Robbie Barrat, a brilliant teen featured in the new documentary about young high-achievers, is a great reminder that kids learn in all kinds of ways. Leslie Katz led a team that explored the ...

When we recently did an overview of the evolution of bicycling technology, helmets were barely mentioned. They’ve been made out of the same materials for decades, and the only improvement they’ve seen ...

Mar. 16—It may go without saying, but the Connecticut Science Olympiad is about one thing — good competition. Still, there are some obstacles that must be navigated first before local students make ...

This microbe can survive doses of radiation that would obliterate any other living thing. Here’s what this means for science ...

In 2008, the National Academy of Sciences saw an opening for outreach: Get real science in the movies. And by November of that year, it had begun the Science and Entertainment Exchange, which offered ...

Hannah Pho grew up playing the piano and went to a magnet high school for technology. When she applied to colleges and looked for programs that blended her seemingly disparate interests, she didn’t ...

Musicians Mike Einziger and Ann Marie Simpson-Einziger have been working on a new kind of debut: A skin care brand. The husband-and-wife duo have teamed up with Jessica Goldin — an alum of Clinique, ...

This series was created for UL Research Institutes by Scientific American Custom Media, a division separate from the magazine’s board of editors. The first planes often crashed. The first boilers ...

David C. Lindberg and Ronald L. Numbers, eds. University of Chicago Press Christian faith has generally had an uneasy and sometimes extremely contentious relationship with modern science, a ...

Joe Biden has selected Dr. Eric Lander to be his Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy and presidential science adviser. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) President-elect Joe Biden ...