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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

About a year ago, in this very blog, I wrote a response to a journal editor's complaint about science bloggers. My post was both a defense of science blogging and a critique of long-standing ...

Allison McDonald has had a lot on her mind lately. She has ruminated on the common mistakes that students make when defending their theses, the identification of the flies that have invaded her office ...