Yesterday President Barak Obama presented the National Medal of Science to nine "eminent researchers" and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation to four inventers, the "highest honors bestowed by the United States government on scientists,...

On the Nobel Prize front, 2009 is turning into a banner year for both nucleic acid chemistry and women scientists. As I posted earlier this week, two of the three winners of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine ("for the discovery of how chromosomes are...

Mad Chemist Chick has posted the October Scientiae blog carnival. The theme was "The Road Not Taken": This month's Carnival has contributions from bloggers who just begun their journeys while others have made the hard choices and are happy with their...

Today it was announced that Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak would share the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase". The award...

OK, I'm not really that technical - but the women in this nifty video that's currently making the rounds definitely are: The video was shot at the 2008 Grace Hopper Celebration and compiled by the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology. The...