Gardening as we know it today didn’t evolve by accident. Many of the practices that we take for granted, like organic methods, ecological planting, and even how we observe plants, were shaped by women ...

In July 2025, Uganda's courts swiftly dismissed a petition challenging the legality of polygamy, citing the protection of religious and cultural freedom. For most social scientists and policymakers ...

Analysis of more than 2,500 science stories revealed that men were quoted more often than women, highlighting systemic gender ...

The Smithsonian’s portraits of women scientists give us a glimpse into the lives that helped shape modern discovery. Each portrait captures how the women went about bringing change in the science ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. Academics have long referred to their field as a leaky pipeline — ...

Across the world, women consistently outlive men, a pattern that shows up in national life expectancy tables, hospital wards, and even nursing homes. Now a wave of new research is sharpening the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

When Neil Armstrong first set foot on the moon in 1969, he made history with those famous words: 'That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.' And as Artemis II's Christina Koch becomes ...

Biologists call this distance the flight initiation distance, or FID. It is the gap between an approaching threat and the ...