This is one of our biggest failures as a scientific community — we haven’t done a good job of actually communicating with people about what we do.

What Might Have Been Learnt From Discogs and IMDB

It’s vital to improve public trust in science and expertise. But science is increasingly complex, and getting harder to explain.

Do popular science articles make the public overconfident about their own expertise?

Despite frequent claims to the contrary, social media tools such as Twitter can be incredibly valuable for scholars.

Evading science communication simply because it is difficult, time-consuming or not important enough reflects more on how much scientists value their own work and its place in posterity.

Debates over climate change and genome editing present the need for researchers to venture beyond their comfort zones to engage with citizens — and they should receive credit for doing so.

Writers from the Guardian’s science blog network pick out the books from across the cultural spectrum that delighted them most this year

Fellow Congress members should rely on peer-reviewed science, not fake news.

Scientists should challenge online falsehoods and inaccuracies — and harness the collective power of the Internet to fight back, argues Phil Williamson.