British readers might have caught wind of a new Guardian/Wellcome Trust Science Writing prize, aimed at finding the "next generation of undiscovered science writing talent." Since the announcement, ...

Chemotherapy might be old news, but the right approaches could dramatically improve their clinical usefulness. Credit: National Cancer Institute (via Unsplash) Around the time the Human Genome Project ...

Beginning in the 1920s, when newspapers and magazines started to showcase more stories about science, many early science journalists were women, working alongside their male colleagues despite less ...

Karin Kirk is a freelance science journalist who has built a career on icy ground. She lives in Bozeman, Montana, a corner of the northwestern United States known for its snow-capped mountains and ...

Kristel Tjandra is a chemist-turned-journalist based in the U.S. She graduated from the science communication master’s program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 2024, and writes broadly ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American It's time to step my game up. I mean that ...

Science begins with a spark of inspiration derived from a curiosity, an idea, or a fascination. A well told scientific story has the power to ignite excitement and inspire discovery in an ongoing ...