Science Education

As much as we know about the white stuff that has blanketed much of the U.S. this winter, the sound that snow makes when trod underfoot remains something of a mystery

An illuminating new documentary reveals deliberate efforts to obfuscate global warming

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