Meet Stephanie Kwolek, the woman who gave us bulletproof vests and yoga pants
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Maria Kirch was the first woman to discover a comet, but her husband took the credit
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There was so much more to Rachel Carson beyond 'Silent Spring'
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Meet Jocelyn Bell Burnell, the astrophysicist who first noticed pulsars
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Meet the barrier-breaking physicist hunting gravity with lasers
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Five facts about Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space
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Meet the botanist who made sugarcane sweeter and snuck a squirrel into England
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