I have often wanted to sink my teeth into real writing by real scientists, but I don't feel qualified to dig through the endless of pages of writing to find snippets that get to the point. I don't ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ed Yong reveals how he compiled The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2021 all while wrestling with the idea of what it means to be a science writer. The ...

[Portion of cover art of Zombie Tits, Astronaut Fish and Other Weird Animals by Becky Crew. Please click image to see full cover art.] What I'm going to talk about here are the things that I've found ...

Last week there was an exchange that brought out the clear distinction between writing about social sciences and science. On May 22, 2014, Shubashree Desikan wrote an interesting piece titled ‘ >A new ...

Brian Cox, Garry Kasparov, Gaia Vince and other stars of science writing pick the books that fired their imaginations Cosmologist Sean Carroll’s book The Big Picture is about the origin of the ...

This article discusses science writing as a possible “hobby” to keep one’s mind curious and active in retirement. The author, a retired regulatory professional, explains how he finds interesting ...

The heart of both science and journalism is inquiry—asking questions in ways that will hopefully get you the answers you are looking for. Although science writing might on the face of it largely seem ...

Zoe Doubleday receives funding from The Australian Research Council. Sean Connell receives funding from The Australian Research Council, The Ian Potter Foundation and the Department of Water, ...