Diversity in Science: Why It Is Essential for Excellence
Science and technology are society's main engines of prosperity. Who gets to drive them?
Features
Diversity in Science: Where Are the Data?
Global figures on diversity in the science and engineering workforce are hard to come by, but what we know is not flattering
How Diversity Makes Us Smarter
Being around people who are different from us makes us more creative, more diligent and harder-working
Point of View Affects How Science Is Done
Gender and culture influence research on a fundamental level
Citizen Science Is Stimulating a Wealth of Innovative Projects
Networked technology and social media are enabling outsiders to gather and crunch data
Scientists Draw on Personal Experience to Guide Their Curiosity
How a researcher’s background can determine her mission
When I Learned the Value of Diversity for Innovation
In a diverse team, the best ideas are more likely to rise to the top
How Nations Fare in PhDs by Sex [Interactive]
How women and men fare in doctoral studies around the world
3 Myths Plus a Few Best Practices for Achieving Diversity
There is no formula for bringing diversity to the workplace or classroom, but new research that deepens our understanding of how diversity operates suggests some modestly successful strategies...
Time to Raise the Profile of Women and Minorities in Science
To change the equation, start changing the perception
How Big Bang Gravitational Waves Could Revolutionize Physics
If the recent discovery of gravitational waves emanating from the early universe holds up under scrutiny, it will illuminate a connection between gravity and quantum mechanics and perhaps, in the process, verify the existence of other universes...
Can Science Avert a Coffee Crisis?
Researchers are racing to breed beneficial new traits into the dangerously homogeneous coffee crop before it succumbs to disease or other threats
Tugs and Prods on a Cell, Not Just Its Genes, Determine Its Fate in the Human Body
Physical pushes and pulls on a cell, not just genes, determine whether it will become part of a bone, a brain—or a deadly tumor
Methane Hydrates Could Power the Planet—or Fry It
Methane hydrates could solve the world's energy challenge—or make global warming worse
Math Games of Martin Gardner Still Spur Innovation
In what would be his centennial year, Martin Gardner, the longtime author of Scientific American's celebrated Mathematical Games column, continues to inspire mathematicians and puzzle lovers...
Departments
- From the Editor
You’re Invited: Help Change the World with Science
- Letters
Readers Respond to "The World Without Free Will"
- Advances
Misfolded Proteins Travel in Huntington’s Disease
Teen Wins Big for His Sock Invention
Know the Jargon: “Human Shield Effect”
Monarch Butterflies at the Center of a Continent-Wide Conservation Effort
A Surprising Time-of-Death Tool
Virtual-Reality Headset Is Reinventing Exposure Therapy
Transparent Rats Give Scientists Clear View to Innards
Alaska Highway Getting More Bumps in the Road
How Big Animals Deter Cancer
Earth’s Impending Magnetic Flip
Meet NASA’s One and Only Planetary Protection Officer
- Forum
Wanted: Long-Term Thinking about Technology and Education
- The Science of Health
Increasing Testosterone Use Raises Safety Concerns
- The Science Agenda
How to Fight Race and Gender Bias in Science [Editorial]
- TechnoFiles
3 Rules for Absurd Internet Stunts
- Skeptic
Anomalous Events That Can Shake One’s Skepticism to the Core
- Anti Gravity
A New Book Examines What Laughter Was All about in Ancient Rome
- 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago
Evolution versus Creation; Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon
- Graphic Science
Asteroid Families Traced Back to the Collisions That Spawned Them
- Reviews
Book Review: WTF, Evolution?!
Book Review: Alive Inside
Book Review: Arrival of the Fittest
Book Review: Your Atomic Self
