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There’s new evidence that gender stereotypes of scientists are changing. Researchers looked at drawings of scientists made by more than 20,000 children…
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There is a long and troubling history of science – or at least pseudoscience – being used to justify racism and discrimination. The nineteenth century…
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Cindy Voisine grew up in Fort Kent, Maine – a small town with a strong French Canadian influence. Her family is bilingual, and she was the first in her…
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Scientific journals don’t track the gender of their authors. That made it that much trickier for University of Washington psychology professor Ione Fine…
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MIT is the latest in a string of prestigious universities to reveal ties to slavery that go back to the founding of the institution. The information comes…
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It’s not every day that protests actually change people’s minds. In fact, social scientists say it’s pretty rare. But that’s exactly what happened a year…
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It’s no secret that there are deep social and political divides in the U.S. What’s less clear, is what is driving the polarization.Carol Graham has spent…