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Investigations by The Guardian newspaper uncover disparities in the rates at which whites and minorities are admitted to competitive programs at Cambridge and Oxford universities.
 

Women may be underrepresented in science because they're better than men at other things.
 

A BLS analysis suggests that most of the growth in science careers over the next decade or so will be in computer science.

A new Web site features grandmothers in science and related fields.

Computer science veteran Ed Lazowska argues that his field is poised to dominate careers in the sciences.

Underrepresented minorities increase their share of faculty posts at 2-year colleges, while Asians rise at 4-year institutions and in industry.

After the blush of first love is gone, Rachel Ruhlen digs deep to find passion for her work.

Is there really such a thing as a perfect postdoc? That exquisite transitional period during which you move from peon...

I want to be able to proudly say to someone that I am a "fill in the blank" and not cringe afterward.

“My interest has always been in language structure, the grammar of language,” Axelrod says. “So many different ways to talk about the world, it just makes you think how brilliant we are as human beings.”

Incoming African-American students express interest in the sciences, but their rate of attrition is high.