Popular Science
Lay science periodical
Popular Science is a genre of writing that presents scientific concepts and discoveries in accessible language for general readers rather than specialists.
The term also names a long-running American magazine founded in 1872.
Popular science bridges the gap between technical research and public understanding: Stephen Hawking's books are popular science at its best.
- magazineBound periodical with articles
- engineeringDesigning functional systems scientifically
- climate changePlanetary atmospheric transformation
- articleWritten piece or grammatical word
- inventionNew device or method
informative · fun facts · discovery · physics · big bang · black holes · creativity · astronomy · analogies · skepticism · Smithsonian · outreach programs · mathematics · space exploration · technology · inspiration · innovation · podcast
Popular Sciencepeer-reviewed journals
Publications vetted by field experts
scientific literature · Nature · Science · primary research · academic papers
Popular Scienceoriginal research
Newly conducted investigation
scholarly journals · empirical study · scientific paper · academic publications · meta-analysis
Popular Sciencepseudoscience
Bogus methodology posing as factual
junk science · misinformation · quackery · anti-science · conspiracy theories
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