The essays in a new anthology offer two distinct ways of interpreting the Promethean legacy of scientific progress.

Mason Wakley graduated from the University of Oxford, UK, in 2024, with a degree in chemistry. A year later, in the summer of ...

As a gifted science communicator, Grace Huckins — a lecturer in the Civic, Liberal, and Global Education Program at Stanford University and a freelance science writer — recently won The Nine Dots ...

In her award-winning essay, young British science writer Hasset Kifle from Stoke on Trent used her personal experience as a competitive runner as her starting point for her article about the impact of ...

The popular science writer, whose new book is “Replaceable You,” has steadily offered an embarrassment of trivia while going deep on our insides, outsides and more. Credit... Supported by By Sadie ...

It’s been more than half a century since the publication of Silent Spring by the scientist and creative writer Rachel Carson. The seminal volume caught the attention of U.S. presidents, artists and ...

“Your chance of becoming a professor is 0.45%.” That’s the type of statistic that stops even the most stats-inclined PhD in her tracks. For early-career researchers and doctoral graduates, the truth ...

It’s late on a Wednesday night, and I’m replaying the conversation I just had with a student in Mann. They’d been working tirelessly for their project team, iGEM, and their excitement was truly ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American In the series, "From The Writer's Desk," I'll ...

Liz Fuller-Wright, a science writer for the University's Office of Communications, is always exploring new worlds and learning new things. As an undergraduate at Amherst College, she majored in ...