Comic books to get children interested in science
“It doesn't matter what your background, gender, ethnicity or socio-economic status is; if you can ask questions, you can do science.” [...]
Young Minds
Communicating advanced mathematics to kids
"I’ve often thought that we could do a lot better job of explaining “advanced” mathematical concepts in simple language for the benefit of a wider audience." [...]
Frontiers for Young Minds goes global
A new partnership with the Patrick & Lina Drahi Foundation will bring cutting-edge science to children in new languages [...]
Calling all astronomers and space scientists!
Calling all astronomers and space scientists! Can you take your most recent publications and explain it to kids or teens in under 2000 words? [...]
Tropical Biodiversity: Why should we care?
Frontiers for Young Minds announces the first Collection on Tropical Biodiversity and why we should care? Hosted by editors Ana Maria Almeida & Chelsea Specht [...]
Using Frontiers for Young Minds Articles in Your Classroom
Frontiers for Young Minds content of articles – both text and images – are free to access, download, and reproduce in educational materials. [...]
Introducing Collections from Frontiers for Young Minds
To highlight why each discovery is important with background and context, these collections of articles take non-technical readers [...]
Communicating research findings outside of the scientific community is an important and challenging part of science
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 [...]
In trying to teach kids about the brain, researchers ended up learning about themselves
The research, published in Frontiers for Young Minds, focuses on early-life nutrition and how that influences brain development, using pigs as a human proxy. [...]
Frontiers for Young Minds celebrates the publication of its 100th article!
That’s 100 articles of cutting-edge science available – for free – for kids, teens, parents, teachers, and the young-at-heart. [...]
Frontiers for Young Minds and GLOBE: An exciting new partnership
Frontiers for Young Minds is excited to announce its new partnership with The GLOBE Program! [...]
Understanding Mathematics – newest section to arrive in Frontiers for Young Minds
Frontiers for Young Minds is expanding and we are pleased to announce the launch of its newest specialty section, Understanding Mathematics. [...]
Frontiers for Young Minds welcomes new Chief Editors for Understanding the Earth and its Resources
Understanding the Earth and its Resources aims to provide up-to-date research to the next generation who will live with, and study, these planet-wide questions. [...]
The art within Microbiology, and a coloring book
Frontiers in Microbiology specialty sections are turned into fun illustrations. Enjoy, download and color them! — by Chloe Schmidt Frontiers in Microbiology Art [...]
Facing Young Reviewers in a Live Review BASF 2016
In association with the Bay Area Science Festival, Frontiers for Young Minds hosted the second edition of our annual event, held at the Chabot Space and Science center in [...]
Young Minds: Science edited by kids for kids
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. [...]
Autoimmunity: Why the Body Attacks Itself
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. [...]
Frontiers for Young Minds Live Review at the Bay Area Science Festival
Frontiers for Young Minds is excited to announce its second live review event which will take place at the Chabot Space and Science Center as part of the Bay Area Science [...]
Frontiers for Young Minds is delighted to announce our newest section – Understanding Biodiversity
Frontiers for Young Minds is proud and excited to announce the launch of its newest specialty section, Understanding Biodiversity. This new specialty will be led by the [...]
Understanding Marine Microbes, the Driving Engines of the Ocean
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 [...]
Frontiers for Young Minds celebrates its first papers in Understanding Health
Frontiers for Young Minds is growing and we are celebrating the first two papers in our youngest Specialty Section Understanding Health. This new specialty is led by our [...]
Reject or publish? Kids discuss peer-review
By Frontiers Is the paper fact or fiction? Is the paper boring? These are all things this panel of children look for when reviewing a paper for our journal for kids, [...]
Measuring the Methane Leaks to the Air from Three Large Natural Gas Production Regions
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 [...]
Autoimmunity: Why the Body Attacks Itself
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 [...]
Break it down! How scientists are making fuel out of plants
When you ride the bus to school in the morning, your journey is probably powered by diesel or gasoline, which is both made from petroleum. Petroleum is a fossil fuel, which [...]
What do “yellowballs” have to do with the birth of new stars?
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 [...]
American Indian students first to review Frontiers for Young Minds article
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 [...]
What is Peer Review? It Depends Who is Asking!
By Frontiers Frontiers for Young Minds and Knowing Neurons are excited to share the results of their collaboration on the question, “What is Peer Review?” In [...]
USA Science and Engineering Festival
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 – Expanding on the Map
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. [...]
Frontiers for Young Minds – Call for Papers
We are currently accepting articles in four disciplines: Neuroscience, Earth and its Resources, Astronomy and Space Science and Health. [...]
Frontiers for Young Minds live at the Bay Area Science Festival
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 [...]
VIDEO: The motivation behind Frontiers for Young Minds
By Frontiers 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 [...]
Trying For Fun, And Ending Up With A Textbook Instead
Note: This blog post was originally published as a blog on Scientific American – [...]
Frontiers for Young Minds celebrates first 2 publications in new specialty
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
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
Note: This blog post was originally published as a blog on Scientific American [...]
Aiming Too High (Or Too Low) When Communicating Science
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
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
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
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 [...]