Japan is the only country in the world that legally requires married couples to share the same family name — and that creates ...

"That's why we study this." Women scientists break 'ice ceiling' in cutting-edge field: 'Trying to make science open for ...

Women have long contributed meaningful scientific discoveries to the field of astronomy; however, men have primarily dominated the vocation. As of 2019, women earn about 40 percent of the Ph.D.s ...

Though women are underrepresented in astronomy, they've made some significant contributions to the field. Tracy Caldwell Dyson, a chemist and NASA astronaut, looks at Earth from the International ...

An asteroid has been named after 19th century astronomer Annie Walker, Cambridge’s first professional female astronomer.

Author: BARBARA SPECTOR, p.20 The good news for women astronomers is that their numbers are increasing, according to a recent survey of members of the Washington, D.C.-based American Astronomical ...

Trump Administration The Rewriting of a Pioneering Female Astronomer’s Legacy Shows How Far Trump’s DEI Purge Will Go The federal webpage for an observatory named for the late astronomer Vera ...

Scientists long considered ADHD “almost exclusively as a boy disorder,” wrote Kaelyn Lynch in a January 2024 story about the unprecedented rise in ADHD diagnoses among women—which she notes ...

Meet Williamina Fleming, a 19th-century Scottish maid who became an astronomer Fleming made major scientific discoveries and belonged to the Harvard Computers, a team of women who processed ...

The Female Astronomers Hidden by Science's Male Elite . Robin McKie The Guardian September 2, 2024 Smithsonian ... Eighty-five years ago, several dozen eminent astronomers posed for a photograph ...

Astronomers are expressing disappointment and alarm as the federally-funded Rubin Observatory altered the biography of renowned astronomer Vera Rubin, for whom the facility is named, on its website.

Cecilia Payne deduced that the sun is mainly made of hydrogen - but was encouraged to downplay her findings by her PhD supervisor. Mike Sutton takes up the story ...