Scientific American Soiree Celebrates 170 Years of Science Communication
The event featured historical artifacts from the magazine’s long history as well as a presentation by Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina
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Scientific American, on the Move
170 Years, 11 locations—A map of Scientific American's wanderings around Manhattan
How to Revamp Education for 21st-Century Learners
Big names in education, technology and public plicy gather at Scientific American's STEM Executive Summit to advance a bold new vision for education
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Quantum Shorts 2014 Winners [Video]
The word "quantum" describes something very small but interest in the topic looms large for many of us at Scientific American. So we were pleased this year to partner again with the Centre for Quantum Technologies at the National University of Singapore on the Quantum Shorts 2014 Contest.
Hangout with Nobel Laureate Elizabeth Blackburn: Can Cells Live Forever?
Elizabeth Blackburn of the University of California at San Francisco, who shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Carol Greider of Johns Hopkins University and Jack Szostak of Harvard University, was fascinated about animals and life while growing up in Tasmania.
Scenes from the White House Science Fair
At the fifth annual White House Science Fair on March 23, 2015, some 30 students shared their hard work on their research projects and collected insights.
Hangout with Kit Parker: Engineering the Body
When I told Kit Parker of Harvard University to think about explaining what he does to teenagers who would be watching our Google Science Fair Hangout On Air earlier today, he had a great answer for me: “My job is to work on cool.” Among Parker’s many “cool” research passions are understanding cardiac cell biology [...]
The Science of Learning and Trying
To really change the future of education for the better, we need a combination of creative vision powered by the social entrepreneurship of education leaders and teachers.
Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2015
What innovations are leaping out of the labs to shape the world in powerful ways? Identifying those compelling innovations is the charge of the Meta-Council on Emerging Technologies, one of the World Economic Forum’s network of expert communities that form the Global Agenda Councils, which today released its Top 10 List of Emerging Technologies for [...]
15 Surprises about Scientific American
Scientific American's parent company, Macmillan Science & Education strives to be both a place where curious minds gather together to achieve great things for our customers—and where we can, working together as a company, be more than the sum of our parts.
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