Stories by Anna Kuchment

But it is unclear if oil and gas companies and their regulators will respond

Compassionate use of experimental medicine needs to coexist with scientific rigor to help patients, researchers write in the journal Science

Salty fluid sinks and puts pressure on rock, potentially triggering faults in Oklahoma for years to come

For 300 million years faults showed no activity, and then wastewater injections from oil and gas wells came along

Wastewater injection has created seismic problems in states like Oklahoma and Texas—but there are ways to mitigate the rumbling

Scientists are increasingly confident about the link between earthquakes and oil and gas production, yet regulators are slow to react

Olivia Hallisey, now 17, developed diagnostics for the virus that don’t require electricity or refrigeration

17-year-old Olivia Hallisey created a portable, rapid Ebola test that works without electricity

Imagination, grit power this year's batch of 20 finalists

How Lee Berger and a middle-school biology teacher brought the Homo nalendi discovery to students around the world

Led by university professors, "math circles" help young children see the beauty in numbers

These books, movies and experiences are some of our favorites from the last year. All are gettable by Christmas at either Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, or at your local bookstore and aquarium.

A chance observation about warts on a pea plant led a trio of teenagers on a three-year mission to solve the world food crisis. Their perseverance earned them top honors at the annual Google Science Fair in Mountain View, California.

Tonight, Google will announce the winners of its fourth annual Google Science Fair, which Scientific American co-sponsors. Watch the awards ceremony here live.

The following is a guest post by Scott Bennett, principal of eSTEM Academy in Reynoldsburg, Ohio When I first started teaching science 10 years ago, no one ever talked about achievement or thought about data.

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The following guest post is by Roy Rinberg, a graduate of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Va. and an incoming freshman at New York University. He is co-founder of Project Building Excitement for Science and Technology (BEST), an afterschool program for junior high school students.

Science museums are among the most trusted sources of information about the world around us. At their best, they offer fun, interactive, rich learning environments that surprise, inspire and enlighten their visitors.

College lecture classes have been around for more than 900 years. Lately, a handful of science and engineering professors have been experimenting with a more innovative way of teaching science, especially at the introductory level.

The winner of the 2013 Google Science Fair on why more kids should e-mail scientists

Just down the hall from Paulo Blikstein's office at Stanford University is a student laboratory of the future. It has spring green-and-yellow tiled floors, matching walls and is stocked with every type of digital fabrication tool one can imagine: laser cutters, 3D printers, 3D scanners, 3D milling machines, robotics, and programming tools.

Guest Post by Ayah Bdeir, founder and CEO of littleBits, an award-winning open source library of electronic modules that magnetically snap together to allow users to create simple circuits and innovative projects.

Guest Post by Ayah Bdeir, founder and CEO of littleBits, an award-winning open source library of electronic modules that magnetically snap together to allow users to create simple circuits and innovative projects.

Last month, 17-year-old Eric Chen from San Diego, California became the third Grand Prize winner in Google Science Fair history. Judges awarded him $50,000, a 10-day trip to the Galapagos Islands, a year of mentoring, and other prizes.