Artist Thomas Boguszewski illustrates Rachel Bitney Wecht's story of her struggle to woo a physicist—The Story Collider's own Brian Wecht.
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Q&A With Darlene Cavalier: Cheering for Science
Darlene Cavalier, founder of Science Cheerleader and SciStarter, explains how she challenges stereotypes in science with the power of cheerleading.
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Q&A With Mariette DiChristina: Born a Scientist
Mariette DiChristina tells Double X Science about her life as editor in chief of Scientific American, expressing her femininity as a scientist, and angry letters from readers.
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I Was Schrodinger's Cat
After moving to a new city, Emma Komlos-Hrobsky decides to break the ice with the perfect Halloween costume: Schrodinger's Cat.
Read MoreQ&A With Deborah Berebichez: Seeing the World Through Physics Glasses
Over the course of The Story Collider's Women and Science issue, we'll bring you several interviews from the Double Xpression: Profiles of Women into Science series, starting with this profile of Deborah Berebichez, a physicist, author, and media personality who was the first Mexican woman to graduate with a physics PhD from Stanford University and now hosts National Geographic's Humanly Impossible. We're also releasing the Spanish-language version of Deborah's Story Collider story, "Passing On the Gift."
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Confirmation Bias & the Assessment of College Relationships
As a student, Eric Noah Feldman conducts two simultaneous experiments: one grant-funded research on the effects of gaseous nitric oxide on bees, the other on whether he and his neuroscientist girlfriend will last the summer sharing the same apartment.
Read MoreScience For Princesses
After being teased for her lack of femininity and love of math and science growing up, scientist Janet Stemwedel wages war against dumbed-down, pink "science kits for girls" on her blog. But her relationship with her own daughters leads her to question if the issue might be more complex than she thought.
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I Probably Could Have Used a Warning About PMS
From the very beginning, Lindsey Harris had a complicated relationship with her period. But when extreme PMS arrives on the scene, turning her into a "were-bitch" every month, she wonders if something might actually be wrong with her.
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Editor's Letter: Me & My Vagina
The first story that Story Collider host and producer Erin Barker ever told at the live show in Brooklyn was about her vagina. In honor of the Women and Science issue, we're re-releasing the podcast.
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Women & Science
Asked this past January what he thinks about most, Stephen Hawking answered, “Women. They are a complete mystery.” Well, we're here to enlighten the good professor in this issue of The Story Collider magazine, taking three angles on women and science: women’s health, the experience of women working in science, and women and the scientists who love them.