Turning kids away from science can only lead to disaster. When it comes to science communication, there's an oft-repeated sentiment that we are in a crisis mode. That science is under attack.

Social media can be tricky but is a "net" good for science communication as long as you ... It is not just for the kids. It is an important medium that policymakers, media and other scholars ...

to make science more interesting for the kids.” The real point of the Flame Challenge and the Center for Communicating Science, however, is to teach scientists to communicate their ideas clearly ...

That's the question put to scientists this year by the Flame Challenge, a contest first conceived by actor Alan Alda, famous for his roles on the TV shows M*A*S*H and "The West Wing." The directive?

She received a graduate certificate in science communication from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a bachelor of science in biomedical engineering from Brown University. She has ...

Researchers also examined demographic differences in media use and mother-child communication about media. Children of mothers with graduate degrees had less electronic media exposure than kids of ...

In mid-June, I traveled to the Microsoft NERD Center in Cambridge, MA to attend Communicating Science 2013: A Workshop for Graduate Students (lovingly abbreviated to ComSciCon). This conference ...

Communicating science to the public has taken on new urgency. Scientists and even science itself are now being thrust into a place of high visibility in the U.S. popular media and in the national ...

“Beth and I often publish in education and theater journals, Becca is our expert in evolutionary biology and has been teaching a class in science communication for the past 14 years, and Shawhin is an ...

A group of CU Boulder faculty believes so—and they recently won a five-year grant worth nearly $2 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to fund their endeavor. Their project will recruit ...

and which ones will actually help our kids develop their critical thinking so they can become better scientists? Shelsea Ochoa, an educator performer who designs and shares science communication ...