Dr. Jess Wade is a physicist at Imperial College London who’s made it her mission to write and update the... more

Dr. Nancy Hopkins, a molecular biologist who made major discoveries in cancer genetics, became an unlikely activist in her early... more

“The only time I ever saw something that I thought was abnormal…there was a human arm in the refrigerator,” said... more

When Laura J. Martin decided to write a history of ecological restoration, she didn’t think she would have to go... more

In our final episode, we explore Dorothy Andersen’s legacy — what she left behind and how her work has lived... more

The missing portrait of Dr. Andersen takes us on a journey into the perils of memorialization and who gets to... more

Our associate producer, Sophie McNulty, rummages through boxes in a Connecticut basement, looking for clues to Dorothy Andersen’s life story.... more

A few important things have happened in the three years since we first aired The Pathologist in the Basement, the... more

When poet Jessy Randall started researching the lives of female scientists she became angry. And we certainly can relate here... more

“We were each put on earth to torment the other,” says cognitive scientist Steven Pinker of Elizabeth Bates, a psychologist... more