The pay imbalance is linked to a disproportionate number of men in the top jobs, especially to the performance bonuses offered to senior members of the investments team, all of whom were men.

I was routinely humiliated by my head of department. Universities must tackle bullying with proper policy.

Researchers say universities with generous policies employ twice the number of women professors.

Research into jobs finds men’s dominance in IT and biotech is reversing trend towards equality.

‘Scientific’ eugenics is on the rise, and grabbing a foothold in respected journals. The claim that these theories are a credible part of a general discussion should worry us all.

As a culture and a profession, medicine continues to systematically disadvantage women physicians at every stage of their careers.

Schools must encourage young people to question gender norms and behaviours, and ensure that sex education goes beyond biology

Technology could be used to wipe out malaria carrying mosquitos or other pests but UN experts say fears over possible military uses and unintended consequences strengthen case for a ban.

"It’s really not a mathematician kind of thing, but I’ll probably survive." - C. Hacon

Riko Muranaka awarded prize for efforts to explain jabs’s safety amid scare campaigns which have seen Japanese vaccination rate fall from over 70% to 1%.

Experiences of black female academics. A new book explores ther career trajectories.

Some of the 1,250 people working at the year-old laboratory say its open plan layout, designed to produce collaboration, makes it hard to focus on work

Paris takes European Banking Authority and European Medicines Agency goes to Amsterdam as EU’s chief negotiator mocks Theresa May’s ‘Brexit means Brexit’ stance.

Leadership is ‘sorely lacking’ in key areas such as robotics and climate change, parliament’s spending monitor warns.

Republican-controlled Congress ordered destruction of vital sea-ice probe.

In order to tempt nuclear scientists from countries such as Iran or North Korea to defect, US spy agencies routinely send agents to academic conferences – or even host their own fake ones.

Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson receive £825,000 prize for developing method for generating 3D images of life-building structures.

Adjunct professors in America face low pay and long hours without the security of full-time faculty. Some, on the brink of homelessness, take desperate measures.

Combining expertise from 21 labs in Europe and the US, the International Brain Laboratory will attempt to answer one of the greatest mysteries of all time.

Nowhere near enough new drugs are currently in development says a WHO report, which calls for urgent investment and responsible use of existing antibiotics.