Pop "scientist" into an image search and you're likely to see people in goggles and white coats, swirling liquids in Erlenmyer flasks or peering into microscopes.

In fact, if you buy into the myth that scientists are too busy doing research and making breakthroughs to worry about how they look, “fashionable” is probably the LAST adjective you’d throw ...

UCD’s Dr Dara Stanley gets on her science soapbox to pick apart decades of scientific stereotypes to tell us what’s wrong with this picture.

Instagram account @reimagineuk asked AI to create videos of the most stereotypical men around the world - with hilarious results.

If you ask middle school students what a scientist looks like, they will tell you he is an old white guy with crazy hair, glasses and a lab coat. More often than not, he is depicted inside and ...

In 1983, a social scientist named David Chambers published a landmark study on children’s drawings. During the late 1960s and the 1970s, teachers asked nearly 5,000 children to draw a scientist ...

A fly might enter your mouth. As you can tell by my photo atop the page, or by my Facebook profile photo (below), I don't exactly conform to the stereotype of how a scientist ought to look.

According to psychologists from the University of Amsterdam and the University of British Columbia, stereotypical ideas about scientists play a role here. They published their study in PLOS ONE.

But it takes effort and a deliberate goal of reversing stereotypes. Not just stereotypes about how scientists look, but how they act.