For decades, scientists believed that only male birds sang. Then women entered the field and showed what their predecessors had missed.

Diversifying leadership can change organizational cultures, which removes barriers to women in the tech industry and academia.

Hip food offerings can signal that a neighborhood is gentrifying – especially when they repackage traditional foods for wealthy white eaters.

Barriers for Black scientists won't go away without substantial funding – and measures that don't require white people to lose out.

Scientists portrayed in biology textbooks are predominantly white men, according to a US study.

A new report debunks the Hollywood myth that films with female or underrepresented minority lead actors tend to perform worse at the box office.

White men still dominate leadership positions on corporate boards, research finds. "Simply adding diversity does not automatically remove the glass ceiling."

Brain scans suggest that places with language diversity might offer monolingual people some of the benefits of bilingualism.

"The promise of precision medicine that improves health will not be achieved with studies based solely on people of primarily European ancestry."

Merely becoming acquainted with a gay person has the power to shift people's views on marriage equality, research suggests.