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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The field of science remains male-dominated, with some sectors being more so than others. One such sector is cryosphere science, or the science of the frozen parts of the Earth. Global efforts have ...

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 ...

There's something uniquely frustrating about the world of scientific discovery. We celebrate the names we know, the heroes ...

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.