“Far too often…science has not only silenced but oppressed [African American] communities,” said Rev. Dr. Robert R. A. Turner, the pastor of the Historic Vernon A.M.E. Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the respondent at a scientific session at the virtual 2021 AAAS Annual Meeting.

Science fiction is the medium we can use to make thought experiments – to test ideas of how we live and how we ought to be living with each other, said Brother Guy Consolmagno, Director of the Vatican Observatory, during a virtual discussion on 9 December 2020.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) first-year student Anjali Chadha still remembers her early classroom days; that boys were taught to explore activities and be adventurous, while she and other girls were not.

Growing up collecting scarab beetles, reading about butterflies and learning taxonomy, it’s no surprise that AAAS Member Emir Memišević ended up with a bug-related career—beekeeping.

At least once a week, Carnegie Institution mineralogist and AAAS Fellow Robert Hazen finds himself surrounded by eagles and ospreys in the Western Shore of the Chesapeake Bay.

When tasked with planning an activity about how fossils influence pop culture at the Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology, AAAS Member Gabriel-Philip Santos had an idea to make his talk stand out.

Living on ships to film what lurks in the depths of the ocean is normal for AAAS Member Caitlin Bailey. In fact, it’s her job.