“Pushing Women and People of Color Out of Science Before We Go In”

“I am a senior at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a materials engineer, an honors student, and a woman. I also have been told hundreds of times that I don’t deserve to be where I am. MIT admissions…

“Yes, a ‘build your own Uber for X’ kit costs only $400"

“The company’s product is exactly as it sounds — all the basic tech underlying Uber’s business, bundled for you to purchase and use. Mowares is targeting budding entrepreneurs who wish to start up an on-demand business of whatever…

“The Work-Life Integration Overload: Thousands of Researchers Weigh in on Outmoded Work Environments, Unfriendly Family Policies”

“The Association for Women in Science (AWIS) finds that lack of flexibility in the workplace, dissatisfaction with career development opportunities and low salaries are driving both men and women…

“Early cerebellum injury hinders neural development, possible root of autism, theory suggests”

“”The association between cerebellar deficits and autism has been around for a while,” Sahin said. “What Sam Wang and colleagues do in this perspective article is to…

“Congressmen ask HHS to clarify rules around health data privacy”

“The call for more clarity on the subject originally came from The App Association, which sent a letter saying as much to members of Congress earlier this week. There is a huge interest among developers to get into the health space, App Association executive…

“You Are Not Late”

“So, the truth: Right now, today, in 2014 is the best time to start something on the internet. There has never been a better time in the whole history of the world to invent something.”

“Desire2Learn raises $85M for web-based teaching platform”

“And here’s the big data twist. The platform looks at a pile of data to figure out which students are most at risk for falling behind, then provides the teacher options for intervention before the failure point. Teachers can also suggest apps to students and track…

“Rituals That Work And Why”

“rituals might not work for the reasons they seem to. Sometimes they’re technology. Sometimes they’re self- or social intervention. Sometimes they’re intricate methods of random assignment. And sometimes they don’t work at all. But working isn’t always the point.”

“’Astonishing Progress’ Made on Heart Disease, Doctors Say”

““Interestingly, these improvements happened in a period when there were no real ‘miracle’ clinical advancements,” study researcher Dr. Harlan Krumholz, a professor of medicine at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, said…