This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American It's time to step my game up. I mean that ...

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 ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American In my community of Madison, Wisc., where the ...

Kristel Tjandra is a chemist-turned-journalist based in the U.S. She graduated from the science communication master’s program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 2024, and writes broadly ...

OpenAI launches Prism, a new free writing workspace for scientists that brings drafting, collaboration, and research tools ...

This guide provides a brief introduction to writing in political science for prospective and current students. It includes: A statement about the fields of political science A statement of threshold ...

Many of us have already been trying ChatGPT. If you’ve checked science social media recently, it’s likely that you’ve already seen many of its writings. In common with many other researchers, I worry ...

“Your chance of becoming a professor is 0.45%.” That’s the type of statistic that stops even the most stats-inclined PhD in her tracks. For early-career researchers and doctoral graduates, the truth ...

The debut of artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT has set the world abuzz with its ability to churn out human-like text and conversations. Still, many telltale signs can help us distinguish AI ...

What qualifies an essay for each year’s “best of” list? What do last year’s stories tell us about our present and future? And what might we expect to see in next year’s roundup? The editors of this ...