Last week was a holiday week with fewer days of school for my kids, so I decided to do a little experiment with them and the other kids on our street who were willing to participate. What I asked them ...

Julie Gould describes what happened after showing 50 images of working scientists to a bunch of 12–13 year-olds. Draw a Scientist is a test developed in 1983 to explore children’s perspectives of ...

Who is the “science type?”? If the Draw-a-Scientist social experiment first conducted in the sixties is any indication, back then, it was certainly a man. Out of the almost 5,000 scientists drawn by ...