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Popular science, sometimes called literature of science, is interpretation of science
Science

In its broadest sense, science refers to any systematic knowledge or practice. In its more usual restricted sense, science refers to a system of acquiring knowledge based on scientific method, as well as to the organized body of knowledge gained through such research....
 intended for a general audience. While science journalism
Science journalism

Science journalism is a relatively new branch of journalism, which uses the art of reporting to convey information about science topics to a public forum....
 focuses on recent scientific developments, popular science is broad-ranging, often written by scientists as well as journalists, and is presented in many formats, which can include books, television documentaries, magazine articles and web pages.

lar science is a bridge between scientific literature
Scientific literature

Scientific literature comprises scientific publications that report original empirical and theoretical work in the natural science and social sciences, and within a scientific field is often abbreviated as the literature....
 as a professional medium of scientific research, and the realms of popular political and cultural discourse.






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Popular science, sometimes called literature of science, is interpretation of science
Science

In its broadest sense, science refers to any systematic knowledge or practice. In its more usual restricted sense, science refers to a system of acquiring knowledge based on scientific method, as well as to the organized body of knowledge gained through such research....
 intended for a general audience. While science journalism
Science journalism

Science journalism is a relatively new branch of journalism, which uses the art of reporting to convey information about science topics to a public forum....
 focuses on recent scientific developments, popular science is broad-ranging, often written by scientists as well as journalists, and is presented in many formats, which can include books, television documentaries, magazine articles and web pages.

Role

Popular science is a bridge between scientific literature
Scientific literature

Scientific literature comprises scientific publications that report original empirical and theoretical work in the natural science and social sciences, and within a scientific field is often abbreviated as the literature....
 as a professional medium of scientific research, and the realms of popular political and cultural discourse. It generally attempts to wield the authority of science, sometimes even on social and political issues, but in a manner different from professional science. Many science-related controversies are discussed in popular science books and publications, such as the long-running debates over biological determinism
Biological determinism

Biological determinism, also called genetic determinism, is the hypothesis that biological factors such as an organism's individual genes completely determine how a system behaves or changes over time....
 and the biological components of intelligence, stirred by popular books such as The Mismeasure of Man
The Mismeasure of Man

The Mismeasure of Man is a controversial 1981 book written by the Harvard University paleontology Stephen Jay Gould . The book is a History of science and critique of the methods and motivations underlying biological determinism, the belief that "the social and economic differences between human groups—primarily Race , Social clas...
 and The Bell Curve
The Bell Curve

The Bell Curve is a controversial book, best-selling 1994 book by the late Harvard University psychologist Richard Herrnstein and American Enterprise Institute political scientist Charles Murray ....
.

The purpose of scientific literature is to inform and persuade peers as to the validity of observations and conclusions and the forensic efficacy of methods. Popular science attempts to inform and convince scientific outsiders (sometimes along with scientists in other fields) of the significance of data and conclusions and to celebrate the results through epideictic
Epideictic

Epideictic or praise and blame rhetoric is one of the three branches, or "species" , of rhetoric as outlined in Aristotle's Rhetoric ....
 rhetoric. Statements in scientific literature are often qualified and tentative, emphasizing that new observations and results are consistent with and similar to established knowledge wherein qualified scientists are assumed to recognize the relevance. By contrast, popular science emphasizes uniqueness and generality, taking a tone of factual authority absent from the scientific literature. Comparisons between original scientific reports and derivative science journalism and popular science typically reveal at least some level of distortion and oversimplification which can often be quite dramatic, even with politically neutral scientific topics.

Popular science literature can be written by non-scientists who may have a limited understanding of the subject they are interpreting and it can be difficult for non-experts to identify misleading popular science, which may also blur the boundaries between formal science and pseudoscience
Pseudoscience

Pseudoscience is any knowledge, methodology, belief, or practice that is claimed to be scientific, or that is made to appear to be scientific, but which does not adhere to the scientific method, lacks supporting evidence or plausibility, or otherwise lacks scientific status....
.

Common threads

Some common traits of popular science productions include:
  • Bridging the is-ought gap
    Is-ought problem

    In meta-ethics, the is-ought problem was raised by David Hume , who noted that many writers make claims about what ought to be, on the basis of statements about what is....
  • Entertainment value or personal relevance to the audience
  • Emphasis on uniqueness and radicalness
  • Exploring ideas overlooked by specialists or falling outside of established disciplines
  • Generalized, simplified science concepts
  • Presented for an audience with little or no science background, hence explaining general concepts more thoroughly
  • Synthesis of new ideas that cross multiple fields and offer new applications in other academic specialties
  • Use of metaphors and analogies to explain difficult and/or abstract scientific concepts
  • Very limited mathematical formulas or complicating details


Notable popularizers of science

  • James Burke
    James Burke

    James Burke may refer to:*James Burke , British author and TV producer*James Burke , English*James E. Burke , CEO of Johnson & Johnson*James F....
    , BBC science historian best know for the series Connections
  • John Acorn
    John Acorn

    John Acorn, also known as The Nature Nut, is a naturalist who is known for his inspiring personality and infectious love of nature. He is a local Edmonton celebrity, combining folk music with educational lyrics about the natural world....
    , naturalist and broadcaster known as the "Nature Nut"
  • Amir Aczel
    Amir Aczel

    Amir D. Aczel is a lecturer in mathematics and the history of mathematics and science, and an author of popular books on mathematics and science....
    , author and mathematician
  • Isaac Asimov
    Isaac Asimov

    Isaac Asimov , was a Russian-born United States author and professor of biochemistry, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books....
    , author and biochemist
  • David Attenborough
    David Attenborough

    Sir David Frederick Attenborough Order of Merit, Order of the Companions of Honour, Royal Victorian Order, Order of the British Empire, Fellow of the Royal Society is a broadcasting and naturalist....
    , broadcaster and naturalist
  • Johnny Ball
    Johnny Ball

    Johnny Ball is a United Kingdom television personality, a great popular mathematics and the father of former BBC Radio 1 DJ, and TV host, Zo? Ball....
    , broadcaster and maths addict
  • David Bellamy
    David Bellamy

    David J. Bellamy Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom botanist, author, Presenter, and natural environmental campaigner....
    , broadcaster, author, and botanist
  • David Bodanis
    David Bodanis

    David Bodanis is one of the world's top futurists. After a distinguished early career at Oxford, where he lectured on geopolitical trends, David worked for Shell's renowned scenario unit on the impact of technology on economic and social developments....
    , author
  • Bill Bryson
    Bill Bryson

    William McGuire "Bill" Bryson, Order of the British Empire, is a best-selling United States author of humorous books on travel, as well as books on the English language and on science subjects....
    , author
  • Fritjof Capra
    Fritjof Capra

    Fritjof Capra is an Austrian-born United States physicist.Born in Vienna, Austria, Capra earned a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Vienna in 1966....
    , physicist and author
  • Brian Clegg
    Brian Clegg

    Brian Clegg is an English author and popular science writer. He has written a range of popular science books, covering topics including light, infinity, quantum entanglement and surviving the impact of climate change, and biographies of Roger Bacon and Eadweard Muybridge....
    , author
  • Jack Cohen
    Jack Cohen (scientist)

    Jack Cohen, Institute of Biology#Fellowship is a United Kingdom reproduction biology also known for his popular science books and involvement with science fiction....
    , reproductive biologist
  • Brian Cox (physicist)
    Brian Cox (physicist)

    Brian Cox, also known as B. E. Cox , is a physicist, a Royal Society research fellow, and a professor at the University of Manchester. He is a member of the High energy physics group at the University of Manchester, and works on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, CERN near Geneva, Switzerland....
    , Broadcaster, musician and physicist
  • Paul Davies
    Paul Davies

    Paul Charles William Davies Order of Australia is a British-born physicist, writer and Presenter, currently a professor at Arizona State University as well as the Director of BEYOND: Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science....
    , physicist, author and broadcaster
  • Richard Dawkins
    Richard Dawkins

    Clinton Richard Dawkins, Royal Society#Fellowship, Royal Society of Literature is a United Kingdom ethology, evolutionary biology and popular science author....
    , evolutionary biologist and author
  • Jared Diamond
    Jared Diamond

    Jared Mason Diamond is an American evolutionary biologist, physiologist, biogeography, lecturer, and nonfiction author. Diamond works as a professor of geography and physiology at University of California, Los Angeles....
    , evolutionary biologist, physiologist, biogeographer and author
  • Sir Arthur Eddington, astrophysicist
  • Peter Fairley
    Peter Fairley

    During the late sixties and early seventies, Peter Fairley was the Science Editor for Independent Television News and TV Times magazine....
    , journalist and broadcaster
  • Michael Faraday
    Michael Faraday

    Michael Faraday, Fellow of the Royal Society was an English chemist and physicist who contributed to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry....
    , scientist and lecturer
  • Richard Feynman
    Richard Feynman

    Richard Phillips Feynman was an United States physicist known for the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as work in particle physics ....
    , physicist and author
  • George Gamow
    George Gamow

    George Gamow , born Georgiy Antonovich Gamov , was a Russian Empire-born theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He discovered quantum tunneling and worked on radioactive decay of the atomic nucleus, stellar evolution, stellar nucleosynthesis, big bang nucleosynthesis, nucleocosmogenesis and genetics....
    , physicist and cosmologist
  • Martin Gardner
    Martin Gardner

    Martin Gardner is a popular American mathematics and science writer specializing in recreational mathematics, but with interests encompassing magic , pseudoscience, literature , philosophy, scientific skepticism, and religion....
    , mathematician and author
  • Ben Goldacre
    Ben Goldacre

    Ben Goldacre is a United Kingdom medical physician and journalist, and the author of the The Guardian newspaper's weekly Bad Science column....
    , GP
  • Stephen Jay Gould
    Stephen Jay Gould

    Stephen Jay Gould was a prominent American Paleontology, Evolution, and History of science. He was also one of the most influential and widely read writers of popular science of his generation....
    , paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and science historian
  • Brian Greene
    Brian Greene

    Brian Greene is a theoretical physicist and one of the best-known Super-string theory. Since 1996 he has been a professor at Columbia University....
    , physicist
  • John Gribbin
    John Gribbin

    John R. Gribbin is a United Kingdom science writer and a visiting Fellow in astronomy at the University of Sussex....
    , astronomer and author
  • Heinz Haber
    Heinz Haber

    Heinz Haber was a Germany physicist and science writer who primarily became famous for his TV programs and books about physics and natural environment subjects....
    , physicist and author
  • Bas Haring
    Bas Haring

    Sebastiaan Haring is a The Netherlands philosopher and writer of popular science and children's literature. He holds the Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Leiden....
    , philosopher and author
  • Stephen Hawking
    Stephen Hawking

    Stephen William Hawking Companion of Honour, Commander of the British Empire, Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy is a British Theoretical physics....
    , theoretical physicist and author
  • Don Herbert
    Don Herbert

    Donald Jeffrey Herbert , better known as "Mr. Wizard", was an United States television personality. He hosted of two Television in the United States shows about science aimed at children's television....
    , aka Mr. Wizard, broadcaster
  • Douglas Hofstadter
    Douglas Hofstadter

    Douglas Richard Hofstadter is an United States academic whose research focuses on consciousness, thinking and creativity. He is best known for G?del, Escher, Bach, first published in 1979, for which he was awarded the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction....
    , computer scientist, cognitive scientist, and author
  • Jay Ingram
    Jay Ingram

    Jay Ingram is a Canadian author and broadcaster. He has been host of the television show Daily Planet , which airs on Discovery Channel Canada, since the channel's inception in 1995....
    , broadcaster and author
  • Steve Jones
    Steve Jones (biologist)

    Steve Jones, is a professor of genetics and head of the biology department at University College London. His studies are conducted in the Francis Galton laboratory....
    , evolutionary biologist and author
  • Horace Freeland Judson
    Horace Freeland Judson

    Horace Freeland Judson is a historian of molecular biology and the author of several books, including The Eighth Day of Creation, a history of molecular biology, and The Great Betrayal: Fraud In Science, an examination of the deliberate manipulation of scientific data....
    , historian of molecular biology and author
  • Olivia Judson
    Olivia Judson

    Olivia Judson is an evolutionary biology at Imperial College London. Judson, who is the daughter of science historian Horace Freeland Judson, was a pupil of W.D....
    , evolutionary biologist, broadcaster, and author
  • Michio Kaku
    Michio Kaku

    is a Japanese people-United States theoretical physics specializing in string field theory, and a futurist. He is a popular science, host of two Radio programmings, and a best-selling author....
    , theoretical physicist and author
  • Lawrence Krauss, physicist and author
  • Karl Kruszelnicki
    Karl Kruszelnicki

    Karl Sven Woytek Sas Konkovitch Matthew Kruszelnicki, Order of Australia is a scientist, who is best known as an author and science commentator on Australian radio and television....
    , aka Dr Karl, broadcaster
  • Richard Lewontin
    Richard Lewontin

    Richard Charles "Dick" Lewontin is an United States evolutionary biologist, geneticist and social commentator. A leader in developing the mathematical basis of population genetics and evolutionary theory, he pioneered the notion of using techniques from molecular biology such as gel electrophoresis to apply to questions of genetic variation...
    , evolutionary biologist, geneticist and author
  • Chris Lintott
    Chris Lintott

    Chris Lintott is an astrophysicist. He is a post-doctoral researcher who is involved in a number of popular science projects aimed at bringing Astronomy to a wider audience....
    , astrophysicist
  • Robert A. J. Matthews
    Robert Matthews (scientist)

    Robert A.J. Matthews, born 23 September 1959, is a British physicist, mathematician, computer scientist, and journalist.Robert Matthews read Physics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Oxford University, where he graduated in 1981....
    , physicist, mathematician, computer scientist, and journalist
  • Bob McDonald, CBC journalist and host of Quirks and Quarks
  • Fulvio Melia
    Fulvio Melia

    Fulvio Melia is an Italy-United States physicist/astrophysicist and author. He is Professor of Physics and Astronomy at theUniversity of Arizona and Associate Editor of the Astrophysical Journal Letters....
    , physicist, astrophysicist and author
  • Julius Sumner Miller
    Julius Sumner Miller

    Professor Julius Sumner Miller , was an United States science popularizer. He is best known for his work on children's television programs....
    , broadcaster
  • Sir Patrick Moore
    Patrick Moore

    Sir Alfred Patrick Caldwell-Moore, Commander of the British Empire, Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society, Royal Astronomical Society known as Patrick Moore, is an England Amateur astronomy who has attained prominent status in astronomy as a writer, researcher, radio commentator and television presenter of the subject and who is credite...
    , amateur astronomer and broadcaster
  • Desmond Morris
    Desmond Morris

    Desmond John Morris is most famous for his work as a zoology and ethology, but is also known as a surrealism and author....
    , zoologist, ethologist, and author.
  • PZ Myers
    PZ Myers

    Paul Zachary "PZ" Myers is an United States biology professor at the University of Minnesota Morris and the author of the science blog Pharyngula ....
    , professor and author of the science blog Pharyngula
    Pharyngula

    In developmental biology, the pharyngula is a stage in embryonic development. Named by William Ballard, the pharyngula stage follows the blastula, gastrula and neurula stages....
  • Jayant Narlikar
    Jayant Narlikar

    Professor Jayant Vishnu Narlikar is an Indian astrophysics. Narlikar is a defender of the Steady state theory. His work on conformal gravity theory with Fred Hoyle, called Hoyle-Narlikar theory, demonstrated a synthesis can be achieved between Albert Einstein?s theory of relativity and Mach's principle....
    , Cosmologist and author
  • Bill Nye
    Bill Nye

    William Sanford Nye also known as "Bill Nye the Science Guy," is an United States comedian, Television program, Science education and mechanical engineer....
    , broadcaster and mechanical engineer known as the "Science Guy"
  • Tor Nørretranders
    Tor Nørretranders

    Tor N?rretranders is a Denmark author of popular science. He was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. His books and lectures have primarily been focused on science and its role in society, often with N?rretranders' own advice about how society should integrate new findings in science....
    , author
  • John Allen Paulos
    John Allen Paulos

    John Allen Paulos is a professor of mathematics at Temple University in Philadelphia who has gained fame as a writer and speaker on mathematics and the importance of numeracy....
    , mathematician and author
  • Fred Pearce
    Fred Pearce

    Fred Pearce is an English author and journalist based in London. He has been described as one of Britain's finest science writers and has reported on environment, popular science and development issues from 64 countries over the past 20 years....
    , journalist at New Scientist
  • Yakov I. Perelman
    Yakov I. Perelman

    Yakov Isidorovich Perelman was a Russian author of many popular science books. Works include Physics Can Be Fun and Mathematics Can Be Fun ....
    , author
  • Steven Pinker
    Steven Pinker

    Steven Arthur Pinker is a prominent Canadian-American experimental psychology, cognitive science, and author of popular science. Pinker is known for his wide-ranging advocacy of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind....
    , experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist and author
  • Robert Pollack
    Robert Pollack

    Robert Pollack may refer to:*Robert Pollack , an American biologist*Rocky Pollack, a Manitoba judge...
    , biologist and author
  • Magnus Pyke
    Magnus Pyke

    Dr. Magnus Alfred Pyke was a United Kingdom science and media figure, who, although apparently quite eccentric and playing up to the mad scientist stereotype, succeeded in explaining science to a lay audience....
    , author
  • V. S. Ramachandran, neuroscientist, cognitive scientist and author
  • Matt Ridley
    Matt Ridley

    Matthew White Ridley is an English journalist, science writer, businessman and aristocrat. Ridley was educated at Eton College and Magdalen College, Oxford where he received a doctorate in zoology before commencing a career in journalism....
    , zoologist, journalist and author
  • Steven Rose
    Steven Rose

    Steven P. Rose is a Professor of Biology and Neurobiology at the Open University and University of London. Rose studied biochemistry at King's College, Cambridge, and neurobiology at Cambridge and the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London....
    , biologist, neurobiologist, broadcaster and author
  • Oliver Sacks
    Oliver Sacks

    Oliver Wolf Sacks, Doctor of Medicine, Royal College of Physicians, Order of the British Empire , is a British neurologist residing in New York City....
    , neurologist and author
  • Carl Sagan
    Carl Sagan

    Carl Edward Sagan, Ph.D. was an United States astronomer, Astrochemistry, author, and highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics and other natural sciences....
    , astronomer, astrobiologist, broadcaster and author
  • Kirsten Sanford
    Kirsten Sanford

    ?Dr. Kirsten Sanford In late 2007 and early 2008 Sanford expanded her work into online video, starring in both On Networks successful series and Revision3's variety show PopSiren....
    , neurophysiologist and broadcaster
  • Simon Singh
    Simon Singh

    Simon Lehna Singh, Order of the British Empire is an Indian-British author of Punjabi people background, who has specialised in writing about maths and science topics in an accessible manner....
    , physicist, mathematician and author
  • Ian Stewart
    Ian Stewart (mathematician)

    Ian Nicholas Stewart Fellow of the Royal Society is a professor of mathematics at the University of Warwick, England, and a widely known popular-science and science-fiction writer....
    , mathematician and author
  • David Suzuki
    David Suzuki

    David Takayoshi Suzuki, Order of Canada, Order of British Columbia , is a Canada science Presenter and environmentalism activist. Since the mid-1970s, Suzuki has been known for his TV and radio series and books about nature and the environment....
    , broadcaster and environmental activist
  • Colin Tudge
    Colin Tudge

    Colin Tudge is a United Kingdom science writer and broadcaster. A biologist by training, he is the author of numerous works on food, agriculture, genetics, and species diversity....
    , biologist and author
  • Neil deGrasse Tyson
    Neil deGrasse Tyson

    Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist and, since 1996, the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History on Manhattan's Upper West Side....
    , astrophysicist and author
  • Kevin Warwick
    Kevin Warwick

    Kevin Warwick is a United Kingdom scientist and professor of cybernetics at the University of Reading, United Kingdom. He is probably best known for his studies on direct neural interface between computer systems and the human nervous system, although he has done much research in the field of robotics....
    , biomedical scientist, roboticist, and author
  • Robert Winston
    Robert Winston

    Robert Maurice Lipson Winston, Baron Winston Royal College of Physicians Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists is a United Kingdom medical doctor, scientist, Politics of the United Kingdom, and television presenter....
    , scientist and broadcaster
  • Lewis Wolpert
    Lewis Wolpert

    Lewis Wolpert Commander of the Order of the British Empire Fellow of the Royal Society Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature is a Developmental biology, author, and Presenter....
    , developmental biologist, author and broadcaster
  • Carl Zimmer
    Carl Zimmer

    Carl Zimmer is a popular science writer and blogger, especially regarding the study of evolution and parasites. He has written several books and contributes science essays to publications such as The New York Times and Discover ....
    , science writer and author of the science blog The Loom


Some sources of popular science

  • Ask A Biologist
    Ask A Biologist

    Ask A Biologist is a science outreach program originating from Arizona State University's School of Life Sciences....
     - audio podcast program and the
  • The Best American Science and Nature Writing
    The Best American Science and Nature Writing

    The Best American Science and Nature Writing is a yearly anthology of popular science magazine articles published in the United States. It was started in 2000 and is part of The Best American Series published by Houghton Mifflin....
     - Book series
  • The Best American Science Writing
    The Best American Science Writing

    The Best American Science Writing is a yearly anthology of popular science magazine articles published in the United States. It was started in 2000 and published by Harper Perennial....
     - Book series
  • BBC Focus
    BBC Focus

    BBC Focus is a United Kingdom monthly magazine about science and technology published in Bristol, UK by Bristol Magazines Ltd, a BBC Worldwide company....
     - Magazine
  • BBC Horizon - TV series
  • Cosmos Magazine
    Cosmos Magazine

    Cosmos Magazine is an Australian popular magazine that is published six times a year. It is subtitled "the science of everything" and is described as "a magazine of ideas, science, society and the future"....
     - Australian magazine
  • Diffusion Science Radio Show - Science radio program and podcast
  • Discover (magazine)
    Discover (magazine)

    Discover is a science magazine that publishes articles about science for a general audience. The monthly magazine was launched in October 1980 by Time ....
  • Discovery Channel
    Discovery Channel

    The Discovery Channel is an United States satellite and cable TV channel , founded by John Hendricks and distributed by Discovery Communications....
     - Cable/satellite television channel
  • - Michio Kaku radio program
  • Exploratorium
    Exploratorium

    The Exploratorium is a public science museum museum, located in the Marina District at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, California. It is one of San Francisco's most popular museums, drawing over 500,000 people each year....
     - Museum in San Francisco
  • Frontiers of Science
    Frontiers of Science

    Frontiers of Science was a popular illustrated comic strip created by Professor Stuart Butler of the School of Physics at the University of Sydney in collaboration with Robert Raymond, a documentary maker from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1962....
     - Comic strip
  • HowStuffWorks - Website
  • Medicine Magazine
    Medicine Magazine

    Medicine Magazine is a UK consumer magazine focused on health and medical issues. It has a more serious medical and scientific editorial than women's magazines....
     - Medical and health articles for a general audience
  • Mr Science Show
    Mr Science Show

    The Mr Science Show is a science radio show and podcast broadcast on China Radio International across Asia and across the world via podcast. Segments from this show can also be heard on the Diffusion Science Radio Show....
     - Radio show and podcast from China Radio International
    China Radio International

    China Radio International , the former Radio Beijing and originally Radio Peking, is one of the three state-owned national radio broadcasting radio network in the People's Republic of China ....
  • National Geographic Channel (UK)
    National Geographic Channel (UK)

    The National Geographic Channel is a television channel that features documentaries produced by the National Geographic Society. It features some programming similar to that on the Discovery Channel such as nature and science documentaries....
  • New Scientist
    New Scientist

    New Scientist is a liberal weekly international science magazine and website covering recent developments in science and technology for a general English language-speaking audience....
     - Magazine
  • Nova - Television show on PBS
  • Popular Science
    Popular science

    Popular science, sometimes called literature of science, is interpretation of science intended for a general audience. While science journalism focuses on recent scientific developments, popular science is broad-ranging, often written by scientists as well as journalists, and is presented in many formats, which can include books, televi...
     - Magazine
  • - Website
  • - Website on books and authors
  • Popular Science Historic Film Series
    Popular science

    Popular science, sometimes called literature of science, is interpretation of science intended for a general audience. While science journalism focuses on recent scientific developments, popular science is broad-ranging, often written by scientists as well as journalists, and is presented in many formats, which can include books, televi...
     - Film shorts
  • Quirks & Quarks - Canadian radio show and podcast on CBC
  • - Web comic
  • - Michio Kaku radio program
  • Science Friday - US radio show on NPR
  • Scientific American
    Scientific American

    Scientific American is a popular science science magazine, published since August 28, 1845, making it one of the oldest continuously published magazines in the United States....
     - Magazine
  • Science News
    Science News

    Science News is an American bi-weekly magazine devoted to short articles about new scientific and technical developments, typically gleaned from recent scientific and technical scientific journals....
     - Magazine
  • Seed (magazine)
    Seed (magazine)

    Seed is a science magazine published bimonthly by Seed Media Group and distributed internationally. Each issue looks at big ideas in science, important issues at the intersection of science and society, and the people driving global science culture....
     - Magazine
  • Smithsonian (magazine)
    Smithsonian (magazine)

    Smithsonian is a monthly magazine published by the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. The first issue was published in 1970. It is edited by Carey Winfrey....
     - Published by the Smithsonian Institution
    Smithsonian Institution

    The Smithsonian Institution is an educational and research institute and associated museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by funds from its Financial endowment, contributions, and profits from its shops and its magazine....
  • This Week in Science
    This Week in Science

    This Week in Science is a science radio talk show broadcasting from KDVS 90.3FM on the UC Davis campus. Each week, TWIS founder/host Kirsten Sanford and co-host Justin Jackson review current research in technology....
     - US radio show and podcast


See also

  • List of popular science books on evolution
    List of popular science books on evolution

    This is a list of popular science books concerning evolution, sorted by surname of the author. For books on creationism, see the list of books on non-evolutionary explanations for the diversity of life....
  • Science by press conference
    Science by press conference

    The term science by press conference is a phrase referring to scientists who put an unusual focus on publicizing results of research in the Mass media....
  • Science outreach
    Science outreach

    Science outreach, also called Education and Public Outreach or simply Public outreach, is an umbrella term for a variety of activities by research institutes, universities, but also institutions such as science museums, aimed at promoting Public awareness of science and making informal contributions to science education....
  • Kalinga Prize
    Kalinga Prize

    The Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science is an award given by UNESCO for exceptional skill in popularization of science. It was created in 1952, following a donation from Biju Patnaik, Founder President of the Kalinga Foundation Trust in India....