Kids are starting to picture scientists as women

#WOMENINSCIENCE On average, 55 percent of girls and 95 percent of boys drew scientists as male in surveys since the 1980s. That’s progress compared with the 0.6 percent (all girls) who depicted a female scientist between 1966 and 1977. Courtesy of Richard Jones and Lori Fulton/Univ. of Hawaii …

The science department at Craigslea had initially purchased a spectrophotometer in 2015 and this was the first year I worked with the technology. This was our introduction to the resource as there had previously not been a spectrophotometer within the school as these are quite expensive, therefore only …

Stephen Hawking, one of the most influential physicists of the twentieth century and perhaps the most celebrated icon of contemporary science, has died at the age of 76. The University of Cambridge confirmed that the physicist died in the early hours of 14 March at his home in Cambridge, England.

Alexandre Baril does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has … the idea of rapid-onset gender dysphoria misrepresent the quality and extent of available science and the structure of gender-affirmative therapies.

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Excellence is everywhere in science. Or that seems to be the plan: to make excellence ubiquitous in research. This month, the University of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica, became the latest academic institution to encourage its scientists to excel, setting up a Regional Centre for Research Excellence …

“Those quotes are accurate, but they are selective and do not accurately represent the entirety of the news story,” Paul Voosen, the author of the Science article, said in an email. Any uncertainty in climate modeling, he said, “is about the speed of warming — how fast sea level and temperature will rise …