Stories by Mariel Carr

Mariel Carr is the executive producer of the Distillations podcast and videos. Mariel has previously worked as a video and radio producer at KALW radio in San Francisco and PBS’s Frontline, and as a teaching artist at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

An illustration of a woman scientist in 19th century garb

ChemistryMarch 20, 2026

Agnes Pockels’ pioneering work was unfairly dismissed by tropes about women’s domestic roles

Agnes Pockels achievements in surface science have long been overshadowed by a popular and likely untrue story that she became interested in the subject while doing the dishes

Alexis Pedrick, Sophia Levin, The Lost Women of Science Initiative, Mariel Carr