Remembering Ben Barres, the trailblazing trans neuroscientist and mentor, on his birthday
This past Tuesday, September 13th, was Ben Barres’s birthday. He would’ve been 67. We took the occasion to remember his legacy of kindness and mentorship towards his students and other scientists. Documenting the lives of scientists who have made bigger impacts than they’ve been given credit for is Massive’s bread-and-butter. This Weekend’s Reads is a collection of our latest batch of heroes. More to come.
Meet Valerie Thomas, the inventor and scientist who launched the longest-running satellite imaging Earth’s surface
During Thomas’s three-decade career at NASA, she connected scientists with the data they need to understand our planet.
Meet Nancy Grace Roman, the “mother” of the Hubble Space Telescope
She discovered fundamental truths about stars and galaxies, and also shaped NASA into what we know it as today.
0.1% Zine: Genomics x Identity
We teamed up with NAVEL to create a zine that focuses on how genomics can inform identity. Through essays, conversations, and artistic works, this zine explores race, risks and reparations in the post-genomic era, the heritability of our political beliefs, genetic privacy, and more.
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Meet Vera Rubin, the stargazer who predicted dark matter
From childhood, she preferred ‘to stay up and watch the stars than go to sleep.’
Meet Gerty Cori, the Nobel-winning biochemist who uncovered how the body stores and consumes sugars
Cori’s work determined glycogen storage “disease” had several subtypes, each with a unique molecular cause