Youyou vs. Malaria
In 2015, Tu Youyou received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine “for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against… Read More
Youyou vs. Malaria
The World’s Deadliest Animal
The female mosquito is the world’s deadliest animal, responsible for 725k to 1m deaths each year. They spread diseases such… Read More
Meet the World’s First Coder
In 1843, Ada Lovelace published what is considered the first computer algorithm, designed for Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine, making her… Read More
Unrepeatable
The first person to win two Nobel Prizes was a woman, Marie Curie. She won in Physics (1903) and Chemistry… Read More
This Oil isn’t Slippy
OPEC was founded in 1960 by Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela. At the time, these five countries held… Read More
Wrapped in Regret
Packaging plastics account for about 3% of global greenhouse gas emissions – which is equivalent to producing roughly 1.8 billion… Read More