Stories by Mariette DiChristina

Editor in chief Mariette DiChristina introduces the May 2014 issue of Scientific American

Kids searching for fossils using SharkFinder kits at Scientific American’s booth at the USA Science & Engineering Festival. Credit: Jason Osborne Jason Osborne was trying to grab a quick lunch away from the crowds when his wife called his cellphone.

I’ll write a fuller post about the amazing things that kids are doing at Scientific American’s booth 1311 at the USA Science & Engineering Festival, but I wanted to share the short video below.

Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina introduces the April 2014 issue of Scientific American

Find out why Oxford University astrophysicist and founder of The Zooniverse Chris Lintott believes that humanity’s ability to be “deliciously distractable” is a creative engine powering the benefits of citizen science for discovery–and how, if you are a researcher, you might like to “play with your phyiscs.” With Google Student Ambassador Hanne Paine, we had [...]

Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina introduces the March 2014 issue of Scientific American

Scientists studying marine life now have a new tool in a next-generation atmospheric diving system called the Exosuit. The suit–which looks like something an astronaut would wear and is on display at the American Museum of Natural History until March 5–lets a diver descend to 1,000 feet at surface pressure for several hours.

We judges and others who work on the Google Science Fair believe that kids have the power to change the world. The $50,000 Scientific American Science in Action Award recognizes a particular type of changeone that focuses on making a practical difference by addressing an environmental, health or resources challenge.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death, said the famous physicist Albert Einsteinand one of the 150-plus Nobel Prize-winning scientists who has authored a feature article in Scientific American.

Since 1845, Scientific American has covered the innovations that sit at the nexus of science, business and policy. In its early years, as the Industrial Revolution swept across the U.S., our pages were rife with the focus and expectation that humans inventiveness would ease humankinds labors and improve the world.

Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina introduces the February 2014 issue of Scientific American

Quantum mechanicsoperating at atom-size scalesis so odd in so many ways that even Einstein despairingly said of it that God does not play dice with the world.

In a discussion with Scientific American editor in chief Mariette DiChristina, three noted experts on creativity, each with a very different perspective and background, reveal powerful ways to unleash your creative self

Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina introduces the January 2014 issue of Scientific American

Larry Page has said that, when he wears Google Glass, the wearable electronics that rests on the bridge of your nose like a pair of spectacles, he feels like he’s seeing the future.

At Scientific American, we take it as a given that science and technology form a key underpinning for human advancement. But all anybody needs to do to be convinced about their importance is to scan todays headlines about pressing global concerns of our finite world.

Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina introduces the December 2013 issue of Scientific American

Since 1845, Scientific American has shared the wonders of science with lifelong learners as the country’s oldest continuously published magazine.

Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina introduces the November 2013 issue of Scientific American

Scientific American bloggers lie at the heart of the SA website, pumping vitality, experience and broad insight around the community. Unfortunately our poor communication with this valuable part of the SA network over the recent days has led to concerns, misunderstandings and ill feelings, and we are committed to working to try to put this [...]

Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina introduces the October 2013 issue of Scientific American

Since I couldn’t bring you all with me to the amazing Google Science Fair Finalist Gala on 23 September, I’m posting the video here.

One of the great privileges of my job—and, indeed, of any job that is somehow related to science and technology—is that it comes with regular infusions of wonder at what humanity has been able to do through the use of that process we call “science”: It is fundamental to how we learn about the way [...]

How can science deliver solutions to global development problems? That was the question before us at one of the panels I moderated during the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting of New Champions 2013, or “Summer Davos,” the week of September 9 in Dalian, China.