She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
A self-described "little farm girl" in the Jim Crow Era, Gladys West's complex and pioneering work for the U.S. Navy helped ...
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Primordial black holes could rewrite our understanding of dark matter and the early universe. A record-breaking detection at ...
Dr Gladys West, the mathematician whose work laid the foundations for modern GPS and GNSS technology, has died at the age of ...
For years, the James Webb Space Telescope has been spotting enormous black holes in the early universe that defy all ...
Combining observations from several powerful telescopes, astronomers have detected a gargantuan, 'wobbling' black hole ...
The findings are a big clue as to why the far and near hemispheres of the moon look so different.