Science 'excludes black people'
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British black scientists, engineers and technologists are vastly under-represented in their chosen fields, says a leading commentator.
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A memo at the World Health Organization expressed concern that the growing dominance of malaria research by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation could stifle a diversity of views among scientists.
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A difference of opinion about the genetic basis of race has emerged between scientists at the National Human Genome Center at Howard University and some other geneticists.
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A leading museum has cancelled a talk by a Nobel Prize-winning scientist from the United States who reportedly claimed that black people are less intelligent than whites, it said Thursday.
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Figures taking pupils' socio-economic backgrounds into consideration are misleading, say researchers
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Genetics may play a greater role than previously thought in accounting for black women's higher rate of premature births, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine have found.
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A prominent New York scientific laboratory suspended Nobel Prize-winning geneticist Dr. James Watson on Thursday night over racially insensitive comments he was quoted as making in a newspaper interview earlier in the week.
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Inquiry to examine impact of science on 40-year-old law, but debate over moral issues ruled out.
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Black children are less likely to get  enough sleep than their white counterparts, which makes them  susceptible to poorer school performance and behavioral  problems, a study said on Monday.
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African-American preschoolers whose parents say they don't believe racism is a problem are more likely to be depressed or anxious, a new study indicates.
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The vaccination rate for black children in the United States has caught up to that of youngsters in other racial groups.
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U.S. blacks continue to get inferior  cancer treatment compared to whites, researchers said on Monday  in a study showing that disparities first documented in the  early 1990s persist despite efforts to erase them.
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DNA pioneer denies allegations of racism James Watson, the Nobel prize-winning scientist who caused an uproar earlier this week with his comments to a Sunday newspaper has been suspended by his research laboratory.â¦
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NEW YORK  - Black and Asian women have much  lower rates of success with assisted reproductive techniques  such as in vitro fertilization than other racial groups,  researchers reported at the annual meeting of the American  Society of Reproductive Medicine that is underway in  Philadelphia.
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A new report claims that the Bush administration has suppressed scientists' climate-change work.
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A British museum has canceled a lecture by Dr. James Watson, co-founder of the DNA double helix, after he claimed black people are less intelligent than whites in a recent newspaper interview.
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Gender bias &#151; not any biological difference between the sexes &#151; stifles the careers of female scientists at the nation's universities, says a new report that calls for wide-ranging steps to level the playing field.