What's a good science story? A good science story is like any other good story: it has tension and movement; it has conflicts the reader can relate to; it's usually about someone who wants something ...

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 -- ...

Chemotherapy might be old news, but the right approaches could dramatically improve their clinical usefulness. Credit: National Cancer Institute (via Unsplash) Around the time the Human Genome Project ...

University of Sydney provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. The 15th edition of The Best Australian Science Writing, edited by Zoe Kean and Tegan Taylor, contains 39 essays and stories ...

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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good science background must be in want of a PhD. So it was that I found myself re-enacting a bad 80s sitcom in a ...

I vividly recall when an editor in chief invited me to publish in a well-known journal. Fresh from defending my dissertation, I still grappled with understanding how publishing worked in academia—like ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter More than any other book on the shortlist, this one's outstanding success has been driven by the celebrity status of the author ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Richard Feynman was arguably the greatest post-war American physicist. He worked on the Manhattan Project to build an atomic bomb and ...