Is there really one single thing called science, and has it ever been apolitical?

Science is a fairly recent invention, while ‘scientist’ was coined less then 200 years ago

Eight portraits of pioneering Irish medical women unveiled at Royal College of Surgeons

‘Women on Walls’ campaign started in 2016 at the Royal Irish Academy

‘Gilets jaunes’, empty-chairing of Zuckerberg and scientists on banknotes

Planet Business: Also this week, Brexit pain in numbers, and changes at Condé Nast

Unthinkable: Is science being skewed by a gender bias?

The status of women in science is distorting not just academia but knowledge itself, says Helen de Cruz

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