Readers discuss an unsung scientist, a mutant bacterium named Chonkus, Science News’ new look

Life of the party Margaret S. Collins, the first Black female entomologist in the United States to earn a Ph.D., overcame racism and sexism to become a field biologist and termite expert, life sciences writer Susan Milius reported in “Termite Pioneer.” “I had the honor of knowing [Margaret S. Collins] in the early 1990s, when […]