There’s a well-known story in Plato’s Republic in which a humble shepherd named Gyges finds a magical gold ring that renders whoever wears it invisible. Gyges proceeds to use his newfound power to ...

Frank Täufer, a scientific assistant at Campus Wiesengut—the University of Bonn's ecological teaching and research farm—asked a group of visiting 8-year-olds to speculate on why the rye plants in his ...

Thousands gathered in the Court of Sciences on Nov. 5 for the 2023 Exploring Your Universe science fair. Attendees crowded around chemistry sets and telescopes at EYU, UCLA’s largest science fair held ...

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL EXEMPLAR 1: SEEDS OF SCIENCE/ROOTS OF READING Jacqueline Barber, Lawrence Hall of Science at University of California, Berkeley, shared her insights into developing Seeds of ...

As educators (and the rest of society) struggle to frame the conversations we are having with other educators and students about the potential and pitfalls of generative AI being introduced into the ...

Each April, the North Carolina Science Festival brings science out of labs and into communities across the state, turning everyday spaces into places for discovery. Organized by the Morehead ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Nepali researcher Sanjeeta Sharma Pokharel explores Asian elephant physiology and behavior in response to ecological challenges, emphasizing the ...

This post was updated Nov. 11 at 11:44 p.m. UCLA’s Court of Sciences teemed with activity Sunday as about 12,000 people attended the university’s largest annual science fair. Exploring Your Universe, ...

After graduating from UCSC, Jonathan Trent got a Ph.D. from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, worked abroad for some years in microbiology, and worked at NASA for 21 years. For Jonathan Trent ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, this is Rachel Feltman. As most of you listening to this probably know, I’m pretty into podcasts. But my first experiences with the format—or ...

Text and talk in the science classroom constitute two of the primary vehicles by which students gain knowledge and make meaning. Yet, both involve the unique language of science. Presentations focused ...