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Topic: women in science

This artist's concept shows what the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system may look like, based on available data about the planets' diameters, masses and distances from the host star, as of February 2018. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

An astrophysicist on alien life

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Portraits of Ada Lovelace, Eunice Foote, Nettie Stevens, Alice Augusta Ball and Lise Meitner. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/WikiCommons/The Tuttle Company)

Sexism and racism persist in science

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Pr. Mildred Dresselhaus with an ultra high vacuum surface analysis system for imaging and characterizing thin film organic and inorganic materials and devices in the soft semiconductor lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mildred Dresselhaus, USA, LOreal-UNESCO Award For Women in Science, 2007 Laureate for North America, 'For her research on solid state materials, including conceptualizing the creation of carbon nanotubes'. (Micheline PELLETIER/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

The remarkable life of a nanotech queen

Maia Weinstock
(Getty/Totojang)

NAS to vote on removing sexual harassers

Nicole Karlis
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Women in STEM face huge disadvantages

Farah Qaiser
(AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Harassment hits every continent

Eve Andrews - Grist
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Tackling sexism in STEM

Amanda Marcotte
Close up of a female university student holding books and a laptop [url=http://www.istockphoto.com/file_search.php?action=file&lightboxID=4140694][img]http://www.erichood.net/edubanner.jpg[/img][/url] (Eric Hood)

Carolyn Conner Seepersad - The Conversation
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The only woman in the room

Eileen Pollack
(Reuters/Fiona Hanson/Stephen Hird)

A "baying witch hunt"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Fabiola Gianotti (Reuters/Denis Balibouse)

Joanna Rothkopf
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Jenny Kutner
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