Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Friederike Otto, 42, is a climate scientist at Imperial College London, where she is best known for pioneering the new field of ...

Much of what keeps science accurate, ethical, and usable is done by women and girls—and because it doesn’t look like a breakthrough, it rarely counts as one. Science loves a clean story. A single mind ...

The group 500 Women Scientists was launched after the 2016 election. If young girls can be what they see in the world, then prepare for a new generation of female scientists. The visibility of women ...

TK Radha was a brilliant Indian physicist who earned a rare invitation from Robert Oppenheimer to conduct research at ...

ALBANY, New York — Tree roots have long served as a useful metaphor for articulating connections between people, places, and ideas. And yet, it’s a limited structure. In the 1980s, French philosophers ...

A group called “500 Women Scientists,” which launched an online database of female scientists in January 2018, has seen huge interest in the database, registering 7,500 women in less than a year, ...

Experts have long known that women are at a greater risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. They’re twice as likely to be affected as men. Now scientists say they may be on their way to understanding ...

The Graduate Women in Science organization Sigma Delta Epsilon has awarded its highest honor, national honorary membership, to UC Santa Cruz plant scientist Jean Langenheim in recognition of her ...

Is science biased against girls and women? This is the first of a two-part series. In this first part, I describe why the answer to this question is not quite as simple as many people seem to assume.