Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Friederike Otto, 42, is a climate scientist at Imperial College London, where she is best known for pioneering the new field of ...

Much of what keeps science accurate, ethical, and usable is done by women and girls—and because it doesn’t look like a breakthrough, it rarely counts as one. Science loves a clean story. A single mind ...

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 ...

TK Radha was a brilliant Indian physicist who earned a rare invitation from Robert Oppenheimer to conduct research at ...

Thank you to all the women who took chances and paved the way so we could forge our own paths today. This past Women’s History Month, we honored women in science by continuing our commitment to making ...

In July 2025, Uganda's courts swiftly dismissed a petition challenging the legality of polygamy, citing the protection of religious and cultural freedom. For most social scientists and policymakers ...

Usually, when you have all the biomarkers or "pathology" of a disease, that means you have the disease and will likely experience the symptoms and side effects that come with it. Here's what you need ...

Experts have long known that women are at a greater risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. They’re twice as likely to be affected as men. Now scientists say they may be on their way to understanding ...