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Maria Mitchell, the first widely recognized American woman scientist, gained international acclaim after discovering a comet ...

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The Mayan Languages Preservation and Digitization Project promotes tools designed by and for Indigenous communities, like ...

An anthropologist highlights the revolutionary role of the practice, which was often led by women, and was just as crucial to ...