Young Minds

Frontiers for Young Minds celebrates first 2 publications in new specialty

July 17, 2015

With today’s publications, Frontiers for Young Minds celebrates its expansion into one of its new subject areas: Understanding the Earth and its Resources. This new specialty is led by Specialty Chief Editor Berend Smit of the EPFL and UC Berkeley. [...]

Boots or Heels: My Wardrobe Paradox as a Woman in STEM

May 1, 2015

A couple of weeks ago a wonderful hashtag was making its way around Twitter, with female scientists all over the world sharing photos of their feet to show a day #InMyShoes. [...]

Even Scientists Play With Their Food

April 30, 2015

Note: This blog post was originally published as a blog on Scientific American [...]

Aiming Too High (Or Too Low) When Communicating Science

February 27, 2015

When one of the researchers asked how you should then go about scaling up to older audiences, the speaker laughed and delivered a punchline: “You don’t.” [...]

What Rabbits and Martian Rovers Taught Me About Scale

February 20, 2015

Quite often when I am looking at photos, I just feel like something is missing. It is not a criticism of the light or the composition, but rather that something is, quite literally, missing: a scale. [...]

Frontiers for Young Minds featured in the ALSC’s Great Websites for Kids

July 21, 2014

Frontiers for Young Minds, the science education initiative where kids review articles by leading scientists, has been included in The Association for Library Service to Children’s Great Websites for Kids [...]

Frontiers for Young Minds Launches at USA Science and Engineering Festival

April 24, 2014

Frontiers for Young Minds, the science education initiative where kids review articles by leading scientists, officially launches this week at the USA Science and Engineering [...]