Jane J. Lee
In Her Words: Sylvia Earle on Women in Science
Posted by Jane J. Lee on June 14, 2013 National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Sylvia Earle reflects on her scientific career and on gender obstacles she faced along the way.
Google Doodle Honors Mathematician Leonhard Euler
Posted by Jane J. Lee on April 15, 2013 
Today’s Google Doodle honors Leonhard Euler—an 18th-century numbers whiz who’s credited with being the most prolific mathematician in history.
Read Francis Crick’s $6 Million Letter to Son Describing DNA
Posted by Jane J. Lee on April 11, 2013 
Read the letter that sold at auction for just over $6 million. Francis Crick, one of three researchers awarded a Nobel Prize in 1962 for discovering the structure of DNA, wrote a letter in 1953 describing the finding to his 12-year-old son, who was away at boarding school.
On our radar today: 1) Scientists try to copy leaves that impale bedbugs; 2) Oregon set to name its official microbe; 3) Broad-faced men are better at baseball…
On Thursday nights, 10 million people are thinking about physics. That’s the weekly viewership for The Big Bang Theory, the CBS sitcom about a theoretical physicist, an experimental physicist, an engineer, and an astronomer. They hang out together, search for love, fight off rival scientists for grants, and squabble over who gets to visit the…
A species of sea slug cuts its own penis off after mating and regrows a new reproductive organ within 24 hours, a new study says.
