I have a trans flag flying from my house but I completely understand concerns by women that they’re being set back 60 years if someone born a biological man starts setting female swimming or boxing records. Women have their own sports because we turned scientific differences into policy. It created fairness. If you’re in a…

Share In Kolsa, Tadoba, India, photographer Anirudh Laxmipathy catches the blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment that a powerful tigress named Kuwani lunges at an unsuspecting wild boar. At age 14, Kuwani still boasts impressive hunting skills and the boar doesn’t stand a chance. Laxmipathy’s stunning image (seen above) took Special Mention honors in the Animal Behavior category of…

Credit: Adam Gault/OJO Images via Getty Researchers who are accused of sexual misconduct start to receive fewer citations after the media covers the allegations. But the same cannot be said about scientists publicly accused of scientific fraud, whose citations remain unchanged, according to an analysis published this week in PLoS ONE1. In the wake of…

The number of women now entering science, technology, engineering and mathematics and medicine (STEMM) careers is growing at a faster rate than that of men. And although women still account for only about 35% of the STEMM workforce, research has shown that they are more likely to excel when given access to mentoring, support and…

We’ve seen the headlines: on 14 February, the US Department of Education ruled that race-based scholarships and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programmes violate civil-rights law. Universities that don’t dismantle these programmes risk losing federal funding. This is not an abstract threat. It is an orchestrated effort to erase decades of progress — the very…

We’ve seen the headlines: on 14 February, the US Department of Education ruled that race-based scholarships and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programmes violate civil-rights law. Universities that don’t dismantle these programmes risk losing federal funding. This is not an abstract threat. It is an orchestrated effort to erase decades of progress — the very…

Environmental inspiration: Fong finds art in science, works inspired by nature Published 6:00 am Tuesday, March 4, 2025 By JAMES SLOAN Rogue Valley Times 1 of 4 Artist Paula Fong works on an art piece filled with leaves that was inspired by the heavy snowfall in January. (Jamie Lusch for the Rogue Valley Times) Paula…

PubMed, a free-to-use index of life-science articles, is maintained by the US National Center for Biotechnology Information.Credit: Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/Shutterstock A temporary outage of the US-government-funded PubMed database of biomedical literature over the weekend sent many researchers globally into a panic. Although the disruption does not seem to have been deliberate, and the service has…

Credit: photos777/Getty China’s highest court has called for a crack down on the activities of paper mills, businesses that churn out fraudulent or poor-quality manuscripts and sell authorships. Some researchers are cautiously optimistic that the court’s guidance will help curb the use of these services, while others think the impact will be minimal. “This is…