Dads want to work from home, but fear career penalties

Working from home could improve family well-being, gender equality, fertility and staff retention, but only if fathers can ...

Women hold just 3% of jobs in tourism's biggest transport sector, global study finds

Women remain vastly underrepresented in tourism transport jobs worldwide, making up just 3% of land passenger transport ...

Rice grown on the moon? Air-to-fertilizer technology helps rice grow in lunar soil simulant

Securing sustainable food supplies is a key challenge for long-term human exploration and potential habitation of the moon.

Camouflaging snails change color in the rain

How does a stripy tree snail hide from hungry birds? The Hypselostyla camelopardalis from the Philippines and Reinia variegata from Japan have both evolved a form of dynamic camouflage to survive.

Open cluster NGC 6134 in Norma is 1.38 billion years old and hosts a core, tidal tail and diffuse halo

Indonesian astronomers have conducted a comprehensive study of an open cluster in the constellation Norma, known as NGC 6134. Results of the new study, available in a research paper published June 23 ...

Linguistic reason Barbie's iconic speech became a cultural moment, and what Aristotle has to do with it

Everyone remembers where they were when Gloria lost it. The Barbie movie's big speech—America Ferrera, voice breaking, listing every single impossible thing the world expects women to be—hit something ...