Egyptian-American astrophysicist Sarafina El-Badry Nance’s debut memoir, Starstruck, offers a window on what it is like growing up to be a scientist today as a…
View More Astrophysicist Sarafina El-Badry Nance: ‘I’ll probably always live with impostor syndrome’Tag: Race
Air we breathe in UK depends on race and income, studies show
We are all affected by air pollution but some of us suffer a greater burden than others. An analysis published by the mayor of London…
View More Air we breathe in UK depends on race and income, studies show‘Like living mirrors’: what twins’ special bonds reveal about nature, nurture and genetics
About one in every 65 pregnancies in the UK results in a multiple birth, a figure that has grown since the advent of fertility treatments,…
View More ‘Like living mirrors’: what twins’ special bonds reveal about nature, nurture and geneticsCan you #FindThatLizard? One scientist is tapping the tools of social media to transform her field
For five years now, obscure amphibians and reptiles have been scurrying on to the internet as part of a wildly popular social media science challenge,…
View More Can you #FindThatLizard? One scientist is tapping the tools of social media to transform her fieldAstraZeneca to run more clinical trials in people’s homes to improve diversity
AstraZeneca is to let more people take part in clinical trials from the comfort of their own homes in an attempt to increase the diversity…
View More AstraZeneca to run more clinical trials in people’s homes to improve diversityFrom oximeters to AI, where bias in medical devices may lurk
The UK health secretary, Sajid Javid, has announced a review into systemic racism and gender bias in medical devices in response to concerns it could…
View More From oximeters to AI, where bias in medical devices may lurkThe bias that blinds: why some people get dangerously different medical care
I met Chris in my first month at a small, hard-partying Catholic high school in north-eastern Wisconsin, where kids jammed cigarettes between the fingers of…
View More The bias that blinds: why some people get dangerously different medical careWhat unconscious bias training gets wrong… and how to fix it
Here’s a fact that cannot be disputed: if your name is James or Emily, you will find it easier to get a job than someone…
View More What unconscious bias training gets wrong… and how to fix itBusinesses may be forced to reveal pay gap between ethnic minority and white staff
Companies could be ordered to disclose any pay gap between white employees and their minority ethnic colleagues under reforms supported by Boris Johnson’s race equality…
View More Businesses may be forced to reveal pay gap between ethnic minority and white staffBAME Britons more likely to face higher living costs, study finds
Britons from black and ethnic minority backgrounds are among several groups facing disproportionately high living costs because of the likelihood of being hit by the…
View More BAME Britons more likely to face higher living costs, study finds