Science has been molded along the years by man's intrinsic curiosity and need to understand what is happening around him. It has germinated from our necessity to comprehend how things work and to ...

So, if it doesn't matter what we are, why am I going on about whether Nature considers us a blog? In short, because they're about as high profile as you get in the science world, and being featured by ...

[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 ...

If you enjoyed this article, I’d like to ask for your support. Scientific American has served as an advocate for science and industry for 180 years, and right now may be the most critical moment in ...

To blog, or not to blog? Young scientists and aspiring writers and communicators ask me this question frequently. If they want to try their hand at science writing, science communication and science ...

Love them or loathe them, there's no denying that life sciences blogs are having an influence on the way researchers communicate about issues that matter to them. With the number of blogs steadily ...

Follow The Daily Cosmos on Instagram Colorized images of space are a bit of a guilty pleasure—awe-inspiring, but they also remind us of a cheap space-cowboy book cover, somehow. Whatever. If you can’t ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. According to “techy historians,” there were around twenty-three blogs in 1998. As of mid-February, there ...

For decades, science journalism has held a key position in conveying the ongoing endeavor of research to the public. A number of trends, some of which we've discussed here, have seriously eroded that ...

2. What will you never write about? DANGER! Danger Will Robinson! Probability of looking like an idiot in the future: high! Avert! Avert! Ahem. You’ll notice that this blog is about new research. I ...

I am sitting on a train between Boston and Washington, D.C. I just left the American Meteorological Society’s (AMS) Annual Meeting. It was a week of stimulating science engagement and learning. As ...