Mona Minkara is in her office with multicolored molecular-model supplies on her desk. Her eyes peek out through holes in a red-and-white model she is inspecting with her hands. The model is about the ...

Manu Prakash works on the world’s most urgent problems and seemingly frivolous questions at the same time. They add up to a philosophy he calls “recreational biology.” Inside Manu Prakash are two ...

As technology developers and researchers rush to develop autonomous AI research tools (i.e., systems that independently ...

Folco Panizza is assistant professor of prosocial behaviour and decision making at the IMT School for Advanced Studies in Lucca, Italy. Surveys are a cornerstone of social-science research. Over the ...

During my time as a kindergarten teacher, I learned three major lessons about our youngest learners’ relationship to science. Specifically, I learned that elementary school students are predisposed to ...

Several years ago, during a flight from Houston to Paris, I had a conversation with the CEO of a prominent Houston-based company. When I mentioned that I was a teacher, I asked him, “What skills do ...