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As you can see by these profiles, a universal constant amongst science ladies is a need for hairties.

What better way to celebrate Women’s History Month than by celebrating these amazing and accomplished women of science, brought to you by Lauren Goldberg (aka Auberg Designs on Etsy). 

Each necklace sports the profile (or cameo) of a different woman who pioneered science in her own way. Available in silver, copper, or bronze with different finishes. So many phenomenal women, I can’t choose just one! 

Annie Jump Cannon - astronomer

Caroline Herschel - astronomer

Heddy Lamar - inventor/actress

Ada Lovelace - programmer

Grace Hopper - programmer

Jane Goodall - primatologist

Marie Curie - chemist/physicist

Hypatia of Alexandria - mathematician

Sophie Germain - mathematician

Sally Ride - astronaut

Maud Menten - chemist

Lisa Meitner - physicist

BONUS: In honor of Women’s History Month, they are all on sale through the end of March.

- Summer

Day 2 of our mushroom lab: running our sample through a DEAE-Sepharose column

Small changes add up to big results. You can activate the movement. 

Tune into the livestream for the United State of Women Summit 6/14 here . GIF by Tumblr Creatr Thoka Maer

The Extraordinary Iridescent Details of Peacock Feathers Captured Under a Microscope

Ooh, I love fluorescent compounds! It's a great reward for the long process of synthesis.

How incredible is this compound I made??! It’s an NBD amine, which is fluorescent and used for labeling compounds for fluorescence assays.

The cellular structure of wood as seen through a Victorian microscope. (via)

‘BLOOD LAMP’ Mike Thompson, an artist based in Amsterdam, wanted to design a piece that forced people to think about the cost of the power they use. So he made a lamp lit with the user’s blood. His “Blood Lamp” glows thanks to a reaction with luminol, a molecule used in police forensics that gives off electric blue light when exposed to an iron-rich protein in blood called hemoglobin. Iron atoms catalyze the oxidation of luminol, creating a high-energy, unstable peroxide molecule that releases energy as blue light as it relaxes to its low-energy ground state. After the user adds blood and the reaction consumes all of the luminol, the light fades, and the lamp can never be used again.

Credit: Mike Thompson

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