Charles Drew discovered that there was a possibility of storing blood plasma for up to two months or more. An yet, it is popularly told and even transcribed in fiction, such as M*A*S*H TV series, that Drew would have died due to a refusal of a blood transfusion because of his skin color. (Read more...)

The Human Genome Project, an effort of international research to determine the sequence of the DNA of the human genome, missed out many variables from the genomes of Africans. (Read more...)

The street in front of the building had already been named "Hidden Figures Way", in tribute to Jackson and all the women who devoted their lives to the American space program. (Read more...)

Kizzy is part of a team of researchers who in early 2020 helped to develop an mRNA-based vaccine for Covid-19 in collaboration with the biotech firm Moderna. (Read more...)

From September the 12th to September the 20th in 1992, Mae Jemison was the science mission specialist on the STS-47 Spacelab-J flight. (Read more...)

In April 2021, the President of the United States of America, Joe Biden, nominated Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe to the post of Director of the Office of Science at the US Energy Department. (Read more...)

Imafidon combats the lack of women in science by focusing on diversity and getting more girls into science career, through Stemettes, the company she co-founded and is CEO of. (Read more...)

Dr. Gladys Mae West has been recognized as the mathematician who laid the groundwork to invent the GPS, due to her contributions to the mathematical modeling of the shape of the Earth and her work on the development of the satellite geodesy models that have been incorporated into the GPS system. (Read more...)

Turner's visionary ideas about animal intelligence did not resonate in the field during his lifetime. (Read more...)

Woods registered close to 60 patents in his lifetime, including a telephone transmitter, a trolley wheel and the multiplex telegraph in which he defeated Thomas Edison's lawsuit. (Read more...)