Ahead of International Day of Women and Girls in Science that falls on February 11, Dr Yamuna Krishnan reflects on concerns ...

DNA analysis suggests Iron Age societies in Britain were built around women rather than men.

Scientists analyzing 2,000-year-old DNA have revealed that a Celtic society in the southern U.K. during the Iron Age was centered around women, a study said.

The discovery is linked to "matrilocality," a social system where a married couple lives with or near the wife's parents ...

In the heart of the Manu Biosphere Reserve, one of the most biodiverse places on the planet, a group of young and talented women are making a difference in the field of science and conservation.

Female mosquitoes are targeted because only they bite and drink blood, thereby spreading diseases such as malaria and dengue ...

Presumably Campbell is on firmer ground elsewhere — in noting, for instance, the difficulties that women scientists faced in Germany, including fights for pay, lab space and recognition ...

Experts have found women could be more likely to binge drink at certain times in their menstrual cycle, due to the peak in sex hormones. Experiments found that the female hormone oestrogen ...

A new study suggests that it would behoove scientists to be modest. It found that laypeople who perceived scientists as ...

A study, published in the Environmental Biology of Fishes on Dec. 4, has revealed that male sharks embrace their romantic partners by diving their teeth into a fin to begin fornication. Footage, ...

The fact that she was a young female astronomer pushing against the status quo at a time when all academic experts in astronomy were men heightened tensions. Today, Payne’s graduate thesis ...

Scientists have recognized that redheads also experience pleasure differently. A study from the University of Hamburg found that redheaded women have the highest orgasm rate of all hair colors (at ...