Protective policies, health insurance, and community are all important variables when gender-diverse scientists ask, “Where ...

Is there anything you’d like to add? Traveling so much has been very tough for raising a family. Pilots bid for trips and ...

The Department of Commerce’s new scientific-integrity policy retains references to objectivity, transparency, and scientific ...

This image shows a faint nebula surrounding a star in the northern constellation Cygnus. Created by amateur Peter Goodhew, it ...

See also the upcoming interview with Jennifer’s pilot husband, Matthew Inman.

In a little-known paper published in 1896, Emil Fischer—the German chemist who would go on to win the 1902 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for synthesizing sugars and caffeine—said his laboratory had ...

New York Times: A long-standing conspiracy theory suggests that the condensation trails that form behind planes as they fly at high altitudes are actually “chemtrails” produced by aircraft spraying ...

On 1 November 1929, Marie Curie spent her evening at the Plaza Hotel in New York. In her only public appearance in the city, she was scheduled as the guest of honor to address the third annual dinner ...

In 1794 the London printer J. Cooper published an essay by a woman writing under the name Mrs. Fulhame. Elizabeth Fulhame’s An Essay on Combustion, with a view to a new art of dy[e]ing and painting: ...

In the August issue of Physics Today, climate scientists Toby Ault and Scott St. George share a pair of startling research findings. Between roughly 800 and 1500 CE, the American West suffered a ...

Serious public communication blunders by Metropolitan Edison, the power company that owned the infamous nuclear facility, created mistrust and allowed misinformation to flourish. At 10:00am on 29 ...

Vodka for sale at a liquor store. Great thinkers in science often become associated with myths about their work and discoveries. Take Isaac Newton. The average person might not be able to recall his ...