The share of women researchers grew over the past two decades — but there is a wide gap across countries, according to a new report from publishing giant Elsevier.
Why it matters: Women's participation in science influences what topics are studied and what products are invented — from health products to AI algorithms.
As the U.S. faces another potentially record heat wave this week, the Middle East and Europe's Mediterranean have endured extreme temperatures that have proven deadly.
The big picture: Multiple heat-related deaths have been reported in Greece during the country's earliest heat wave on record and Jordan's official news agency said Sunday "14 Jordanian pilgrims died and 17 others were missing" in the searing heat while on the Islamic Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia.
Dads today are spending more time changing diapers, tying shoes and pushing swings — nurturing acts that a new book argues have long been part of men's biological nature.
Why it matters: Fathers are relatively new scientific subjects, and new findings are expanding our understanding of parenting, primatologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy writes in "Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies."
