Science & Technology

The letter also raised concerns over a 2023 National Physical Laboratory study, external, which found the NeoFace system used by the Met was less accurate for women and people of colour depending on the algorithm that has been set. The study’s authors found the system could show bias at lower thresholds, though at the higher […]

On March 27, President Donald Trump released an executive order, misnamed “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” which advances pseudo-scientific ideas on race, and attacks funding for programs and institutions that preserve and steward our country’s history. Janai Nelson, President and Director-Counsel of the Legal Defense Fund, issued the following statement in response to […]

The Met commissioner should scrap plans to deploy live facial recognition (LFR) at next weekend’s Notting Hill carnival because the technology is riven with “racial bias” and subject to a legal challenge, 11 civil liberty and anti-racist groups have demanded. A letter sent to Mark Rowley warns that use of instant face-matching cameras at an […]

Alarm bells are ringing again for health advocates. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. scrapped a meeting for a federal advisory task force charged with making recommendations for which preventive care treatments must be covered by insurance companies, including cancer screenings and tests for sexually transmitted infections. The future of the task […]

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Regeneron STS 2023 Finalist Ozioma Obi at Public Day. Black scientists and engineers make up approximately 9% of the STEM workforce, according to a 2021 report from the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics. That number has increased since 2011, when Black workers accounted for only 6%. Throughout history, many pioneers have made remarkable […]

In January, a relentless wave of wildfires tore through Los Angeles, reducing a historic Black community to ash and claiming 29 lives. Later that month, a rare winter storm brought heavy snow to the Southeast and the Gulf Coast. Eleven people perished.  Then, in March, more than 100 tornadoes ripped through the South in two […]

Sometimes, all it takes is one person to shape the world we live in. With a spark of imagination and a little bit of courage, amazing things can be achieved. Unfortunately, some of those achievements can be overshadowed and innovations taken for granted; history is full of amazing scientists who were often overlooked because of […]

In my lifetime, I have watched women I know endure abuse—abuse that never began with a single explosive act, but with small, almost imperceptible steps. A push that seemed dismissible. A slap framed as a moment of anger. A cutting remark disguised as “just words.” Over time, these small acts piled up until the abuse […]