Chinese cryptography expert Wang Xiaoyun was among five outstanding women scientists honored at the 2025 L'Oreal-UNESCO For ...

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The world’s top female scientists in 2022 have been named in a ranking drawn up by science research portal Research.com. A total of 1,000 researchers around the world appear in the first edition ...

And it now gets used ... Can you name a famous scientist? If you answered with the name of a male scientist, Aussie researchers reckon that’s partly because female scientists are almost entirely ...

So what is behind this effective invisibility of women scientists in our media ... It is not easy — a famous female professor recently admitted to me that she still gets palpitations when ...

Marie Curie is one of the most famous women in science ... And, despite their best intentions, many campaigns to highlight women scientists can be reductionist, cynical and boring — celebrating ...

Physicist Jess Wade is filling a major gap in knowledge after finding that Wikipedia – known for its information on every topic imaginable – had few biographies for top female scientists.

Kristi Anseth and Leslie Leinwand were named as 2 of the top women scientists in the world by research.com. In the true BioFrontiers spirit, they have also collaborated together for ~20 years, ...

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