The Latest Breaking News from STEM

Young women still face long odds when it comes to learning about, exploring and entering STEM careers. Both for their benefit and the good of the economy, we must find ways to bring more of them in.

A shortage of tomatoes affecting UK supermarkets is widening to other fruit and vegetables and is likely to last weeks, retailers have warned. A combination of bad weather and transport problems in Africa and Europe has seen UK supermarket shelves left bare of tomatoes, as well as dwindling stocks of…

Tiago Possetto, five, suffered a hypoxic brain injury aged eight weeks which left him unable to walk or talk unaided

In the early stages of the full-scale invasion, Ukrainian ingenuity and ability to adapt commercially available equipment helped stem the Russian advance. It proved less useful on the eastern front line, when Ukraine needed heavy weapons. But a year after the invasion, there’s little doubt that Ukraine’s DIY ingenuity has…

A bone marrow transplant isn't an option for everyone with HIV.

Carnegie Mellon University and the Norman and Ruth Rales Foundation announced Wednesday a $116 million gift to endow scholarships for graduate students studying STEM from groups underrepresented in the fields, including racial minorities, women and first-generation college students

The competition will challenge 22,000 K-12 students in 43 STEM schools to design a driving helmet. CPS will also integrate a NASCAR-themed science unit into its 8th-grade curriculum next year.

The patient has been off HIV medication for four years without relapse.

The patient has not needed medication for four years

The most stressful time of day is apparently 7.23am – but, for many, life is a constant roiling churn. Here are a few small changes that would help, writes Emma Beddington

Research students turn to US and Europe instead of waiting for Department of Home Affairs to approve study in some STEM fields