: Moths vs. Butterflies
Thank goodness, now I know how to remember that butterflies make chrysalises and moths make cocoons. Previously in The Brain Scoop What Makes the Hero Shrew So Heroic? New Species of South American...
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It’s Ada Lovelace Day: Here’s A Bunch of Rockin’ T-Shirt Designs Featuring...
Enable JavaScript to check out our fancy slideshow. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. [View All on One Page] Today’s the day to celebrate badass early programmer Ada Lovelace, but with these shirts from...
View ArticleRosalind Franklin. Watson and Crick. Rap Battle. [VIDEO]
Rosalind Franklin was a biophysicist whose discoveries about the structure of DNA were integral to the early work of genetics pioneers James Watson and Francis Crick. Actually, saying they were...
View ArticleThis Bra Tweets Whenever It’s Unhooked
What a world we live in. Every time this bra by OgilvyOne Athens is unhooked it tweets a reminder to @TweetingBra‘s followers to perform monthly breast self-exams. Awww. I was prepared to be all...
View ArticleHave Some Science In Your Art With This Wonderful Animated Short
Why Do I Study Physics? (2013) from Xiangjun Shi on Vimeo. In this short film animator/physics enthusiast Xiangjun Shi uses art to explain why she loves physics so much. Though visually amazing, my...
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Jane and Darcy Do Mad Science In Foster’s Laboratory
Leigh Lahav, who drew this Thor/Dexter’s Laboratory poster, is also behind those cute animated videos about fangirlism that we’ve posted a bunch of. Seeing as she has experience making shorts, I...
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There’s An All-Female Team of Spelunking Scientists Making Amazing...
A veritable treasure trove of prehistoric bones is discovered. A small team is needed to retrieve what could be evidence of a new human ancestor. The chosen few have to be scientists and experienced...
View ArticleThe Brain Scoop Asks: Where My YouTube Science Ladies At?
The Brain Scoop’s Emily Graslie delivers a thoughtful address on YouTubing about science as a woman. Got a favorite lady videoblogger who talks about science? Let us know in the comments! Previously...
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Female Scientists Receive Less Funding Than Their Male Counterparts. You...
Today in Women in STEM Fields: The Struggle, The Life, a study conducted by University College London’s Infectious Disease Research Network has found that U.K. female scientists working on infectious...
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Kari Byron, On the Importance of Representation in Science
Kari Byron spoke to Mother Jones recently on what it’s like being the Chick on Mythbusters, what her inner twelve year old would think about what she’s doing now, and how babies and science are...
View ArticleAimee Mann Sings a Break Up Song About Science and the Common Cold
In this week when it seemed like every person in New York City came down with the same bout of undefinable chest congestion, it seems fit to cap it off with Aimee Mann dressed as the common cold while...
View ArticleFor Valentines Day, The Brain Scoop Gives Us Ant Sex
*sigh* How romantic. Previously in The Brain Scoop A Less in Holiday Plants YouTube, and Science, and Women Moths vs. Butterflies Are you following The Mary Sue on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr,...
View ArticleThe Brain Scoop Answers Your Pertinent Questions
Weird names, dead dogs, and what you wish you could tell your high school self. Our answers to all those questions are basically the same as well. So don’t send us a dead dog. Previously in The Brain...
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Facebook Page “I F-ing Love Science” Is Getting A TV Series, With Craig...
Here at The Mary Sue, we fucking love science. We love smart ladies doing cool things, too. Therefore, we take it as rather exciting news that the enormously popular I Fucking Love Science Facebook...
View ArticleShut Down Everything: Somebody Filmed Their Daughter Reacting to Cosmos
Two-and-a-half year old Delilah loves Cosmos, and she’s pretty darn good at planets too. Don’t worry, Delilah, in reality, the objects in the asteroid belt are really quite far apart, Neil’s gonna get...
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Female Special Effects Pioneers Share Stories From Star Wars, Back to the...
In 1989, I was a young feminist who wanted to be a filmmaker. While there weren’t many women in this fairly “boys club” field, Academy Award winner Ed Jones hired me in Optical because he knew I could...
View ArticleComedian Lauren Reeves Still in the Running for Mars One Mission That Will...
Mars One is essentially a reality show posing as space mission to establish a human colony on Mars. It’s kind of a joke, so it’s only fitting that comedian Lauren Reeves‘ submission to join the...
View ArticleThese “Science Riot Grrls” Just Won The Science Fair Of My Heart [Video]
Few things make me happier than seeing little humans grinning over science projects. Here’s the origin story: The young singer in this video came home from science class excited about the cool...
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