Following graduate school, Sarah Carter headed to Washington, DC to carve out a career in science policy.

The study says female scientists are approaching parity with their male counterparts — and in some cases actually have a leg up on their competition.

Female scientists played important roles in the Manhattan Project that created the first atomic bomb during World War II. But you wouldn’t know this from the blockbuster movie, “Oppenheimer ...

The article says "date" and lab partner" were meant to weed out attraction from aesthetic appeal. They theorized women would ...

This year’s event, in partnership with Northwell’s Katz Institute for Women’s Health, featured an array of voices discussing the state of women’s health now and in the future.

Hoping to bring the giant, ancient animal back from extinction, scientists have created a far smaller woolly creature. Woolly mice have some of the key traits of mammoths, including their thick ...

A neighbor’s call to the police on a young Black girl for spraying lanternflies sparked discourse around the dangers of adultifying Black children and weaponizing the police. A Yale tour led by Black ...

Evelyn Cheesman had 200 insects named after her, got trapped in a giant spider's web and accidently sent a poisoned spear to King George V. But as a female scientist, Evelyn Cheesman, from ...

Chinese scientist He Jiankui was jailed after gene-editing human embryos to make babies immune to HIV. Now he’s out and — he claims — back on the tools.

Followers also noted the power that images of female scientist had in helping with impostor syndrome and alleviating the loneliness of being a woman in a STEM field. But there was a downside, too.

In the three months she has been director of Brookhaven National Laboratory — where she will oversee construction of the lab's "crown jewel," a new atom-smashing supercollider — JoAnne Hewett ...