women in science

Divers with a global nonprofit network of Black ocean scientists and marine enthusiasts, joined a University of Miami's program to plant nursery-grown corals along the Florida Reef Tract as it experiences a prolonged heat wave. But the work is 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…