Northwestern University professor Alice Eagly says the highest leadership positions today are more open to women than ever—but there are female-specific branches at each career stage that lead many away.

Bright sunny Wednesday here in Ohio made all the better upon hearing that the miners trapped in the Chilean mine have started to make their way – one by one […]

Sometime in the 21st century psychology will finally be considered a science. But until then political correctness will interfere with its search for truth.

The molecular biologist believes that a predisposition to schizophrenia is 100% genetic. Certain environmental factors, like smoking marijuana, can trigger the mental disorder.

Most doctors believe that different cancers require personalized therapies, but studying their common biochemistry could lead to a universal treatment.

The X-ray crystallographer contributed some crucial pieces of information to Watson and Crick’s search for the double helix. But because she likely had Asperger’s syndrome, she was almost impossible to collaborate with.

If you go into science, you should do so in order to win the Nobel Prize, not to earn a decent paycheck.

Synthetic life is just a close mimic to what already exists—it isn’t a truly new form of life, Venter’s human genome rival says.

The molecular biologist’s genome is the second to ever be sequenced. The results gave him some potentially life-saving information.

Something I wrote for this week’s edition of the Weekly Pulse health care newsletter. The gimmicky, pink breast cancer “awareness” stunts are getting old.  October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. […]

The pioneering molecular biologist recounts some of the major breakthroughs in the search for the structure of DNA.

Hearing Sutherland at the Met: "It was…a reminder of how an exceptional gift, carefully developed and generously used, changed the operatic landscape."

"This research is an important reminder that the unconscious is smarter than we can comprehend, as it processes vast amounts of information in parallel."

"In the last few weeks, four young gay men have committed suicide, all in some way connected to fear, shame or isolation around the issue of their homosexuality."

Gawker began as a media-gossip site devoted to 'radical Manhattanism,' and has since morphed into a world view for the blogging generation.

Nathaniel James, Community Engagement Specialist at the Mozilla Foundation, spoke at American University yesterday about Mozilla’s “disruptive” plans to keep the internet open and accessible — plans that could change […]

Much of the accepted wisdom on bullying is not only ineffective, it makes things worse. Advice to "just be nice", "don't be a tattletale" and "'just ignore them'" needs revisiting.

"It will never be a substitute for proper carbon-taxing, but eco-labelling is a development to be welcomed."

The recession has not torn young couples apart; it has pushed them closer together. Marriage and divorce rates have remained remarkably immune to the business cycle.

"Maintaining a diverse media is a crucial underpinning of democracy. As for Murdoch, the sun has shone and he has made hay. It is time he heard a regulator knocking at his door."