Science Writing

The Autism Vaccine Controversy and the Need for Responsible Science Journalism

Seth Mnookin | Posted 03.05.2012

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Seth Mnookin

The seemingly never-ending contraction of the media industry has resulted in a shedding of specialists in every journalistic medium. That does not, however, mean that the public's hunger for information about science, medicine and technology is shrinking.

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Station Wagon to Space

David Freeman | Posted 03.05.2012

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David Freeman

Unless you've forsaken the modern world for a primitive dwelling deep in the woods, science is part of the molecular structure of life. HuffPost Science is here to put it under the microscope.

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James Lovelock's Revolutionary Book 'Gaia': Has It Stood The Test Of Time?

The Guardian | Tim Radford | Posted 05.25.2011

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To re-read the original text is to be reminded, in all sorts of unexpected ways, how far we have come. Its author has since morphed from J E, an "inde...

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China Mieville Dishes Opinions On Monsters And Being A Geek

Wired Magazine | Posted 05.25.2011

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In an interview with Wired senior editor Adam Rogers, Miéville gives insights on how readers should approach The City & The City, a noir detective st...

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11 Of The Craziest Things About The Universe: 'The Matchbox That Ate A Forty-Ton Truck' (PHOTOS)

Marcus Chown | Posted 05.25.2011

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Marcus Chown

I'm a science writer and, as a science writer, I am constantly amazed at how much stranger science is than science fiction.

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Ian McEwan: Why 'Solar' Was Rejected By The American Literary Establishment

Telegraph | Lorna Bradbury | Posted 05.25.2011

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"Americans don't like an unattractive character who is not redeemed at the centre of a novel," he says. "And maybe it's a matter of British humour too...

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Science Writing At Its Finest? Richard Dawkins's 'Oxford Book Of Modern Science Writing'

The New York Review of Books | Jeremy Bernstein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jeremy Bernstein The New York Review of Books A Bouquet of Science "The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing" edited by Richard Dawkins Oxford Univ...

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Al's Poem

William Petrocelli | Posted 05.25.2011

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William Petrocelli

Al Gore keeps reassuring nervous audiences that we have the tools to solve the crisis. Time is short, he says, but it hasn't run out yet. And with all that, he had time to write a poem - one that Yeats might have been proud of.

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Best Environmental Journalism of 2009

Scott Dodd | Posted 05.25.2011

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Scott Dodd

Major news organizations are cutting science reporters, stoking fears that important journalism on environmental issues is in danger of drying up.

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