Science Education

Admit it: haven’t you always longed to experience what it’s like to be a proton at the subatomic scale? No? Just Jen-Luc Piquant then.

One of the most powerful contributions of scientific illustration is to give us an informed visual where it is typically impossible to find one.

Censored: How the Army Eats In this issue, a telling line reads: "The censors have not allowed the press of the world to state whether or not explosives were dropped on the fortifications of Liège." This special "War Issue" contained much on military theory, organization and resources, but apart from a scattering of images little [...]

A physics project from Science Buddies

Women in physics tend to be outnumbered by men nearly all over the world. For a few days in early August, however, it didn't feel that way when I attended the International Conference on Women in Physics in Waterloo, Canada.

The following is a guest post by Scott Bennett, principal of eSTEM Academy in Reynoldsburg, Ohio When I first started teaching science 10 years ago, no one ever talked about achievement or thought about data.

Innovation and discovery as chronicled in past issues of Scientific American

To bolster the nation's high-tech labor pool, some higher education should come without a tuition bill

Imagined practice may activate the same neural circuits as real experience

Books and recommendations from Scientific American

Books and recommendations from Scientific American

Scientists pin Oklahoma earthquakes on human activity