Friederike Otto, 42, is a climate scientist at Imperial College London, where she is best known for pioneering the new field of attribution science, in which researchers calculate in real time how ...

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 ...

Melissa Cline, a project scientist at UCSC’s Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering (CBSE), has been chosen to receive the 2014 Ellen Weaver Award for mentoring young women in science. The ...

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 ...

In The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science, author Dava Sobel celebrates the many women who came to Paris to work with Marie Curie after she won the 1903 ...

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.

In a momentous event that underscores the vital role of women in scientific research throughout Sub-Saharan Africa, 30 brilliant young scientists have been honoured at the 16th edition of the ...

Maria Mitchell, the first widely recognized American woman scientist, gained international acclaim after discovering a comet in 1847. As Vassar College’s first astronomy professor, she advanced ...

Usually, when you have all the biomarkers or "pathology" of a disease, that means you have the disease and will likely experience the symptoms and side effects that come with it. Here's what you need ...

Across the world, women consistently outlive men, a pattern that shows up in national life expectancy tables, hospital wards, and even nursing homes. Now a wave of new research is sharpening the ...