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Only SoTS members can submit work for publication.

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How to submit

What we publish

Popular science explainers, essays, opinion pieces, interviews, research stories, and science fiction. Work should be clear, engaging, and accessible to a scientifically literate audience. Formal academic tone is not required, but intellectual rigor and factual accuracy are. Science art, music, and comedy have their own contests at our annual conference.

Who can submit

Submissions are accepted from SoTS members only.

If you are not currently a SoTS member, you must become a member before submitting a pitch or video. Membership is earned through a fit evaluation.

There is no submission or publication fee for members.

Pitch first

Before you submit a finished piece, email a short pitch to editor@teenscientists.org describing what you want to write and why it matters to teen scientists. Include an estimated length (typically 800-2000 words).

What happens next

Our editorial team reviews pitches within 5-7 business days. If approved, you will receive instructions to submit your full piece. Citations should follow APA format where applicable. There is no fee at any stage.

Rights and license

Everything we publish is open access under a Creative Commons BY 4.0 license. You keep the copyright to your work. Anyone may read, share, and build on it as long as they credit you. Submitting means agreeing to publish on those terms.

Latest Articles

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A student considers two paths that converge, one through an academic arch and one through books, equations, and physics experiments
Alpaca French

Brand and Mastery

America runs two meritocracies. One rewards the ability to win selection. The other rewards the ability to make things happen. Each has its own story.

Alpaca French
Oct 2, 20267 min read
Half a human face beside a glowing neural network, the brain and its neurons dissolving into the stacked layers of a convolutional network
Science Writing

To What Extent Do the Neural Networks Used in AI Mimic the Human Brain?

Irene ChiandettiSoTS member
Aug 11, 20263 min read
Anime-style illustration: a teenage scientist holds up a single tiny silicon chip on a fingertip while a glowing magnified circle reveals the vast nanoscale circuitry hidden inside it, the staggering complexity packed into something smaller than a wavelength of light.
Alpaca French

Carved by a Light Too Fat to Carve It

A transistor is smaller than the wavelength of light used to print it. The physics says that should be impossible. Here is how chipmakers route around every clause of the law that forbids it.

Alpaca French
May 25, 202610 min read
Hands holding fresh white snow with untouched snow in the background appearing gray
Research Question

The Dirty Snow Illusion

When your brain labels clean snow as contaminated

Dr. Sergey Samsonau
Feb 5, 20262 min read
Teenagers gathered around a workbench on a lush alien world with purple trees, treehouses, and planets visible in the sky. A sign reads: No grades, no exams, no limits.
Science Fiction

Dancing Between Worlds

A tale of teen scientists, stolen schematics, and a moss-green planet called Vesper

Florence Cole
Jan 30, 202610 min read