The international science competition organized by the Royal Photographic Society of the United Kingdom has produced an amazing collection of photographs covering various aspects of science, from medicine and zoology to engineering and astronomy. Amateur and professional photographers could participate in the contest, in three age categories: up to 17 years old, from 18 to … Read more
February 11 is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science , which seeks to make the work of women in this field visible and promote scientific culture among young women. Despite the fact that women make up more than half of university students in Spain , only 30% choose mathematics and computer science, … Read more
Stephen Hawking left us last week at age 76, ill with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis that he developed at age 21. Now his ashes will rest alongside Newton and Darwin , in Westminster Abbey. Westminster Abbey Westminster Abbey is the final resting place of 17 monarchs and some of the most important figures in the history … Read more
The third season of the series "Cosmos" will premiere on the National Geographic Channel on March 9, 2020. The Emmy and Peabody award-winning series will be presented again by science popularizer Neil deGrasse Tyson , now an astrophysicist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Third season Also returning to this third … Read more
More than 4,000 scientists and some scientific organizations, as well as universities and academic journals such as Nature and others, have stopped research activities on June 10 to reflect and take action on systemic inequalities in science . Organizations that joined the strike include the physical science preprint server arXiv, which discourages authors from submitting … Read more