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Overall, participation in STEM careers activities is low, with less than 30% of UK 11- to 14-year-olds reporting having taken part in 2017.
Some climate scientists have spoken out about the dangers of climate change. But a new study shows those voices may not be very influential.
Only 13.83% of AI authors in arXiv are women and, in relative terms, the proportion of AI papers co-authored by at least one woman has not improved since the 1990s.
One of the most influential agricultural entomologists in history was an insatiably curious and fiercely independent woman named Eleanor Anne Ormerod. She never went to school - nor was she paid for her work.
Climate change isn’t just a technical challenge – it also involves ethics, social justice and cultural values. Insights from literature, philosophy and other humanities can produce better solutions.
Studying maths is likely to make you smarter and more employable.
Three classic examples of the “Mandala Effect” debunked.
Amazon’s plan to invest $700 million retraining its workforce signals very soon all jobs will be STEM jobs – and higher education needs to play a bigger role.
A scientist explains how she got a glimpse into the secret world of butterflies and her hopes of encouraging more Latinos to enter the field of science.
Mindfulness aligns itself with science and academia to be seen as credible but it lacks any real evidence.
Covering subjects from black holes to sleep science, a geophysicist explains his new course.
Poets and scientists don’t occupy separate poles in the quest to understand the universe. In many ways, they sing from the same hymn sheet.
Gravity exists because the universe is full of ‘stuff’ – here’s how it came to be.
How was superconductivity discovered? It all began in April 1911, in a Dutch laboratory…
Innovation and industry policy is receiving the least attention just when it may matter most to our economic future.
In Australia, the next government will need to meet the challenge of refreshing the social licence between science, government and the many and diverse communities that make up our nation.
Engineer, artist, mathematician, thinker: Leonardo da Vinci was all these and more.
Researchers find promising results for two programs patterned after the Meyerhoff Scholars Program, a renowned initiative launched at UMBC in the 1980s and known to increase diversity in STEM.
As Leonardo da Vinci found centuries ago, scholars of art, design, engineering and science can work together for mutual benefit.
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Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Department of Physics, University of York
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Professor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Cognitive and Parapsychology, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Open Evidence Research, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, UOC - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
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