Science Education

A Canadian boy picked up new allergies when he received donor plasma

A crafty food science project from Science Buddies

Have you ever been told not to play with your food? Perhaps been told that it isn’t polite or disrespects the other people at the table?

You can now share your genome, health and microbiome info, and viral infection data to crowdsourced medical research projects. Cynthia Graber reports

 

Visual notes from the Science of Learning panel at South by Southwest EDU (SXSWedu)

At the fifth annual White House Science Fair on March 23, 2015, some 30 students shared their hard work on their research projects and collected insights.

A tasty test from Science Buddies 

When I told Kit Parker of Harvard University to think about explaining what he does to teenagers who would be watching our Google Science Fair Hangout On Air earlier today, he had a great answer for me: “My job is to work on cool.” Among Parker’s many “cool” research passions are understanding cardiac cell biology [...]

Attracting women and minorities to science-related fields is essential to meeting demand for high-tech workers

What I love about the annual TED gathering in Vancouver is the way science coexists along with art, social justice, popular song and the rest of TED's eclectic mix.

Do all objects with the same mass and shape accelerate at the same speed? Find out with Exploratorium

In conjunction with this magazine's inclusion on the March 12 episode of The Big Bang Theory, here's an edited version of a talk by the sitcom's science advisor, U.C.L.A. physicist David Saltzberg, about his role and the show's reach