Science Education

An earthy exercise from Science Buddies

So it's cold and rainy, and you're up a little too late trying to figure out why that one pesky assumption is necessary in a theorem. Wouldn't it be nice if you could just order up a space that was path connected but not locally connected?

The lung ailment is a leading killer in the U.S.

Sometimes you want to learn a “new” multiplication algorithm from a general interest math book, sometimes you want to learn why voting systems are doomed to imperfection, and sometimes you just want to play with numbers, patterns, and pictures.

A physics project from Science Buddies

It’s clear that we as a nation are failing to engage minority students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics as well as we could.

Scientific American's parent company, Macmillan Science & Education strives to be both a place where curious minds gather together to achieve great things for our customers—and where we can, working together as a company, be more than the sum of our parts.

Heather Berlin, assistant professor of psychiatry and of neuroscience at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, is the co-host of the new CUNY TV program Science Goes to the Movies  

A new, national survey released by the University of Michigan has found that 50 percent of parents who have teenage children would support later start times for high school.

A Valentine's Day chemistry challenge from Science Buddies

As a graphics designer, I have a love/hate relationship with circles. The humble form provides a relief from rigid rectangular chart structures that are pinned to x- and y-axes.

An ocean science study from Science Buddies