If your mental image of a scientist looks like this, you're due for an update. aluxum/E+ via Getty Images A man in a lab coat bends under a dim light, his strained eyes riveted onto a microscope. He’s ...

Much of what keeps science accurate, ethical, and usable is done by women and girls—and because it doesn’t look like a breakthrough, it rarely counts as one. Science loves a clean story. A single mind ...

Nicola Gaston receives funding as Co-Director of the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, via the Tertiary Education Commission. She also receives funding from the Marsden ...