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

This story is part of our November 2019 special issue of National Geographic magazine, “Women: A Century of Change.” Read more stories here. “I have something to tell you.” I was ready to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ask children to do the same drawing today, and close to a third of the pictures would be of women ... It found that children now are increasingly likely to depict a scientist as a woman.

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, ...

To ensure they get the full credit and exposure they deserve, here are 20 famous women scientists who changed the world. The recipient of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics, Donna Strickland is a ...