Science Diction is a bite-sized podcast about words—and the science stories behind them. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts, and sign up for our newsletter. Head on over to plainlanguage.gov, ...

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 ...

WSKG Public Media is closing the gap between science jargon and the general public by engaging the community through a monthly lecture series titled “Science Pub BING.” These events started in ...

THE word “meme” wasn’t created to describe things that spread all over the internet. Rather, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins coined the term when he was hunting for an idea-focused counterpart ...

Edgar Zodiag Friedenberg, 17, is the youngest person ever to appear on a convention program of the American Chemical Society. He is also the brashest. A precocious, articulate young man with an active ...