Stories by Carissa Wong

Following Mexico’s election of a woman with a scientific pedigree, Nature reviewed the legacy of well-known politicians with backgrounds in science and engineering.

More countries must recognize how gender affects exposure to pathogens, finds a review by the World Health Organization

Warming temperatures are likely to mean that more of your plane ride will have rocky conditions, creating potentially dangerous situations

Google scientists have modeled all 150 million connections of a fragment of the human brain at nanoscale resolution

Measles cases have ticked up in the U.K. following lower rates of MMR vaccination, and the U.S. could see similar outbreaks

Injections of no-longer-used growth hormone derived from cadavers may have “seeded” Alzheimer’s in some people, small study suggests

The first global declaration on reducing emissions from food production is a start, researchers say—but it sidesteps contentious issues such as meat consumption

A newly approved CRISPR therapy could transform the treatment of sickle cell disease and beta-thalassemia—but the technology is expensive