A high school student learns some uncomfortable truths about herself after her science project turns deadly.
Read MoreHow to Pronounce Death
As a medical student, Matthew Pantell learns a real-life lesson medical school couldn't prepare him for: how to pronounce someone dead.
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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.
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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From the Orphanage to the Lab
Tom Haines went from a childhood spent in an orphanage during the 1930s and '40s to the head of the biochemistry department at City College, where he'd leave a lasting mark. All it took was a fly, a piano, and a little protozoan algae.
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Our Audience Is (Not) Science
At our second-year anniversary show last Tuesday we wanted to hear stories from the audience. The evening was about twisted and unorthodox paths to careers in science, so we handed out slips that asked, "If you're a scientist, how did you get into it? If you're not, why not?" We got an amazing response, and couldn't possibly read all the answers from the stage. So, as promised at the event, here are all the answers we received.
Read MoreLove & Quantum Mechanics
Story Collider Founder and Producer Brian Wecht explains how he ended up becoming a physicist instead of a composer. Here's a hint: It all started with a girl.
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Working in the Shadow of the Bomb
Story Collider Founder and Producer Ben Lillie reveals the secret ritual every theoretical high-energy physicist must go through, a ritual that brought him to a 7-Eleven parking lot on a chilly March night five years ago.
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What Science Owes the Rodeo
The ratio of scientists to cattle in Runge, Texas, is one to thousands, Shelley DuBois writes. That one scientist is her father. In this remarkable tribute, Shelley tells the story of how her father went from wrangling cattle in the South Texas desert to researching cancer and traveling the world.
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Owning My Narrative
As a black woman who grew up in urban L.A., LaTisha Hammond struggles to accept the fact that her background is different from that of her fellow marine biology students—and her inspiration for her work doesn't feel as worthy as their Jacques Cousteau dreams.
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Editor's Letter: I Am Science. Well, You Are, Anyway...
This month, as part of The Story Collider's two-year anniversary, we're featuring #IAmScience—stories of people's twisted and unexpected paths to lives in science. Story Collider magazine editor Erin Barker, who definitely did not expect to be working on science stories, shares her #IAmScience story.
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A Lesson in Rocketry
Marie-Claire Shanahan has always wanted to be a science teacher, and her science outreach program has been very successful. But when she and her colleagues journey to Kashechewan, an isolated First Nation community in northern Canada, she learns an important lesson that will change her as an educator forever.
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