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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Molecular biologist Jason Lieb has resigned from his professorship at the University of Chicago after the university…
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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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In what could be described as tongue-chewingly awful affront to both women and science, the EU Commission — the…