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What if kids pictured STEM careers like getting to spend every day talking to people who are just as excited about space, dinosaurs or butterflies as they are?

With thousands of exhibits and dozens of live shows, it would be a challenge for anyone to walk away uninspired

Several feet below a beach in British Columbia, archaeologists discovered soil trampled by human feet—the oldest footprints found so far in North America. Christopher Intagliata reports.

Native American kids and non-Native kids conceptualize wild animals differently 

The latest book recommendations from the editors of Scientific American

The rise of the atheists

Letters to the editor from the December 2017 issue of Scientific American

Let's consider a different view of the Easter bunny

Michael Lemonick, opinion editor at Scientific American, talks about his most recent book, The Perpetual Now: A Story of Amnesia, Memory and Love, about Lonni Sue Johnson, who suffered a specific kind of brain damage that robbed her of much of her memory and her ability to form new memories, and what she has revealed to neuroscientists about memory and the brain.

Malofiej 2018 and the role of infographics in the evolution of storytelling

Children’s literature has so much to offer when it assumes young readers are up for a challenge

It’s important, it’s fun, and more and more young researchers are diving in