
The Number of Americans with No Religious Affiliation Is Rising
The rise of the atheists

The Number of Americans with No Religious Affiliation Is Rising
The rise of the atheists

Culture Shapes How Children View the Natural World
Native American kids and non-Native kids conceptualize wild animals differently


The Legacy of the Trickster Hare
Let's consider a different view of the Easter bunny

A Brain Deprived of Memory
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.

Pushing the Boundaries of "Show, Don't Tell"
Malofiej 2018 and the role of infographics in the evolution of storytelling

I Will Always Love The Phantom Tollbooth
Children’s literature has so much to offer when it assumes young readers are up for a challenge

The Joys of Scientific Outreach
It’s important, it’s fun, and more and more young researchers are diving in

The Scientific Palaeoart of Dr Mark Witton
There is a revolution in palaeoart, and a revolution in the science of pterosaurs. Here, we look at an artist and scientist deeply involved in both of these events...

Stephen Hawking: 3 Publications That Shaped His Career
A pop culture icon and ground-breaking physicist, Stephen Hawking is one of the most prominent figures in modern science. Nature Video explores three of the publications that shaped his career and his legacy.
This video was reproduced with permission and was first published on March 13, 2018. It is a Nature Video production.

A New Frontier: Data Visualization for Human Rights
What I learned in a five-day workshop in Beirut

Salvador Dalí and the Hypercube
The surrealist artist had a lifetime fascination with science and mathematics, which greatly influenced his art

How People Talk Now Holds Clues about Human Migration Centuries Ago
Researchers are analyzing dialects and historical records to unravel the formation of a Creole language