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Alistair Hughes searches for the formula for good science communication for kids.
Ernest, Lord Rutherford is famously credited with proclaiming: ‘If you can’t explain your physics to a barmaid, it is probably not very good physics.’ These days hospitality workers probably have a perfectly robust grasp of science and many other topics besides, so perhaps a worthier challenge lies with children’s book authors in presenting science to young readers.
Children’s encyclopaedias were once a source of knowledge for growing minds, but in the age of electronic information titles like Look and Learn, Tell Me Why and Maurice Burton’s World of Nature seem to have long passed into obscurity. So how can we effectively share science with modern young readers?
A common mistake is to believe that the required simplification of information will mean that the task will also be simplified. In fact, distillation of knowledge is probably a better description. And as any scientist or whisky
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Science News for Students: Enjoy more than our new look
I took over Science News for Students almost nine years ago (initially as a part-time endeavor). From day one, I’ve strengthened the magazine, broadened its appeal and made it more useful. We now publish more stories each week. They are newsier — some appearing the same day that a research paper is published. We also cover a broader range of fields, and we probe them in greater depth. We don’t just describe new developments, we also report what’s known (or isn’t) about the mechanisms to explain them.
As a sister publication to Science News, now years strong, we are able to leverage much of its award-winning reporting to bring our readers some of the latest breaking news. But it’s in a form rewritten just for you.
Where else can you learn new details about quantum physics, cognitive science and gene editing, all written in a vocabulary tweens and teens can understand? We cover topical developments across the disciplines
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Who we are
Science News Explores is an award-winning publication dedicated to providing topical stories on current events in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) for children ages 9 and up, their parents and educators. Founded in as Science News for Kids, the digital magazine underwent a major redesign 10 years later, including a name change to Science News for Students. Known as Science News Explores since summer , the magazine’s website publishes daily news and features online — all free of cost. Since May , Science News Explores also offers a low-cost, subscription-based print magazine, published 10 times a year.
As our name implies, this is journalism that highlights the latest, most important and most intriguing findings emerging across the research spectrum, from astronomy to zoology. Stories are reported by experienced science journalists, many with PhDs in the fields on which they write. And that reporting has been winning accolades regularly.
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