“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life,” is an adage that Margaret Merritt quotes in her memoir of her years conducting research with the Alaska Department of Fish ...

Readers on TikTok and Instagram are making the aesthetics of reading more visible than ever with creative, and often intricate, annotations. Called marginalia, these markups can be elaborate, with ...

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 ...

The Shape of Wonder is an inspiring book that humanizes scientists. Understanding the motivation of scientists is part of a ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. You might know Chris Hadfield as the International Space Station commander who famously sang David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” ...

Deepak Chopra reshaped the global conversation around spirituality, urging readers to see science, emotion and faith as parts ...

During the nineteen-seventies and eighties, a researcher at the University of Washington started noticing something strange in the college’s experimental forest. For years, a blight of caterpillars ...

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 ...

In early 2021, I finally snagged my lifelong Holy Grail: a non-fiction book deal. I was a science reporter covering the COVID-19 pandemic, and I felt there was no more meaningful thing I could do than ...