Science is probably the most misquoted field in all of human conversation. Not because people are trying to be dishonest, but ...

Sterling Martin found that when he returned home to Shiprock while studying biochemistry at the University of Iowa, he had difficulty communicating his work to his family in their native tongue.

Not all microbes are pathogens (but this one, the mpox virus, is). When scientists use these words, they typically mean something completely different than what they do when non-scientists use them.

The Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Language Project is working to scrub “harmful” language from science. Earlier this month, several Ph.D.-wielding assistant professors, post-doctoral fellows, and ...

Growing up in the Navajo tradition, there was a distance between science and the culture. Project ENABLE was created to make scientific information accessible to Navajo communities. The Project ENABLE ...

To his peers in Shiprock, New Mexico, he was known as “the detective.” As a kid, he was always asking questions, wondering how things worked and why. “That’s probably where (my love of science) ...

Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific publications (many of them can be found at www ...

AMONG the scientific questions which the International Institute of Intellectual Co-operation has been asked to examine is the co-ordination of scientific terminology. Various international ...