TechnologyMay 18, 2026
The programmer whose code underpins the Internet
Sharla Boehm, a math teacher, spent her summers coding. She’d go on to build what would eventually evolve into the Internet
Stories by Samia Bouzid
Samia Bouzid is an audio producer, writer, and science communicator whose work spans a range of topics related to science and culture. She has contributed to audio programs such as Duolingo’s French and Spanish podcasts, the BBC’s Short Cuts and LWC Studios’ 100 Latina Birthdays. She holds an M.A. in journalism from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York and a B.S. in astrophysics from Rutgers University.
HealthApril 10, 2025
Long after Her Tragic Death, We Follow in the Footsteps of the Dominican Republic’s First Female Doctor
The regime of dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo all but erased Andrea Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo’s legacy after she died. But since his assassination in 1961, Dominicans have been gradually reclaiming her story
HealthApril 3, 2025
Pioneering Female Doctor Evangelina Rodríguez Faced a Dictator’s Reign of Terror
Beginning in the 1930s, the work—and eventually the life—of Andrea Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo, the Dominican Republic’s first female doctor, became threatened by the country’s then new dictator
March 27, 2025
Rebel Doctor Evangelina Rodríguez Improved Lives and Courted Controversy on her Return to the Dominican Republic
Andrea Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo started innovative health programs on her return from France in 1925, but her advocacy for sex workers and contraception soon plunged her into controversy
HealthMarch 20, 2025
Evangelina Rodríguez Traveled to Paris to Revolutionize Health Care in the Dominican Republic
Andrea Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo, the Dominican Republic’s first female doctor, raised the funds to set sail for Paris so that she can learn about the latest advances in women’s health
HealthMarch 13, 2025
Evangelina Rodríguez Led an Extraordinary Life as the Dominican Republic’s First Female Doctor
Born into poverty and abandoned by her parents, Andrea Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo rises from a life selling sweets in the street to become the first female Dominican doctor in 1911
Particle PhysicsAugust 8, 2024
This Researcher Helped Create a Machine to Pursue the ‘Quest for Everything’
Helen Edwards was a particle physicist who led the design and construction of the Tevatron, a machine built to probe deeper into the atom than anyone had gone before.
LanguageApril 25, 2024
Elizabeth Bates and the Search for the Roots of Human Language
In the 1970s a young psychologist challenged a popular theory of how we acquire language, launching a fierce debate that continues to this day
AstronomyApril 4, 2024
The Victorian Woman Who Chased Eclipses
Annie Maunder was an astronomer who expanded our understanding of the sun at the turn of the 20th century. Her passion was photographing eclipses.
LanguageMarch 21, 2024
The Cognitive Neuroscientist Who Helped Unravel the Mysteries of Language
Ursula Bellugi was fixated on how we learn language. Her groundbreaking research on sign language demonstrated the connection between language skills and biology
AstronomyFebruary 8, 2024
The Forgotten Star of Radio Astronomy
Ruby Payne-Scott and her colleagues unlocked a new way of seeing the universe, but to keep her job, Ruby had to keep a big secret.