Young Minds

Frontiers for Young Minds takes this one step further, by asking authors to explain their published articles in a language that 8-15 year olds can understand. This is put to [...]

Frontiers for Young Minds is excited to announce its new partnership with The GLOBE Program! [...]

Frontiers for Young Minds provides a collection of freely available scientific articles by scientists that are shaped for younger audiences by their own young peers. [...]

Sometimes macrophages are given the wrong signals and they attack healthy cells. When this happens, your body develops a reaction that can lead to autoimmunity. [...]

When you hear the word microbes, what comes to your mind? Something much too small to see and that makes you fall ill? Just because some microbes cause diseases that does not mean they are all evil. For example, in the marine (ocean) environment, the vast majority of microbes are good ones [...]

In the coming years, humans will have choices to make about where we get the fuel that powers our lights for us to see at night, our stoves for our hot meals, our water [...]

The human body is made up of 37 trillion cells and billions of these die every single day. The body has special cells, called macrophages, which consume dying cells to [...]

Where do stars come from? Human beings have thought about this question for thousands of years and have proposed many different explanations, but scientists have only had the [...]

by Amee Hennig, associate Editor for Frontiers for Young Minds When asked where the science in your text book comes from, students often don’t have an answer. It was no [...]

Frontiers for Young Minds is proud to be an Official Partner of the 4th USA Science & Engineering Festival, to be held April 16-17, 2016 in Washington, D.C. What is the [...]

Frontiers for Young Minds is excited to be expanding its reach once again. Already it has expanded into four disciplines, and now it has expanded its footprint on the map. [...]

We are currently accepting articles in four disciplines: Neuroscience, Earth and its Resources, Astronomy and Space Science and Health. [...]

Frontiers for Young Minds is excited to bring its team together for a live event as part of the Bay Area Science Festival. Three scientists will not only be writing about [...]

Frontiers for Young Minds from Frontiers on Vimeo. Frontiers for Young Minds is a non-profit scientific journal written by scientists for young people, but with an innovative [...]

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

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. [...]

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. [...]

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

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