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#Perspective / Gender diversity in science: How children's drawings are changing the perception of scientists

A recent study published in the journal, Child Development, found that children are drawing more female scientists than ever before, with girls more likely to draw female scientists than boys. The study found that children as young as six years old showed more gender diversity in their drawings of scientists than in previous years. Specifically, the study found that 28 per cent of the children drew female scientists, compared to 0.6 per cent in a similar study conducted in the 1960s.

Bangladeshi scientists offer to help India combat wheat blast

Bangladesh scientists offer help to India for tackling the deadly wheat blast outbreak.

Scientists grow human organs for transplant inside pigs

Scientists in the United States are trying to grow human organs inside pigs.

Lab-grown skin sprouts hair and glands

Scientists in Japan have successfully transplanted mice with lab-grown skin that has more of the organ's working parts in place than ever before.

Scientists may have discovered the fossilised skull of a ‘Siberian unicorn’

For decades, scientists have estimated that the Siberian unicorn -- a long-extinct species of mammal that looked more like a rhino than a horse -- died out some 350,000 years ago, but a beautifully preserved skull found in Kazakhstan has completely overturned that assumption.

Good news for mango lovers

Wouldn't it be great if you could have a mango in deep winter? Why not any time of the year? What if it was just as yellow and luscious and fragrant as one from peak season?

Melting glaciers blamed for subtle slowing of Earth's rotation

The melting of glaciers caused by the world's rising temperatures appears to be causing a slight slowing of the Earth's rotation in another illustration of the far-reaching impact of global climate change, scientists say.

Scientists discover why Mars is losing atmosphere every second

Scientists say Mars is currently losing about one-quarter pound of atoms in its atmosphere to space every second.

Scientists reveal a bit of good news about Greenland’s great melt

Climate change is speeding up the melting of the great sheet of ice covering Greenland, a frozen mass the size of Alaska that holds an estimated 10 percent of the world’s ice and scientists are sure of it, reports news and lifestyle magazine TakePart.

February 19, 2015
February 19, 2015

New drug tested on monkeys effectively shields against AIDS, study reveals

Scientists say new drug tested on monkeys provided astonishingly effective shield against animal version of AIDS, major gain in the quest for an HIV vaccine

February 10, 2015
February 10, 2015

Scientists say they have gained new insight into what lies at Earth core

Scientists say they have gained new insight into what lies at the very centre of the Earth

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