Modern rocketry turns 100—and NASA says the best is yet to come
A century after Robert Goddard’s first-ever launch of a liquid-fueled rocket, two NASA experts weigh in on what his legacy still holds for spaceflight’s future
Why did the public forget Katharine Burr Blodgett’s brilliant legacy?
We trace the final chapter of Katharine Burr Blodgett’s career, her retirement from GE and her disappearance from public memory
Long-lost page of Archimedes’ writings rediscovered in France
The discovery adds to the Archimedes Palimpsest, an important medieval manuscript containing texts from the Greek mathematician Archimedes
Katharine Burr Blodgett kept an inner struggle out of sight as she made history in the laboratory
At the height of her career, chemist and physicist Katharine Burr Blodgett faced challenges that not even her closest colleagues suspected
Katharine Burr Blodgett made a breakthrough when she discovered ‘invisible glass’
When Katharine Burr Blodgett discovered nonreflecting glass, the General Electric Company’s public relations machine made her a star
Trump’s order to release evidence for aliens obscures the scientific search for extraterrestrial life
On Thursday the U.S. president ordered the release of federal files related to UFOs and aliens, although no evidence of extraterrestrials visiting Earth is known to exist
Katharine Burr Blodgett’s brilliance had to fit into the role of the only woman in a lab filled with men—it was the air she breathed
From Schenectady, N.Y., to the University of Cambridge, Katharine Burr Blodgett’s brilliance impressed the world’s leading physicists
Katharine Burr Blodgett’s brilliant career began at the ‘House of Magic’
When a young Katharine Burr Blodgett joined future Nobel Prize winner Irving Langmuir at the General Electric Company’s industrial research laboratory in Schenectady, N.Y, it was the start of her brilliant career
Space archaeologists may have found a long-lost Soviet lander on the moon
Scientists have spent decades searching for the final resting place of Luna 9, the first spacecraft to soft-land on the moon. Now they’re on the cusp of finding it
Lost ancient Greek star catalog decoded by particle accelerator
Synchrotron radiation has revealed a star map made by the ancient astronomer Hipparchus that was thought to be lost to time
Rediscovering Katharine Burr Blodgett’s scientific brilliance
The Lost Women of Science team uncovers Katharine Burr Blodgett’s overlooked brilliance
The chemical genius of Katharine Burr Blodgett
The story of a woman whose discoveries in materials science quietly shape our everyday world but whose legacy was long eclipsed by the famous scientist she worked with at the General Electric Company