US kids’ doodles of scientists reveal changing gender stereotypes

To investigate how children’s drawings have changed, a team of psychology researchers combined and analysed the results of 78 “draw-a-scientist” studies that examined doodles made between 1966 and 2016 (see ‘Sketching scientists‘). Together, these analyses have asked more than 20,000 US kids …

People in the science social media world were furious because, although the articlewas directed at Yammine (or Science Sam, as she is known online), they felt like their work to provide a behind-the-scenes, accessible view of science was being undervalued. Some communicators felt like the piece could …

Chinese leaders released plans last week to expand the powers of the country’s science and technology ministry (MOST). The beefed-up agency will continue to oversee science policy and major projects, but will take on extra responsibilities for funding research grants and for recruiting foreign scientists.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s administration released its 2018 budget on 27 February and scientists couldn’t be happier. It includes almost Can$4 billion (US$3.1 billion) in new funding for science over the next five years, a significant portion of which will go to the country’s three granting …

The EPA should rely on science that is “very objective, very transparent and very open,” Pruitt said in a March 13 interview with Bloomberg News, casting his concern as focused on third-party research in which findings are published but the underlying data and methodology aren’t open for scrutiny.

Following the panel, Elizabeth Marincola, senior adviser for communications and advocacy for the African Academy of Sciences, moderated a Q&A. Salovey noted that the number of scientific articles published with authors from more than one country has increased markedly in the past two decades, …

You are an early-career scientist poised to publish a paper that you think will be your big break. It describes your imaginative hypothesis — a potential scientific insight with substantial implications — along with the experiments you designed and constructed, and the carefully documented data that support …

Its mission is to understand the links between a planet’s chemistry and its environment, says Giovanna Tinetti, a planetary scientist at University College London and principal investigator for the mission. So far, exoplanet probes have mainly focused on finding new planets and measuring their sizes, …