“As scientists, we are trained to speak in jargon and not to think about our audience,” says Smith astronomy professor James Lowenthal. “Bottom line: we need to become better communicators.” During a ...

Ms. Seo, 45 years old, a homemaker living in Gwangmyeong, Gyeonggi Province, was startled when she recently saw her middle ...

One of the challenges that can arise in communicating science and other forms of scholarship to non-experts is the jargon involved. But the most dangerous kind of jargon isn't the kind we notice. It's ...

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In this week's Science for All newsletter, Vasudevan Mukunth looks at a new study detailing the prevalence of tilings in nature, which is surprisingly more widespread than previously believed.

The United States may be mildly embarrassed about its difficulties with science and technology literacy, but it is still struggling with how to fix it. A perspective published in Science tackles one ...

In this week's Science for All newsletter, Vasudevan Mukunth explains latest updates on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, and what ...

I don’t know about you but I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve heard people in the startup world string meaningless words together. “Enable best-of-breed convergence,” and “synthesize ...

From ancient aliens to UFO conspiracies, here's how to spot pseudoscience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Ancient aliens.

Making science education more appealing to students might require us to deal with the field's often bewildering use of language. Use more ink. Reading technical work is overly challenging when you don ...