In its fourth edition, the initiative will award two $15,000 grants to support Caribbean women researchers in STEM fields ...

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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 ...

Women Live 13% Longer Than Men, and Scientists Just Found Out Why ...

It’s part science club, part mentorship program and part launchpad for the next generation of women in Science, Technology, ...

Gardening as we know it today didn’t evolve by accident. Many of the practices that we take for granted, like organic methods, ecological planting, and even how we observe plants, were shaped by women ...

Female mammals have long thought to be born with all the eggs they would ever have, but new research is challenging that consensus ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. Academics have long referred to their field as a leaky pipeline — ...

A new study reveals that a protein associated with Parkinson’s disease could be key to understanding why roughly two-thirds of Alzheimer’s cases occur in women. Researchers at the Mayo Clinic in the U ...

Why has the science of sex differences become one of the most controversial topics in modern research? Steve Stewart-Williams ...

The start of a reproductive revolution? A novel technique to “rejuvenate” human eggs may dramatically improve IVF success rates in older women, scientists say. “We have been able to achieve the first ...

With her clear blue eyes and slightly nervous gaze, the reconstructed bust of Mos'anne—a woman who lived around 10,500 years ago—is uncannily lifelike. Reborn via a close partnership between science ...