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Good science education at the earliest grades is supremely important,but in most classrooms it gets short shrift. **Studies **h...

To the editors of *Scientific American***:**

Your Perspectives column in the March 2010issue should be required reading for...

We live in a multilingual world. It is not uncommon to walk down the
street in any U.S. city and hear several different languag...

Couples in low-conflict but unhappy marriages often are
well advised to try to keep the family together.

During tough times i...

More than one in ten children are starting school without the social skills they need to benefit from education, according to a ...

The increase in childhood depression is difficult to understand.

It’s
tempting to attribute the increase to factors beyond ou...