STEMinists
Born in Poland, this groundbreaking scientist conducted pioneering research on radioactivity, discovered polonium and radium—and became the first woman and only individual to win a Nobel Prize in two scientific fields.
Who is Marie Curie?
In this spud-tacular book written by Andy Weir (and adapted into a movie), Mark Watney gets stranded on Mars where he uses his wit and ingenuity to survive while he awaits rescue.
What is The Martian?
A region in space where gravity is so strong that not even light can escape. Its boundary is known as the event horizon.
What is a blackhole?
These flying mammals use echolocation to navigate in the dark and play a crucial role in controlling insect populations.
What are bats?
This spiral-shaped bacterium is a leading cause of diarrhea worldwide, often linked to undercooked poultry and unpasteurized milk.
What is Campylobacter?
Her groundbreaking X-ray crystallography images helped reveal the double-helix structure of DNA, though credit for the discovery eluded her during her lifetime.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
Released in 1979, a Xenomorph terrorizes crewmembers of the Nostromo after they investigate a distress signal from a wrecked alien vessel on another planet.
What is Alien?
These celestial clouds of gas and dust serve as both the birthplaces and graveyards of stars. The Orion one is among the most famous.
What are nebulas?
Crawfish, the delicious additions to a seafood boil, are subversively not fish, but instead classified as this subgroup of arthropods.
What are crustaceans?
This heavy metal was found in a hemorrhoid cream that was purchased overseas that lead to an unusual death in California recently.
What is lead?
This 19th-century mathematician is celebrated as the first computer programmer for her work on Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, where she envisioned how machines could process not just numbers but also complex ideas like music.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
This Aldous Huxley novel is set in World State London AF 632 where citizens are bred through artificial wombs and raised in an intelligence-based social hierarchy.
What is Brave New World?
This spectral entity, classified as a G2V star, undergoes hydrogen fusion via the proton-proton chain reaction, producing neutrinos and electromagnetic radiation.
What is The Sun?
These photoreceptors are more active in low light conditions and concentrated in the outer regions of the retina for peripheral vision coverage.
What are rods?
This virus, spread by Aedes mosquitoes, is known for causing fever, severe joint pain, and its nickname, "breakbone fever.
What is Dengue?
In 1983, she became the first American woman to travel to space aboard the Challenger, inspiring generations of astronauts to follow in her footsteps.
Who is Sally Ride?
Timothee Chalamet and Casey Affleck play the son of an astronaut who travels through a wormhole in search of an alternative planet for humans to colonize in this 2014 film.
What is Interstellar?
This ice giant, discovered in 1846, boasts the strongest winds in the solar system, reaching speeds of over 1,200 mph. It has a deep blue hue due to methane in its atmosphere and completes a single orbit around the Sun roughly every 165 Earth years.
What is Neptune?
Unless substituted for wood, ivory, or gold, the adult human has this many teeth (including wisdom teeth).
What are 32?
This rodent-borne virus can lead to serious respiratory illness, first recognized in the Four Corners region of the U.S. in 1993.
What is Hantavirus?
She was a mathematician and physicist who calculated flight paths for NASA, ensuring safe space missions—including John Glenn’s historic orbit of Earth.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
In The Last of Us, this parasitic fungal genus takes a terrifying turn, evolving beyond its usual insect-hosting habits to create a zombie-like pandemic.
What is Cordyceps?
Launched in 2021, this cutting-edge infrared telescope peers deep into the universe, revealing never-before-seen details of distant galaxies, exoplanets, and the early cosmos. It boasts a massive gold-coated primary mirror spanning 6.5 meters.
What is the James Webb Space Telescope?
This element, with atomic number 46, belongs to the platinum group and is widely used in catalytic converters to reduce vehicle emissions.
What is Palladium?
This metabolic disorder that is can be discovered during the newborn screening process causes what is widely known as the “bubble-boy” disease, first discovered in a boy named David Vetter.
What is Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID)?