On a gray Montana morning, I sat with the science writer David Quammen in the office of his Bozeman home, each of us in opposite corners and wearing masks. Quammen’s rescue python, Boots, who was ...

In her award-winning essay, young British science writer Hasset Kifle from Stoke on Trent used her personal experience as a ...

Science writers describe discoveries and commercial developments in all branches of science, engineering, medicine, and environmental science. They explain the impact these discoveries have on the ...

The award-winning Wolchover was a staff writer for Space.com's sister publication Live Science from 2010 to 2012. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here ...

When a science writer visits a brewery, they ask a lot of astute chemistry questions. When a science writer meets an astronaut, they ask a propulsion question (and yes, get a selfie). When they hike ...

Writer Ursula K. Le Guin, whose work spanned multiple genres and categories including science fiction, fantasy, poetry and essays, died on Monday (Jan. 22) at the age of 88, the New York Times reports ...

Butler's 1979 book, Kindred, is now a series for FX on Hulu. In 1993, the pioneering author, who died in 2006, told Fresh Air she made up her own stories so that she could see herself in them. This is ...

I make no secret of the fact that I am President of the Carl Zimmer fan club. Carl’s writing was a big influence for me well before we became colleagues at Discover. So when Alok Jha at the Guardian ...

The first science fiction novel I ever read, pressed into my teenage hands by my father, was The Left Hand of Darkness. The novel featured the staples of science fiction—spaceships, aliens, imaginary ...

India's moon rover has completed its walk on the lunar surface and been put into sleep mode less than two weeks after its historic landing near the lunar south pole, India's space mission said. India ...