Science Education

Dating from the mid-1800s, the periodic table took decades to develop and was critical to atomic theory and quantum mechanics

A U.S. mathematician used a giant network of computers to find a new prime number--17,425,170 digits long

DNA analysis confirms that bones excavated from underneath a parking lot in Leicester, England, are the remains of the vilified English king, Richard III

A modest effort to enlist amateur bird-watchers in the cause of ornithology wound up producing a fire hose of data and helping rewrite the rules of science

Microscopic analyses of chondrites, the oldest rocks in the solar system, are filling in details of what our neighborhood in space was like shortly before the planets formed

Scientific American contributing editor George Musser answers viewer questions submitted to YouTube's Spacelab Channel

A genetically geared activity from Science Buddies

Science has progressed from wild ­speculation about Earth's planetary neighbors—including how they formed and whether they are inhabited—to a better ­understanding of our celestial neighborhood

A century after Scott and Amundsen, the Antartctic still beckons

Explorers in search of scientific knowledge, as well as glory, conquered the poles 100 years ago

A density doing from Science Buddies

The Episciences Project will launch a series of community-run, peer-reviewed, open-access journals that will overlay the arXiv preprint server already widely used by physicists