Across the world, women consistently outlive men, a pattern that shows up in national life expectancy tables, hospital wards, ...

The WISE initiative is coordinated nationally by the UWI Faculty of Science & Technology (FST UWI-Mona), a long-standing ...

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 ...

Ten great stories about 10 forgotten female scientists that we hope will inspire middle school readers to pursue their own ...

Joshua Lederberg, Nobel laureate and president of Rockefeller University, is well known in biology circles. Not so his wife, Dr. Esther Lederberg – whose name was drowned in the annals of the history ...

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 ...

The daily ritual of imbibing a hot cup of freshly brewed and fragrant coffee isn't just good for the soul – it may be one of the ways to smooth the road to healthy aging for women. In a study of ...

The Smithsonian’s portraits of women scientists give us a glimpse into the lives that helped shape modern discovery. Each portrait captures how the women went about bringing change in the science ...

KUWAIT CITY, Nov 29: Two Kuwaiti female researchers have been named winners of the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Middle ...

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 ...

Sindhu Jagadamma, associate professor of soil science at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture, has received the Women in Science Mentoring Award, given by the American Society of ...