The Girl Scouts announced today that they’re beefing up their offerings in STEM and the outdoors, adding a plethora…
OraLee Branch, a malaria researcher who began work as an assistant professor at NYU in 2008, has sued the…
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It’s familiar knowledge that women are underrepresented in the sciences. Despite the fact that girls express equal…
Molecular biologist Jason Lieb has resigned from his professorship at the University of Chicago after the university…
On Monday, the National Science Foundation doubled-down on its commitment to eradicating sexual harassment and…
On January 14, Eric S. Lander published an article in the journal Cell celebrating the “heroes” of CRISPR-Cas9, a…
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In 2013, paleontologist Lee Berger led an all-female team of excavators in a trip into a small chamber in a South…
A group of six very cool Russian women have locked themselves in a fake space ship in an attempt to study what an…
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Good news if you’ve been waiting around for a movie about the life of Marie Curie—and haven’t we all, really?
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Today's Google Doodle celebrates Maria Mitchell, the first female astronomer in the U.S. who discovered a comet in 1847. (Be sure and read about her fascinating life... dome parties?) Just last week, the Doodle honored molecular biologist Rosalind Franklin. Yay lady scientists!
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Early this morning, astronaut and physicist Sally Ride passed away after a 61-year-long life of exploration,…
In what could be described as tongue-chewingly awful affront to both women and science, the EU Commission — the…
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