While scientists were trying really hard to expand the fossil record, a young English girl was dedicated to searching through rocks on the beach. She was on the hunt for things she called ‘curiosities’ – unusually shaped bits of rock that she would sell to help support her poor family after her father died. Her name was Mary Anning. And while she didn’t […]

Vera Rubin was the American astronomer who changed the way we think of the universe.  Vera Cooper shared a bedroom with her sister in a small house in Washington, D.C. It was the early 1940s, so cars were less common, street lights were dimmer, high-rise buildings weren’t quite so high,