Environment
Studying the Tree Tops with Arboreal Ecologist "Canopy Meg"
Margaret Lowman, who also goes by the nickname “Canopy Meg,” is chief of science and sustainability at the California Academy of Sciences.
"Children"
Mind & Brain
For Parents of Young Athletes, 8 Steps to Protect Your Child's Brain
When I was kid, I remember my dad scolding my brother and me when one of us decided to hold the other one upside-down. In that position, he reasoned, we could fall on our head.
Cognition
Children Reason Differently from Adults [Video]
// Editor's note: Brain Basics from Scientific American Mind is a series of short video primers on the brain and how we feel, think and act.
The Sciences
Thank You, Guest Editor LeVar Burton
We at Scientific American share several passions with the actor, producer and educator LeVar Burton: fostering children's literacy, science, social good and education.
The Sciences
Star Trek's LeVar Burton to Be Scientific American Guest Web Editor June 11
NuqneH! Buy' ngop! That's "greetings" and "good news" in Klingon. These otherworldly tidings seem like a fitting way to let you know that LeVar Burton, who played the U.S.S.
Science Education
4 Robots That Teach Children Science and Math in Engaging Ways
Modular, programmable automatons make STEM learning fun
Dinosaurs
Kid Scientists Make Real Fossil Finds at the USA Science & Engineering Festival
Kids searching for fossils using SharkFinder kits at Scientific American’s booth at the USA Science & Engineering Festival. Credit: Jason Osborne Jason Osborne was trying to grab a quick lunch away from the crowds when his wife called his cellphone...
Scientific American at the USA Science & Engineering Festival
I’ll write a fuller post about the amazing things that kids are doing at Scientific American’s booth 1311 at the USA Science & Engineering Festival, but I wanted to share the short video below...
A Tired Game of Telephone: Scientists, Reporters, Pundits and Politics
In going after CDC study, Reuters report misrepresents WIC experts, their research. The Press Release That Started it All In February, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association on obesity prevalence that concluded: "Overall, there have been no significant changes in obesity [...]..
Cultivate Your Character [Video]
The term "character" has numerous and widely varied meanings. It defines each of these letters and symbols I am typing. It can be used to refer to features of wines, and it captures fictional folks in movies in books...
Astrophysics, Citizen Science and the Google Science Fair
Find out why Oxford University astrophysicist and founder of The Zooniverse Chris Lintott believes that humanity’s ability to be “deliciously distractable” is a creative engine powering the benefits of citizen science for discovery–and how, if you are a researcher, you might like to “play with your phyiscs.” With Google Student Ambassador Hanne Paine, we had [...]..
Mind & Brain
Calming a Child's Mind
New techniques help kids develop healthy behaviors and lasting resilience
Mind & Brain
New Strategies to Calm a Child's Mind
The essential guide to improving kid behavior and resilience
Should Children Take Antipsychotic Drugs?
Prescriptions are on the rise, but evidence for the drugs' safety and effectiveness is mixed
Google Science Fair Hangout On Air: Meet the Deep-Sea-Diving Exosuit
Scientists studying marine life now have a new tool in a next-generation atmospheric diving system called the Exosuit. The suit–which looks like something an astronaut would wear and is on display at the American Museum of Natural History until March 5–lets a diver descend to 1,000 feet at surface pressure for several hours...
Environment
Scientific American Science in Action in Swaziland
We judges and others who work on the Google Science Fair believe that kids have the power to change the world. The $50,000 Scientific American Science in Action Award recognizes a particular type of changeone that focuses on making a practical difference by addressing an environmental, health or resources challenge...
Who Needs Stimulants for ADHD?
In 1970, 150,000 U.S. children were taking stimulant medications. By 2007, that number had risen to 2.7 million, according to pediatrician Sanford Newmark of the University of California, San Francisco...
How To Coach Parents [Audio]
Most moms and dads are not taught how to parent. We are supposed to just know what to do, I suppose. But even if you have a relatively calm and obedient child, moments inevitably arise when you could really use an owners manual...
Can Chimpanzees Teach us Anything About Differences Between Boys and Girls?
Whether there exist differences between boys and girls is passionately debated (for example, see this debate about gender disparity between Stephen Pinker and Elizabeth Spelke).
Teaching Kids to Love Science, and Falling in Love with the Kids
Put a science writer in a classroom with two-dozen ten-year-olds and I promise you this: the writer will learn more than the kids. I’ve just had that experience, not for the first time but in an especially fulfilling away, while talking about science to a group of fourth and fifth graders at Public School 96 [...]..
