by Heather Laskin | Mar 2, 2017 | Awesome, Inspiration
Five storied female NASA pioneers will soon grace toy-store shelves, in Lego form. The Danish company announced on Tuesday that it would produce the Women of NASA set, submitted by science writer Maia Weinstock. “Women have played critical roles throughout the...
by Heather Laskin | Dec 3, 2016 | Awesome
A berry found on Australia’s Blushwood tree, and found only in the far north of the country, is showing incredible success in curing many types of cancer (skin, head and neck, and breast). How successful ? EBC46, injected directly into the tumor, can kill it in just...
by Heather Laskin | Sep 27, 2016 | Awesome
A 25-year-old student has just come up with a way to fight drug-resistant superbugs without antibiotics. The new approach has so far only been tested in the lab and on mice, but it could offer a potential solution to antibiotic resistance, which is now getting so bad...
by Heather Laskin | Jul 6, 2016 | Awesome, Inspiration
When Five by Five, an “innovation agency” in Paris, started going through applications for their summer fellowship program, they found letters from hundreds of brilliant applicants. There were Ph.D.’s, urban developers, data scientists, and...