women in science

Marine life has been experiencing a prolonged heat wave with no end in sight. Divers with BIMS, a global nonprofit network of Black ocean scientists and marine enthusiasts, joined the University of Miami's Rescue a Reef program to plant nursery-grown corals along the Florida Reef Tract. But for them, this work is about more than corals; it's also about Black representation in marine science.

Melanie Fernandez just graduated high school — but she’s already racked up hundreds of hours working in university research labs and helped identify a new development in the study of Alzheimer’s. And the aspiring biomedical engineer says she’s just getting started.

On the morning of July 16, dozens of technicians and flight controllers piled into the firing room at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to count down the launch…