Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. Hello and happy new year! I love the first few days of a new year. It evokes a feeling ...

Did you know you could contribute to scientific discovery without a Ph.D? In fact, all you really need is a curious mind, and maybe a good pair of boots. Citizen science is the practice of everyday ...

Chemists use many strategies so their experiments are as safe as possible. They think about what they can do to keep themselves and the people around them safe and then they do these things. You ...