Five top science book writers offer advice for budding authors in a series of interviews in Nature's Books & Arts section. Peter Atkins reveals the hard work behind a successful textbook; Carl Zimmer ...

First impressions are important. Scientists need to make their work stand out among a sea of others. However, many mistakenly believe that first impressions are formed based only on titles and ...

Introduction. The following article, which originally appeared in Writer's Digest (10:27-29, February 1930), surely qualifies as the first article ever published on how to write science fiction. To my ...

Scientific writing, like any technical field, has its own norms and regulations. There are different varieties of scientific writing, including medical, technical, and academic, and scientists have a ...