Masculine culture responsible for keeping women out of computer science, engineering
Masculine cultures foster a greater sense of belonging and ability to be successful in boys than they do in girls.
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AI means there’s no better time to study maths – but degrees are becoming less accessible
We may soon know the answers to many long-standing mathematical problems.
BBC micro:bit aims to turn children from digital consumers into digital creators
Micro:bit has a parallel in the Model B, which the BBC launched in the 1980s.
How the science of tiny timescales could speed up computers and improve solar cell technology
Attosecond science allows the extremely fast movements of electron particles to be observed. This emerging field brings both opportunity and controversy.
A century of opening up government gathers pace
The World Bank is to provide a $1.2 million grant to fund the Open Data Partnership for Development, a project with the Open Knowledge Foundation and the Open Data Institute. The aim is to help developing…
The tongue: how one of the body’s most sensitive organs is helping blind people ‘see’
A device could be use to transmit a camera’s video feed into moving patterns of electrical stimulation on the surface of the tongue.
Will all the ethical social scientists please stand up?
Social scientists have to get better at recognising and responding to ethical problems. Although economists, political scientists and psychologists have not been responsible for the same level of abuses…
Closing the computer science gender gap: how one woman is making a difference in many lives
The number of women receiving undergraduate degrees in computer science has plummeted by 40% in the last 20 years. How can this be changed? Ask Maria Klawe.
Who will change our lives in near future? Check the tech top 50
Computer Weekly has released its Tech Top 50 of current UK leaders in IT: people whose influence affects us all in various ways, or who are developing new technologies to change our lives now, or in the…
Alarming gender gap in school science sets women up to fail
Schools need to do more to protect both girls and boys from society’s gender stereotyping.
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