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Children Are Drawing Female Scientists More Than Ever, And A 50-Year Study Reveals Why
For decades, asking children to draw a scientist produced a remarkably predictable result. Most would sketch a man wearing a white lab coat, often complete with glasses, facial hair, and laboratory equipment. Women were almost entirely absent from these drawings, reflecting a long-standing stereotype about who belongs in science. Now, researchers examining more than 20,000…
Scientists Asked People Questions While They Were Dreaming, And Some Actually Answered
In a sleep laboratory at Northwestern University, a volunteer drifted deep into a daytime nap. By every measure available to the researchers, they were asleep. Their muscles had gone slack, their eyes were closed, and electrodes traced the unmistakable patterns of REM sleep, the stage when vivid dreams are most common. Then the sleeping volunteer…