On a gray Montana morning, I sat with the science writer David Quammen in the office of his Bozeman home, each of us in opposite corners and wearing masks. Quammen’s rescue python, Boots, who was ...

Science fiction author Ted Chiang wrote the short story that became the movie "Arrival." He talks with host Scott Detrow. If, like me, you are a fan of the science fiction author Ted Chiang, you know ...

The Purdue Presidential Lecture Series kicked off Thursday evening to celebrate the United States’ 250th anniversary. Purdue ...

When a science writer visits a brewery, they ask a lot of astute chemistry questions. When a science writer meets an astronaut, they ask a propulsion question (and yes, get a selfie). When they hike ...

Science writing is a peculiar genre, conceivable only in a society so highly technologized that much of what it knows about the world falls outside the comprehension of the vast majority of its ...

The conversation among scientists themselves has not yet included learning from science writers and editors themselves, and thus this new volume, in my view, is important to read for scientists to ...

CU Boulder and the CU Anschutz Medical Campus are preparing to welcome hundreds of science journalists and communicators from around the country as this year’s ScienceWriters 2023 conference taking ...

The University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University won’t be teaming up to host a national science writers conference they’d initially committed to support. Sandeep Ravindran, president of the ...