The ancient Olympic games were crowded with male athletes, but were there opportunities for females to compete in sports?

A major review finds exercise science still treats the male body as the default, sidelining women in research and raising questions about how universal fitness, training and recovery advice really is ...

A meta-analysis of 52 studies that included over 5,000 transgender people suggests that transgender women's physical fitness ...

Much of what keeps science accurate, ethical, and usable is done by women and girls—and because it doesn’t look like a ...

Women most often ranked male bodies more attractive when they exhibited a higher shoulder-to-hip ratio (i.e. a V-shape) and a larger penis. That said, these attributes had their limits. There came a ...

German artist Anselm Kiefer pays tribute to forgotten women of proto-science with his exhibition, “The Women Alchemists.” ...

Spanish scientist Pascual Diago has published a delusional study to denounce the invasion of fraudulent publishers in science ...

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Sports scientists are trying to figure out why female athletes are so prone to a specific type of knee injury.

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International Women and Girls in Science Day, Feb. 11, promotes full and equal access to and participation in STEM fields for women and girls.

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in collaboration with other leading institutions across the ...