STEM Careers
- Planets
Cool Jobs: Exploring the solar system
Meet three scientists who explore the solar system. Their jobs range from steering a spacecraft to chasing solar eclipses around the world.
- Animals
Profile: A human touch for animals
Temple Grandin uses her own autism to understand how animals think. The animal scientist is famous for fostering the humane treatment of livestock.
- Physics
Profile: Looking for life beyond the solar system
Planetary scientist and astrophysicist Sara Seager is a leader in the search for signs of life on planets beyond our solar system.
- Chemistry
Cool Jobs: Saving precious objects
Museum conservators are experts at protecting and restoring precious objects. Along with art or history, many also have studied chemistry, physics, archaeology or other scientific fields.
- Materials Science
Cool Jobs: Big future for super small science
Scientists using nanotechnology grow super-small but very useful tubes with walls no more than a few carbon atoms thick. Find out why as we meet three scientists behind this huge new movement in nanoscience.
- Science & Society
Explainer: Some schools already teach future studies
Good preparation for working in this field may require more than a firm grounding in science or engineering.
- Science & Society
Explainer: Inspirations — from Tom Swift to tomatoes
Childhood interests may lead to a career imagining how the future could play out
- Chemistry
Cool Jobs: Repellent chemistry
Chemistry is just one way to repel water in nature. Structure, or the shape of things, is another. To excel at water repellency, the lotus leaf relies on both.
- Health & Medicine
Cool Jobs: Sports science
From soccer teams to the balance beam, scientists help athletes perform their best.
- Agriculture
Cool Jobs: Green Science
In parts of the Arctic, entire forests are creeping northward. Luckily, ecologist Serge Payette is hot on their trail.
- Animals
Cool Jobs: Museum science
Samples collected long ago may hold answers to important questions in science and medicine today.
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Engineering: The route to problem-solving
Young researchers learn how math and science are used in the real world, from protecting eggs to delivering tap water.
