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For me, the International Day for Women and Girls in Science is both a celebration and a reminder. It’s a moment to recognize the contributions of women in science and the progress we’ve made and to ...

The standout essays in Megan Marshall’s “After Lives” recall her troubled father and the fate of a high school classmate.

Long before the women who helped win the space race were depicted in the 2016 film “Hidden Figures,” women were making contributions to science that far outpaced the credit they were given for their ...

Science, a field where it is often believed that Men do it all. The discoveries, the breakthrough inventions and other ...

In the coming years, an unprecedented number of people will leave planet Earth—but it’s becoming increasingly clear that deep ...

Catalina Curceanu emphasizes the need for gender parity in science, discussing the role of women in advancing quantum ...

Princeton's John Hopfield, the 2024 Nobel Laureate in Physics, and alumnus Fei-Fei Li of the Class of 1999 were two of seven ...

Prohibited from serving with the U.S. Army as a medical officer, Barbara Stimson was commissioned by the British—and helped ...

which demonstrated for the first time that microRNA was involved in gene regulation in the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans – a finding that the Nobel Prize committee has said was "initially met ...