Girls and Women in Science

I am an expert in spiders

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Answer explanation

Maydianne Andrade is an ecologist who loves spiders!

Mary Anning discovered...

• X-Rays

• Dinosaurs we didn't know existed

• 100 new kinds of fish

Answer explanation

Mary Anning was one of 10 children, and was very poor when she grew up.

She is now one of Britain's most well-known palaeontologists.

Fei-Fei Li is helping make computers that...

• think like humans

• make a cup of tea

• never run out of battery

Answer explanation

Computers thinking like we do is called artificial intelligence.

Marie Curie was a physics expert.

What does physics mean?

• What everything is made of

• How plants work

• Maths

Answer explanation

The X Rays we can have today are all because of what Marie Curie and her colleagues discovered.

Maggie Aderin-Pocock studies space.

What is the word for somebody who knows all about space?

• Astronomer

• Astronaut

• Space Invader

Answer explanation

The first British astronaut was Helen Sharman, in 1963.