Cheers 2023 with a roundup of the year’s best science and nature essays. Read this collection with us this December. The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023 brings together a range of topics ...

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, ...

Stereotypical academic writing is rigid, dry, and mechanical, delivering prose that evokes memories of high school and undergraduate laboratory reports. The hallmark of this stereotype is passive ...

This includes not writing in the first person and avoiding emotionally charged language. This contributes to your credibility as a writer. Room for improvement: “My patient is really sick and I feel ...

Writing in science -- Science writing as story telling -- Making a story sticky -- Story structure -- The opening -- The funnel : connecting O and C -- The challenge -- The action -- The resolution -- ...

This article discusses science writing as a possible “hobby” to keep one’s mind curious and active in retirement. The author, a retired regulatory professional, explains how he finds interesting ...

The stereotype goes that scientific information is technical, dry, and boring. After all, everyone has dragged themselves through a too-dense manuscript or fought sleep during a slow presentation at ...

I entered 2020 thinking of myself as a science writer. I ended the year less sure. While the first sparks of the COVID-19 pandemic ignited at the end of 2019, I was traipsing through a hillside in ...

What qualifies an essay for each year’s “best of” list? What do last year’s stories tell us about our present and future? And what might we expect to see in next year’s roundup? The editors of this ...