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Kids' drawings of scientists are super cute. They can also tell us a lot about gender stereotypes.
The Draw-a-Scientist Test has become a classic piece of social science, and has been repeated many times over the intervening decades to understand how children perceive scientists.
Draw a rough circle in the top right quadrant of a square sheet of paper; this will become the bird’s head. Next to it, starting at 7 o’clock, add an oval twice the size for the body.
In the relentless, never-ceasing war of man v. insect, each side has just won a minor skirmish:In Orlando, Fla., after two years of experimenting and selective breeding, the Department of ...
Science teachers may want to add doodling to their lesson plans, say researchers who found the freehand drawing may help students learn science.
Stand Up for Science, a grassroots organization, held the rally calling on “policymakers, institutions, and the scientific community to uphold the integrity of science, protect its accessibility ...
Kids say and draw the darndest things. The Earth Science Division at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley recently held an Earth Science Showcase, meant to highlight the center’s work ...
Her mother said that videos about biomimicry — the idea that medicine, engineering and science draw inspiration from nature — changed the way both kids look at the world.
A weird new roguelite on Steam blends the genres of tower defense autobattler and factory builder into a cute, if odd, synergy. In ShapeHero Factory you scrawl out little production lines on ...
The study findings, appearing in Science, draw comparisons between the immune system activity of past HIV vaccine study participants and people with HIV who naturally keep the virus from ...
Redheads, who have been given a hammering by the jokesmiths, got no comfort from science last week. In the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Dr. Hans von Hentig of the University of Kansas ...