Female scientists
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Are We Being Too Superficial About the Gender Problem in Science?
Hope Jahren, a geobiologist at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, is “very cynical about efforts to get girls into science.”Photograph by GSK / Flickr Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Why should the share of women in a given occupation affect its average pay? It’s a curious inverse […] -
Biologists Work to Protect a Cathedral of Biology
The isolated Galapagos Islands are a ecological treasure and a key setting in the history of science: Charles Darwin did research there that helped him come to understand biological evolution—though, as detailed in a new Nautilus story by Henry Nicholls, it was observations of plants, rather than the better-known finches, that were most enlightening. Nautilus Members […]