Women in STEM

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1,000 Gs to the Skull: How Woodpeckers Avoid Concussions

Woodpeckers hit with 1,000 G’s, 10x what it takes to concuss a human. The Nature Educator explains how these birds have evolved powerful adaptations: compact brains that reduce sloshing on impact, and skull structures that help absorb the shock.
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100 Trillion Neutrinos Just Passed Through You

Did you know 100 trillion neutrinos fly through your body per second? Astrophysicist Erika Hamden unpacks why neutrinos matter in astroparticle physics, and how they help us understand the universe beyond visible light.
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AI Remembers Everything. Should It?

AI remembers everything, but should its memory be more selective? Humans remember selectively, forget naturally, and assign emotional weight to key moments; today’s AI logs data indiscriminately.
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Are You Made of Hydrogen from the Big Bang?

Astrophysicist Erika Hamden breaks down how the hydrogen in your body was likely formed within the first 20 minutes after the Big Bang.
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How Beavers Build Entire Ecosystems

Beavers don’t just build dams, they build entire ecosystems. The Nature Educator shows how these incredible engineers transform entire landscapes by creating wetlands.
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Saturn Could Float in Water! Here’s Why

Saturn is the only planet in our solar system that could float in water. Astrophysicist Erika Hamden breaks down how its composition, 96% hydrogen and 4% helium, makes it lighter than water, with a density of just 0.68 g/cm³.
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Making Space Accessible for Everyone 🚀

Meet Shelia Xu, the first Deaf Asian American female pilot and an advocate with AstroAccess. From spacecraft and stations to rovers, she pushes for accessibility to be built in from the start, ensuring space exploration is truly for everyone.
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NASA's Suni Williams on 9 Unexpected Months in Space

"I only promised my husband a week to walk the dogs…” NASA astronaut Suni Williams spent 9.5 months in space after a malfunction, but she never felt stranded.
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Tardigrades Up Close: Microscopic Life Revealed

How can you observe tardigrades? You take a look at moss: their natural habitat! Our friend Chloé Savard took a look and found tardigrades from two genera: Milnesium and Macrobiotus.
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How the Moon Formed in a Day

The worst day on Earth may have given us the Moon. Astrophysicist Erika Hamden breaks down the giant impact theory, which suggests an object the size of Mars collided with early Earth, liquefying the surface and launching debris that formed the Moon, all...
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Do You Owe Robots Respect?

Bioethicist, President and CEO of The Hastings Center Vardit Ravitsky unpacks the ethical dilemmas around artificial intelligence. If AI can reason, learn, and act on its own, do we need to rethink what makes us human?
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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Shrinking

Astrophysicist Erika Hamden explains how images from the Hubble Space Telescope show the iconic anticyclone in Jupiter’s southern hemisphere getting smaller since the 1990s.
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Nature Isn’t a Resource—It’s a Gift | Robin Wall Kimmerer

Robin Wall Kimmerer, botanist and author of “Braiding Sweetgrass”, shares how Indigenous science teaches that gratitude and reciprocity are not only cultural values, but regenerative ecological strategies.
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Gold vs Diamonds: Which Is Rarer and Why?

Diamonds or gold? Astrophysicist ‪Erika Hamden‬ breaks it down: Diamonds are made of carbon, one of the most common elements in the universe. Gold is forged in incredibly rare events like neutron star collisions.
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Why Time Is Strange on Venus

On Venus, every day is your birthday, thanks to some wild planetary physics. The planet spins backward, and so slowly that one day lasts 243 Earth days. But a year on Venus? Just 225 Earth days.