STEM fields

Research assistant Georgina Bowyer works on a vaccine for Ebola at the Jenner Institute in Oxford, England, on January 16, 2015.

Science isn’t just ‘boys with toys,’ and these ‘girls’ can prove it

Science

If you think women aren’t playing important roles in math, science and engineering, just hop on Twitter and see more than 17,000 of them proving you wrong. But female scientists say there’s still much more to be done to encourage women to get into those fields.

Girls win all categories at Google Science Fair

Environment

America’s innovation economy

Environment
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