“As scientists, we are trained to speak in jargon and not to think about our audience,” says Smith astronomy professor James Lowenthal. “Bottom line: we need to become better communicators.” During a ...

Double-masked jargon is so sneaky that I've only managed to uncover a few examples, says blogger Tania Lombrozo; it's real and, in some cases, it... One of the challenges that can arise in ...

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The United States may be mildly embarrassed about its difficulties with science and technology literacy, but it is still struggling with how to fix it. A perspective published in Science tackles one ...

I don’t know about you but I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve heard people in the startup world string meaningless words together. “Enable best-of-breed convergence,” and “synthesize ...

In this week's Science for All newsletter, Vasudevan Mukunth looks at a new development that reports moss spores survived on ...

One of the challenges that can arise in communicating science and other forms of scholarship to non-experts is the jargon involved. But the most dangerous kind of jargon isn't the kind we notice. It's ...

Making science education more appealing to students might require us to deal with the field's often bewildering use of language. Use more ink. Reading technical work is overly challenging when you don ...