Popular science

Popular science (also called pop-science or popsci) is an interpretation of science intended for a general audience. ^[1]

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A Beautiful Planet

A Beautiful Planet is a 2016 American documentary film that explores Earth by showing IMAX footage that was recorded over the course of fifteen months by astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

A Brief History of Time

A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes is a popular-science book on cosmology (the study of the universe) by British physicist Stephen Hawking.

A Briefer History of Time (Hawking and Mlodinow book)

A Briefer History of Time is a 2005 popular-science book by the English physicist Stephen Hawking and the American physicist Leonard Mlodinow.

A Briefer History of Time (Schulman book)

A Briefer History of Time is a science humor book by the American astronomer Eric Schulman.

A Scientist at the Seashore

A Scientist at the Seashore is a 1984 book written by American physicist James Trefil.

A Short History of Nearly Everything

A Short History of Nearly Everything by American author Bill Bryson is a popular science book that explains some areas of science, using easily accessible language that appeals more so to the general public than many other books dedicated to the subject.

Academic freedom

Academic freedom is the conviction that the freedom of inquiry by faculty members is essential to the mission of the academy as well as the principles of academia, and that scholars should have freedom to teach or communicate ideas or facts (including those that are inconvenient to external political groups or to authorities) without being targeted for repression, job loss, or imprisonment.

Adaptation and Natural Selection

Adaptation and Natural Selection: A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought is a 1966 book by the American evolutionary biologist George C. Williams.

Akira Fujii

is a noted Japanese astrophotographer and astronomer.

Aktuel Naturvidenskab

Aktuel Naturvidenskab (lit.: Current Science) is a Danish language popular science magazine published in Aarhus, Denmark.

Alain Haché

Alain Haché (born 14 December 1970, in Tracadie, New Brunswick) is an experimental physicist, a professor at the University of Moncton, Canada.

Albert Jacquard

Albert Jacquard (23 December 1925 – 11 September 2013) was a French geneticist, popularizer of science, essayist and humanist.

Albert Tissandier

Albert Tissandier (1839 – 5 September 1906) was a French architect, aviator, illustrator, editor and archaeologist.

Aldous Huxley

Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer, novelist, philosopher, and prominent member of the Huxley family.

Alejandro Agostinelli

Alejandro César Agostinelli (born April 29, 1963) is an Argentine writer, journalist, screenwriter and TV producer.

Aleksander Konjajev

Aleksander Konjajev (born 3 June 1909) was a Russian born Slovene agronomist and dean of the Biotechnology Faculty at the University of Ljubljana.

Alexander Kazantsev

Alexander Petrovitch Kazantsev (Алекса́ндр Петро́вич Каза́нцев; 2 September 1906 – 13 September 2002) was a popular Soviet science fiction writer, ufologist and chess composer.

Alf Brodal

Alf Brodal (25 January 1910 – 29 February 1988) was a Norwegian professor of anatomy.

Alfred Marshall Bailey

Alfred Marshall Bailey (February 18, 1894 – February 25, 1978) was an American ornithologist who was associated with the Denver Museum of Natural History (now the Denver Museum of Nature and Science) in Colorado for most of his working life.

America: The Story of Us

America: The Story of Us (also internationally known as America: The Story of the U.S.) is a 12-part, 9-hours documentary-drama television miniseries that premiered on April 25, 2010, on History channel.

Amy Shira Teitel

Amy Shira Teitel (born March 7, 1986) is a Canadian-American author, popular science writer, spaceflight historian, YouTuber, and podcaster, best known for writing Breaking the Chains of Gravity (Bloomsbury 2015) and her YouTube channel, Vintage Space.

Anatol Heintz

Anatol Heintz (9 February 1898 – 23 February 1975) was a Norwegian palaeontologist.

Angela Duckworth

Angela Lee Duckworth (born 1970) is an American academic, psychologist and popular science author.

Antanas Būdvytis

Antanas Būdvytis (16 August 1928 - 13 January 1998) was a Lithuanian agronomist, politician and member of the Seimas.

Ante Radonić

Ante Radonić (born 1951) is an astronomer from Croatia.

Anton Polenec

Anton Polenec (7 October 1910 – 30 October 2000) was a Slovene zoologist and specialist arachnologist.

Aric Sigman

Aric Sigman is a British musician and psychologist.

Armchair Science

Armchair Science was a British monthly journal of topical and popular science articles published from 1929 to 1940; it ceased publication because of wartime paper shortages.

Arno Karlen

Arno Chanoch Karlen (May 7, 1937 – May 13, 2010) was an American poet, psychoanalyst, and in particular, popular science writer.

Arthur C. Clarke

Sir Arthur Charles Clarke (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008) was a British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host.

Ask a Biologist

Ask A Biologist is a science outreach program originating from Arizona State University's School of Life Sciences.

Astrid Cleve

Astrid M. Cleve von Euler (22 January 1875 – 8 April 1968) was a Swedish botanist, geologist, chemist and researcher at Uppsala University.

Astrobiology Magazine

Astrobiology Magazine (exploring the solar system and beyond), or Astrobiology Mag, is an American NASA-sponsored international online popular science magazine containing popular science content, which refers to articles for the general reader on science and technology subjects.

Astronarium

Astronarium is a Polish documentary and popular science television series about astronomy and space research.

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry is a 2017 popular science book by Neil deGrasse Tyson, centering around a number of basic questions about the universe.

Avrohom Katz

Avrohom Katz is an Orthodox rabbi, scientist, writer, lecturer, author and educator.

Øyvind Grøn

Øyvind Grøn (born 11 March 1944) is a Norwegian physicist.

Življenje in tehnika

Življenje in tehnika (Life & Technology) is a Slovene-language monthly magazine about popular science.

B. K. Tikader

Benoy Krishna Tikader was an Indian arachnologist and zoologist and a leading expert on Indian spiders in his time.

Baltic Tribes (film)

Baltic Tribes (Baltu ciltis) is a 2018 Latvian popular science documentary film on the 13th century Baltic people co-directed by Lauris Ābele and Raitis Ābele and written by Toms Ķencis.

Banquets of the Black Widowers

Banquets of the Black Widowers is a collection of mystery short stories by science fiction author Isaac Asimov featuring his fictional club of mystery solvers, the Black Widowers.

Barsoom

Barsoom is a fictional representation of the planet Mars created by American pulp fiction author Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Bas Haring

Sebastiaan (Bas) Haring / Prof.dr.

Bavarian TV Awards

Bayerischer Fernsehpreis (the Bavarian TV award) is an award presented by the government of Bavaria, Germany since 1989.

Beagle: In Darwin's wake

Beagle: In het kielzog van Darwin (English: Beagle: In Darwin's wake) was a Dutch-Flemish television series from 2009 and 2010 initiated by the VPRO in collaboration with Teleac (Dutch educational broadcaster) and Canvas to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species.

Bengt Feldreich

Bengt Walter Feldreich (born 12 September 1925 in Stockholm) is a Swedish journalist and television host.

Bengt Lidforss

Bengt Lidforss (15 September 186823 September 1913) was a prominent Swedish socialist, and an accomplished natural scientist and writer.

Bernard Stonehouse

Dr Bernard Stonehouse (1 May 1926 – 12 November 2014) was a British scientist who specialised in polar research and popular science.

Beverly Halstead

Lambert Beverly Halstead (13 June 1933 – 30 April 1991), who also went by Lambert Beverly Halstead Tarlo, was a British paleontologist & professor of Geology & Zoology and popularizer of science.

Beyond (book)

Beyond: Our Future in Space is a non-fiction book by astronomer and professor Chris Impey that discusses the history of space travel and the future trajectory of human exploration of space.

Beyond Einstein (book)

Beyond Einstein: The Cosmic Quest for the Theory of the Universe is a book by Michio Kaku, a theoretical physicist from the City College of New York, and Jennifer Trainer Thompson.

Big Trak

BIG TRAK / bigtrak is a programmable electric vehicle created by Milton Bradley in 1979, resembling a futuristic Sci-Fi tank / utility vehicle, possibly for use on the Moon or a Planetoid style environment.

Bill Bryson

William McGuire Bryson (born 8 December 1951) is an Anglo-American author of books on travel, the English language, science, and other non-fiction topics.

Bionyt

BioNyt Videnskabens Verden (BioNews Science World) is a Danish language popular science magazine published by Foreningen af Yngre Biologer - Biologisk Forum.

Bjørn Føyn

Bjørn Føyn (21 September 1898 – 8 January 1985) was a Norwegian zoologist, especially known for researching the genetics of algae.

Bjørn Vassnes

Bjørn Roar Vassnes (born 16 November 1951) is a Norwegian musician and writer.

Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays

Black Holes and Baby Universes and other Essays is a 1993 popular science book by English astrophysicist Stephen Hawking.

Black Holes and Time Warps

Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy is a 1994 popular science book by physicist Kip Thorne.

Black Holes, Wormholes and Time Machines

Black Holes, Wormholes and Time Machines is a book by physicist Jim Al-Khalili, published in 1999.

Black moon

The term black moon refers to an additional new moon that appears in a month or in a season.

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (2005) is Malcolm Gladwell's second book.

Bob Berman

Robert Berman, known as Bob Berman, is an American astronomer, author, and science popularizer.

Bones of the Buddha

Bones of the Buddha is a 2013 television documentary produced by Icon Films and commissioned by WNET/THIRTEEN and ARTE France for the National Geographic Channels.

Boris Kordemsky

Boris A. Kordemsky (Борис Анастасьевич Кордемский; 23 May 1907 – 1999) was a Russian mathematician and educator.

Boris Pahor

Boris Pahor (born 26 August 1913) is a Slovenian novelist best known for his heartfelt descriptions of life as a member of the Slovenian minority in the pre-Second World War increasingly fascist Italy, as well as a Nazi concentration camp survivor.

Boyan Petkanchin

Boyan Petkanchin (Боян Петканчин) (April 8, 1907 – March 3, 1987) was a prominent Bulgarian mathematician, working in geometry and foundation of mathematics.

Brady Haran

Brady John Haran (born 18 June 1976) is an Australian-born British independent filmmaker and video journalist who is known for his educational videos and documentary films produced for BBC News and his YouTube channels, the most notable being Periodic Videos and Numberphile.

Brain Games (National Geographic)

Brain Games is a popular science television series that explores cognitive science by focusing on illusions, psychological experiments, and counterintuitive thinking.

Brainwashing

Brainwashing (also known as mind control, menticide, coercive persuasion, thought control, thought reform, and re-education) is the concept that the human mind can be altered or controlled by certain psychological techniques.

Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control

Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control is a 2004 popular science book explaining mind control, which is also known as brainwashing, thought reform and coercive persuasion, by neuroscientist and physiologist Kathleen Taylor.

Brian Cox (physicist)

Brian Edward Cox (born 3 March 1968) is an English physicist who serves as professor of particle physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester.

Brian Wansink

Brian Wansink is an American professor in the fields of consumer behavior and marketing research.

Bruce Benamran

Bruce Benamran (born in Strasbourg) is a French YouTube personality mostly known for his French speaking popular science YouTube channel e-penser.

Bruno Maddox

Bruno P. Maddox (born 1969) is a British literary novelist and journalist who is best known for his novel My Little Blue Dress (2001) and for his satirical magazine essays.

Butters' Bottom Bitch

"Butters' Bottom Bitch" is the ninth episode of the thirteenth season of the American animated television series South Park.

C. Radhakrishnan

Camille Flammarion

Nicolas Camille Flammarion FRAS (26 February 1842 – 3 June 1925) was a French astronomer and author.

Carl Sagan

Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences.

Carl Zimmer

Carl Zimmer (born 1966) is a popular science writer and blogger who has specialized in the topics of evolution and parasites.

Carsten Peter Thiede

Carsten Peter Thiede OCF KStJ (8 August 1952 – 14 December 2004) was a German archaeologist and New Testament scholar.

Catherine Cooper Hopley

Catherine Cooper Hopley (October 5, 1817 – 1911), also known by the pen-name Sarah L. Jones, was a British author, governess, artist, and naturalist known for her books on the American Civil War and her nature books for general audiences, including the first popular book on snakes in the English language.

Cephalopod size

Cephalopods vary enormously in size.

Ceram Prize

The Ceram Prize (Ceram-Preis) is a prize for non-fiction books in archaeology issued by Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn.

Chad Orzel

Chad Orzel is a popular science author, noted for his books How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog (also called How to Teach Physics to Your Dog) which has been translated into 9 languages, and How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog.

Chaos: Making a New Science

Chaos: Making a New Science is a debut non-fiction book by James Gleick that initially introduced the principles and early development of the chaos theory to the public.

Charles and Ray Eames

Charles Ormond Eames, Jr. (1907–1978) and Bernice Alexandra "Ray" Kaiser Eames (1912–1988) were an American design married couple who made significant historical contributions to the development of modern architecture and furniture.

Charles Edward Hubbard

Charles Edward Hubbard CBE (23 May 1900 – 8 May 1980) was a British botanist, specialising in agrostology – the study of grasses.

Chriet Titulaer

Chriet Titulaer (May 9, 1943 – April 23, 2017), born in Hout-Blerick, Venlo, Limburg province, was a Dutch astronomer, television presenter and popular science and technology writer.

Chris Lintott

Christopher John Lintott (born 26 November 1980) is a Professor of Astrophysics in the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford.

Citizen science

Citizen science (CS; also known as community science, crowd science, crowd-sourced science, civic science, volunteer monitoring, or networked science) is scientific research conducted, in whole or in part, by amateur (or nonprofessional) scientists.

Clifford D. Simak

Clifford Donald Simak (August 3, 1904 – April 25, 1988) was an American science fiction writer.

Clifford D. Simak bibliography

The American science fiction writer Clifford Donald Simak (August 3, 1904 – April 25, 1988) was honored by fans with three Hugo Awards and by colleagues with one Nebula Award.

Climbing Mount Improbable

Climbing Mount Improbable is a 1996 popular science book by Richard Dawkins.

Clonaid

Clonaid is an American-based human cloning organization, registered as a company in the Bahamas.

Colecția de Povestiri Științifico-Fantastice

Colecția de Povestiri Ştiinţifico-Fantastice ("The Science Fiction Stories Collection", commonly CPSF) is a Romanian science fiction supplement, founded by writer Adrian Rogoz and published by the popular science weekly Ştiinţă şi Tehnică.

Colin Blakemore

Sir Colin Brian Blakemore, (born 1 June 1944), is a British neurobiologist, specialising in vision and the development of the brain, who is Professor of Neuroscience and Philosophy in the School of Advanced Study, University of London and Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Oxford. He was formerly Chief Executive of the British Medical Research Council (MRC). He is best known to the public as a communicator of science but also as the target of a long-running animal rights campaign. According to The Observer, he has been both "one of the most powerful scientists in the UK" and "a hate figure for the animal rights movement".McKie, Robin.. The Observer, 14 September 2003.

Colin Bruce

Colin Bruce is a British author and physicist.

Computational neuroscience

Computational neuroscience (also known as theoretical neuroscience or mathematical neuroscience) is a branch of neuroscience which employs mathematical models, theoretical analysis and abstractions of the brain to understand the principles that govern the development, structure, physiology and cognitive abilities of the nervous system.

Constantin Rădulescu-Motru

Constantin Rădulescu-Motru (born Constantin Rădulescu, he added the surname Motru in 1892; February 15, 1868 – March 6, 1957) was a Romanian philosopher, psychologist, sociologist, logician, academic, dramatist, as well as centre-left nationalist politician with a noted anti-fascist discourse.

Contemporary philosophy

Contemporary philosophy is the present period in the history of Western philosophy beginning at the end of the 19th century with the professionalization of the discipline and the rise of analytic and continental philosophy.

Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds

Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds (Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes) is a popular science book by French author Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, published in 1686.

Conversion table for Y chromosome haplogroups

In human population genetics, Y-Chromosome haplogroups define the major lineages of direct paternal (male) lines back to a shared common ancestor in Africa.

Cordelia Fine

Cordelia Fine is a Canadian-born British philosopher, psychologist and writer.

Cortical column

A cortical column, also called hypercolumn, macrocolumn, functional column or sometimes cortical module, is a group of neurons in the cortex of the brain that can be successively penetrated by a probe inserted perpendicularly to the cortical surface, and which have nearly identical receptive fields.

Cosmic Calendar

The Cosmic Calendar is a method to visualize the chronology of the universe, scaling its current age of 13.8 billion years to a single year in order to help intuit it for pedagogical purposes in science education or popular science.

Cosmos (Australian magazine)

Cosmos (styled COSMOS) is a science magazine produced in Australia with a global outlook and literary ambitions.

Cosmos (Carl Sagan book)

Cosmos is a 1980 popular science book by astronomer and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carl Sagan.

Craig Bohren

Craig F. Bohren (born 1940) - American atmospheric scientist and physicist.

Croatian Interdisciplinary Society

Croatian Interdisciplinary Society (Hrvatsko interdisciplinarno društvo, abbrev. HID) is a non-governmental organization operating in Croatia.

Cunt: A Declaration of Independence

Cunt: A Declaration of Independence is a 1998 feminist book by Inga Muscio that called for a breakdown in the boundaries between women and sexuality.

Da znaem poveche

“Да Знаeм Повече” (“To Know More”) was a Bulgarian popular-science and leisure, bi-monthly magazine, accessible on-line and through e-readers, tablet devices, and mobile phones in a DRM-free PDF format.

Damals

Damals is a German monthly popular scientific history magazine.

Damien Broderick

Damien Francis Broderick (born 22 April 1944) is an Australian science fiction and popular science writer and editor of some 70 books.

Daniel Isaachsen (physicist)

Daniel Isaachsen (23 June 1859 – 29 March 1940) was a Norwegian physicist.

Danny Hillis

William Daniel "Danny" Hillis (born September 25, 1956) is an American inventor, entrepreneur, scientist, and writer who is particularly known for his work in computer science.

Darwin's Dangerous Idea

Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life is a 1995 book by Daniel Dennett, in which the author looks at some of the repercussions of Darwinian theory.

David Bergamini

David Howland Bergamini (11 October 1928 – 3 September 1983, in Tokyo) was an American author who wrote books on 20th-century history and popular science, notably mathematics.

David Brewster

Sir David Brewster KH PRSE FRS FSA(Scot) FSSA MICE (11 December 178110 February 1868) was a British scientist, inventor, author, and academic administrator.

David J. Darling

David Darling (born 29 July 1953 in Glossop, Derbyshire) is an English astronomer, freelance science writer, and musician.

Death by Black Hole

Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries is a 2007 popular science book written by Neil deGrasse Tyson.

Delvalle Lowry

Delvalle Lowry (22 September 1800 – 23 December 1859) was a British geologist and mineralogist and author.

Department of Mathematical Logic (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)

The Department of Mathematical Logic at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences was created by the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics in implementation of Government Decree N0.

Diego Golombek

Diego Golombek (born 22 November 1964) is an Argentine biologist, communicator and popularizer of science.

Dionysis Simopoulos

Dionysis Simopoulos (Greek: Διονύσης Σιμόπουλος, born 8 March 1943) is a contemporary Greek physicist and astronomer, and the Eugenides Planetarium's director emeritus who excelled as an astronomy educator and science populariser in the print and electronic media of Greece.

Discover (magazine)

Discover is an American general audience science magazine launched in October 1980 by Time Inc.

Discovery Channel

Discovery Channel (known as The Discovery Channel from 1985 to 1995, and often referred to as simply Discovery) is an American pay television channel that is the flagship television property of Discovery Inc., a publicly traded company run by CEO David Zaslav.

Discovery Family

Discovery Family is an American digital cable and satellite television channel owned by Discovery Inc., with a minority ownership held by Hasbro.

Discworld

Discworld is a comic fantasy book series written by the English author Terry Pratchett (1948–2015), set on the fictional Discworld, a flat disc balanced on the backs of four elephants which in turn stand on the back of a giant turtle, Great A'Tuin.

Doing DaVinci

Doing DaVinci was a popular science television program originally aired on the Discovery Channel in which the hosts attempted to create many of Leonardo da Vinci's inventions.

Dominic Wood

Dominic Simon Wood (born 3 January 1978 in Exeter, Devon) is an English entertainer, magician and presenter of radio and television, best known as one half of the double act Dick and Dom, with the other being Richard McCourt.

Don Lessem

"Dino" Don Lessem (born 1951) is a writer of more than 50 popular science books, specializing in dinosaurs.

Donald Broom

Donald Maurice Broom (born 14 July 1942) is an English biologist and emeritus professor of animal welfare at Cambridge University.

Douglas J. Futuyma

Douglas Joel Futuyma (born 24 April 1942) is an American evolutionary biologist.

Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation

Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation: The Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex is a 2002 popular science book by the British evolutionary biologist Olivia Judson written in the role of her alter ego, agony aunt Dr Tatiana.

Drauzio Varella

Drauzio Varella, (General Brazilian:; born May 3, 1943 in São Paulo, Brazil) is a Brazilian doctor, educator, scientist and medical science popularizer in the press and TV, as well as best-selling author.

Dream 2047

Dream 2047 is monthly popular science magazine published by Vigyan Prasar, an autonomous institution under Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.

Drexler–Smalley debate on molecular nanotechnology

The Drexler–Smalley debate on molecular nanotechnology was a public dispute between K. Eric Drexler, the originator of the conceptual basis of molecular nanotechnology, and Richard Smalley, a recipient of the 1996 Nobel prize in Chemistry for the discovery of the nanomaterial buckminsterfullerene.

Duralumin

Duralumin (also called duraluminum, duraluminium, duralum, dural(l)ium, or dural) is a trade name for one of the earliest types of age-hardenable aluminium alloys.

Dyson Carter

Herbert Dyson Carter known as Dyson Carter (February 2, 1910 – 1996) was a Canadian scientist, lecturer, writer, and Communist propagandist and organiser who served as president of the Canadian-Soviet Friendship Society from 1949 to 1960.

E. Brian Davies

Edward Brian Davies FRS (born 13 June 1944) was Professor of Mathematics, King's College London (1981–2010), and is the author of the popular science book Science in the Looking Glass: What do Scientists Really Know.

Earl Stannard Herald

Earl Stannard Herald (born Phoenix, Arizona, 10 April 1914, died Cabo San Lucas, Baja California, 16 January 1973) was an American zoologist, Ichthyologist and television presenter, who was director of the Steinhart Aquarium in San Francisco, California, and who presented the popular science television programme Science in Action from 1952 to 1966.

Easiness effect

The easiness effect of science popularization is the claim that as a result of science popularisation, laypeople become overconfident in their scientific understanding, with the result that science-related decision-making reflects misunderstanding of popularised science rather than professional scientists' scientific judgment.

Ed Yong

Edmund Soon-Weng Yong (born 1981), commonly known as Ed Yong, is a British science journalist.

Edward M. Lerner

Edward M. Lerner (born 1949) is an American author of science fiction, techno-thrillers, and popular science.

Edwin Emery Slosson

Edwin Emery Slosson (7 June 1865 – 15 October 1929) was an American magazine editor, author, journalist and chemist.

Einar Johannessen

Einar Johan Johannessen (9 April 1926 – 13 January 2016) was a Norwegian radio and television personality.

Einstein's Cosmos

Einstein's Cosmos: How Albert Einstein's Vision Transformed Our Understanding of Space and Time is a popular science book by Michio Kaku first published in 2004.

Eirik Newth

Eirik Newth (born 17 August 1964) is a Norwegian astrophysicist, writer of popular science for children, and media personality.

Electric current

An electric current is a flow of electric charge.

Elise Andrew

Elise Andrew (born 1989) is a British blogger and science communicator.

Emecé Editores

Emecé Editores is an Argentine publishing house, a subsidiary of Grupo Planeta.

Emily Grossman

Emily Grossman is a science communicator and populariser, as of 2015 is a resident expert on The Alan Titchmarsh Show, and has been a panelist on the Sky1 television show Duck Quacks Don't Echo.

Eric Lerner

Eric J. Lerner (born May 31, 1947) is an American popular science writer, and independent plasma researcher.

Erica Klarreich

Erica Gail Klarreich is an American mathematician, journalist and science popularizer.

Ernst W. Hamburger

Ernst Wolfgang Hamburger is a German-born Brazilian physicist and popularizer of science.

Ethan Siegel

Ethan R. Siegel (August 3, 1978, Bronx) is an American theoretical astrophysicist and science writer, who studies Big Bang theory.

Evolution: The Modern Synthesis

Evolution: The Modern Synthesis, a popularising 1942 book by Julian Huxley (grandson of T.H. Huxley), set out his vision of the modern synthesis of evolutionary biology of the early 20th century.

Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed is a 2008 American film directed by Nathan Frankowski and starring Ben Stein.

Fang Zhouzi

Fang Shimin, better known by his pen name Fang Zhouzi, is a Chinese popular scientific writer who is primarily known for his campaign against pseudoscience and fraud in China.

Far future in science fiction and popular culture

The far future, here defined as the time beyond the 10th millennium, has been used as a setting in many works of fiction or popular scientific speculation.

Fear of Physics

Fear of Physics: A Guide for the Perplexed is the second non-fiction book by the American physicist Lawrence M. Krauss.

Fermat's Last Theorem (book)

Fermat's Last Theorem is a popular science book (1997) by Simon Singh.

Fisher's principle

Fisher's principle is an evolutionary model that explains why the sex ratio of most species that produce offspring through sexual reproduction is approximately 1:1 between males and females.

Five Equations That Changed the World

Five Equations That Changed the World: The Power and Poetry of Mathematics is a book by Michael Guillen, published in 1995.

Flatterland

Flatterland is a 2001 book written by mathematician and science popularizer Ian Stewart about non-Euclidean geometry.

Frances Ashcroft

Dame Frances Mary Ashcroft, (born 1952) is a British ion channel physiologist.

Fred Pearce

Fred Pearce (born 30 December 1951) is an English author and journalist based in London.

Fred Watson

Frederick Garnett "Fred" Watson AM (born 14 December 1944) is an English-born astronomer and popular scientist in Australia.

Frederik Schübeler

Frederik Christian "Fritz" Schübeler (25 September 1815 – 20 June 1892) was a Norwegian botanist.

Fredrik Georg Gade

Fredrik Georg Gade (21 March 1855 – 1 March 1933) was a Norwegian physician.

From Here to Infinity (book)

From Here to Infinity: A Guide to Today's Mathematics, a 1996 book by mathematician and science popularizer Ian Stewart, is a guide to modern mathematics for the general reader.

Gavin de Beer

Sir Gavin Rylands de Beer (1 November 1899 – 21 June 1972) was a British evolutionary embryologist, known for his work on heterochrony as recorded in his 1930 book Embryos and Ancestors.

Gérard Feldzer

Gérard Paul Alain Feldzer (born 10 February 1944) is a consultant and aeronautical popularizer.

Gösta Gahm

Gösta Fredrik Gahm (born 7 July 1942) is a Swedish astronomer.

Genome (book)

Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters is a 1999 popular science book by the science writer Matt Ridley, published by Fourth Estate.

George and the Big Bang

George and the Big Bang is a 2011 children's book written by Stephen and Lucy Hawking.

George and the Blue Moon

George and the Blue Moon is a 2016 children's book written by Lucy and Stephen Hawking with Christophe Galfard.

George and the Unbreakable Code

George and the Unbreakable Code is a 2014 children's book written by Stephen and Lucy Hawking.

George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt

George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt is a 2009 children's book written by Stephen and Lucy Hawking.

George's Secret Key to the Universe

George's Secret Key to the Universe is a 2007 children's book written by Lucy and Stephen Hawking with Christophe Galfard.

Giorgos Grammatikakis

Giorgos Grammatikakis (born 21 May 1939, in Heraklion) is a Greek physicist, writer, and the dean emeritus of the University of Crete.

Glokaya kuzdra

Glokaya kuzdra (Глокая куздра) is a reference to a Russian language phrase constructed from non-existent words in a grammatically proper way, similar to the English language phrases using the pseudoword "gostak".

Grace Prestwich

Grace Prestwich, née Milne (19 December 1832 – 31 August 1899), was a Scottish author and illustrator.

Graham's number

Graham's number is an enormous number that arises as an upper bound on the answer of a problem in the mathematical field of Ramsey theory.

Gro Gulden

Gro Sissel Gulden (born 30 October 1939) is a Norwegian mycologist.

Guitar Zero

Guitar Zero: The New Musician and the Science of Learning is a 2012 popular science book by research psychologist Gary Marcus.

Guru Magazine

Guru Magazine is an online crowd-sourced magazine supported by the Wellcome Trust.

Gustav Elfving

Erik Gustav Elfving (June 25, 1908 – March 25, 1984) was a Finnish mathematician and statistician.

Haplogroup J (mtDNA)

Haplogroup J is a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup.

Hard sign

The letter Ъ (italics Ъ, ъ) of the Cyrillic script, also spelled jer or er, is known as the hard sign (твёрдый знак tvjórdyj znak) in the modern Russian and Rusyn alphabets, as er golyam (ер голям, "big er") in the Bulgarian alphabet, and as debelo jer (дебело їер, "fat yer") in pre-reform Serbian orthography.

Harold L. Goodwin

Harold Leland Goodwin (November 20, 1914 – February 18, 1990) was an American writer.

Harold Oldroyd

Harold Oldroyd was a British entomologist, born in 1914.

Hasan Tahsini

Hasan Tahsini (7 April 1811 – 3 July 1881) also known as Hoxha Tahsin was an Albanian astronomer, mathematician and philosopher.

Heaven and Earth (book)

Heaven and Earth: Global Warming – The Missing Science is a popular science book published in 2009 and written by Australian geologist, professor of mining geology at Adelaide University, and mining company director Ian Plimer.

Heinz Haber

Heinz Haber (May 15, 1913 – February 13, 1990) was a German physicist and science writer who primarily became famous for his TV programs and books about physics and environmental subjects.

Het Denkgelag

Het Denkgelag is a Belgian association without lucrative purpose that organises skeptical conferences in Flanders.

History of Russian animation

The history of Russian animation is the film art produced by Russian animation makers.

History of science and technology in the People's Republic of China

For more than a century China's leaders have called for rapid development of science and technology, and science policy has played a greater role in national politics in China than in many other countries.

Home Review

The Home Review (Tidskrift för hemmet) was a Swedish women's magazine, published from 1859 to 1885.

Hubert Reeves

Hubert Reeves (born July 13, 1932), is a French Canadian astrophysicist and popularizer of science.

Hugh Pennington

Thomas Hugh Pennington, CBE, FRCPath, FRCP (Edin), FMedSci, FRSE (born 19 April 1938 in Edgware, Middlesex) is emeritus professor of bacteriology at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland.

Human Genetic Diversity: Lewontin's Fallacy

"Human Genetic Diversity: Lewontin's Fallacy" is a 2003 paper by A. W. F. Edwards.

Human Universe (book)

Human Universe is a 2014 book by the theoretical physicists Brian Cox and Andrew Cohen.

Humanitas (publishing house)

Humanitas (Editura Humanitas) is an independent Romanian publishing house, founded on February 1, 1990 (after the Romanian Revolution) in Bucharest by the philosopher Gabriel Liiceanu, based on a state-owned publishing house, Editura Politică.

Hyperspace (book)

Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimension (1994) is a book by Michio Kaku, a theoretical physicist from the City College of New York.

Ian Stewart (mathematician)

Ian Nicholas Stewart (born 24 September 1945) is a British mathematician and a popular-science and science-fiction writer.

Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff

Igor Yourievitch Osten-Sacken-Bogdanoff and Grichka Yourievitch Osten-Sacken-Bogdanoff (or Bogdanov; born 29 August 1949) are French twin brothers who are television presenters, producers and scientific essayists who, since the 1970s, have presented various subjects in science fiction, popular science and cosmology.

Igor Shelushkov

Igor Alexeyevich Shelushkov (– ?) was a Soviet mental calculator.

Illegal Alien (Sawyer novel)

Illegal Alien is a science fiction and mystery novel by Canadian novelist Robert J. Sawyer.

Imaginary voyage

Imaginary voyage is a kind of narrative in which utopian or satirical representation (or some popular science content) is put into a fictional frame of travel account.

Inside the Atom

Inside the Atom is a popular science book by American author Isaac Asimov.

Institute of National Remembrance

The Institute of National Remembrance – Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation (Instytut Pamięci Narodowej – Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu; IPN) is a Polish government-affiliated research institute with lustration prerogatives, as well as prosecution powers.

Introducing... (book series)

The Introducing... series is a book series of graphic guides covering key thinkers and topics in philosophy, psychology and science, and many others in politics, religion, cultural studies, linguistics and other areas.

Ira Joralemon

Ira Beaman Joralemon (1884 – 1975) was an American mining engineer, economic geologist, and mining company executive, who specialized in exploration and mining of copper ore deposits.

Irish Skeptics Society

The Irish Skeptics Society (ISS) is a scientific skeptical organisation based in Ireland.

Irreligion in Russia

Irreligion was official state policy during the Soviet Union and was rigorously enforced.

Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University.

Isaac Asimov bibliography (chronological)

In a writing career spanning 53 years (1939–1992), science fiction and popular science author Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) wrote and published 40 novels, 382 short stories, over 280 non-fiction books, and edited about 147 others.

ISpot

iSpot is a website developed and hosted by the Open University with funding from the Open Air Laboratories (OPAL) network with an online community intended to connect nature enthusiasts of all levels.

Iuliu Barasch

Iuliu Barasch or Baraş (1815—1863) was a Galician-born Jewish physician and writer who made his career in Romania.

Ivan Đaja

Ivan Đaja (Иван Ђаја, Jean Giaja; 21 July 1884 – 1 October 1957) was a Serbian biologist, physiologist, author and philosopher.

Ivan Tarkhanov (physiologist)

Ivan Romanovich Tarkhanov (Иван Романович Тарханов) or Ivane Tarkhnishvili (ივანე რამაზის–ძე თარხნიშვილი, თარხან-მოურავი; June 1846 – September 1908) was a Georgian physiologist and science populariser from the Tarkhan-Mouravi noble family.

Ivar Ekeland

Ivar I. Ekeland (born 2 July 1944, Paris) is a French mathematician of Norwegian descent.

J. B. S. Haldane

John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (5 November 18921 December 1964) was an English scientist known for his work in the study of physiology, genetics, evolutionary biology, and in mathematics, where he made innovative contributions to the fields of statistics and biostatistics.

Jacques Cousteau

Jacques-Yves Cousteau (11 June 1910 – 25 June 1997) was a French naval officer, explorer, conservationist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water.

Jacques Hiron

Jacques Hiron (born 1946) is a former merchant turned journalist, and writer of popular science, fiction and graphic novels.

Jagjit Singh (writer)

Jagjit Singh (1912–2002) was an Indian writer and science popularizer.

James May's Man Lab

James May's Man Lab is a British television series presented by former Top Gear presenter James May.

Jana Milčinski

Jana Milčinski (born Jana Podkrajšek) (5 December 1920 – 13 April 2007) was a Slovene writer, journalist and translator.

Jane McIntosh

Jane McIntosh is a Scottish archaeologist and author.

Janez Matjašič

Janez Matjašič (14 May 1921 – 9 August 1996) was a Slovene zoologist.

Janusz Tazbir

Janusz Tazbir (August 5, 1927 – May 3, 2016) was a Polish historian, specializing in the culture and religion of Poland in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Jared Diamond

Jared Mason Diamond (born September 10, 1937) is an American ecologist, geographer, biologist, anthropologist and author best known for his popular science books The Third Chimpanzee (1991); Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997, awarded a Pulitzer Prize); Collapse (2005); and The World Until Yesterday (2012).

Jared Diamond bibliography

Jared Mason Diamond (born September 10, 1937) is an American scientist and author best known for his popular science books The Third Chimpanzee (1991), Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997), Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (2005) and The World Until Yesterday (2012).

Jørn Hurum

Jørn Harald Hurum (born November 4, 1967) is a Norwegian paleontologist and popularizer of science.

Jean-Augustin Barral

Jean-Augustin Barral (31 January 1819 – 10 September 1884) was a French agronomist and balloonist.

Jean-Claude Pecker

Jean-Claude Pecker (born 10 May 1923) is a French astronomer, astrophysicist and author, member of the Académie des Sciences and former director of the Nice Observatory.

Jeff Forshaw

Jeffrey Robert Forshaw (born 1968) is a British particle physicist with a special interest in quantum chromodynamics (QCD): the study of the behaviour of subatomic particles, using data from the HERA particle accelerator, Tevatron particle accelerator and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN.

Jennifer Doudna

Jennifer Anne Doudna (born 19 February 1964) is an American biochemist, professor of chemistry at the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Jerzy Adam Kowalski

Jerzy Adam Kowalski (born 1958) is a Polish researcher and popular science author in the field of human sexuality.

Jerzy Vetulani

Jerzy Adam Gracjan Vetulani (21 January 1936 – 6 April 2017) was a Polish neuroscientist, pharmacologist and biochemist, professor of natural sciences, member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Polish Academy of Learning, one of the most frequently cited Polish scientists in the field of biomedicine after 1965.

Jim Hoffman

Jim Hoffman is a website engineer in Oakland, California, who created several web sites about the September 11, 2001 attacks that analyze and suggest alternative accounts for the events of that day.

Johan Peter Weisse

Johan Peter Weisse (13 August 1832 – 7 March 1886) was a Norwegian philologist.

John A. List

John August List (born September 25, 1968) is an American economist at the University of Chicago, where he serves as Kenneth C. Griffin Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the Chairman of the Department of Economics.

John D. Barrow

John David Barrow (born 29 November 1952) is an English cosmologist, theoretical physicist, and mathematician.

John Hughes (computer scientist)

Jolanta Antas

Jolanta Antas (born 20 February 1954 in Szczecin) is a Polish scientist and professor of linguistics at the Jagiellonian University of Kraków.

Jon Butterworth

Jonathan Mark Butterworth is a Professor of Physics at University College London (UCL) working on the ATLAS experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

Joseph A. Schwarcz

Joseph A. Schwarcz is an author and a professor at McGill University.

Jules Verne

Jules Gabriel Verne (Longman Pronunciation Dictionary.; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright.

Justin Rowlatt

Justin Rowlatt (born June 1966) is a British news reporter and television presenter.

Kalinga Prize

The Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science is an award given by UNESCO for exceptional skill in presenting scientific ideas to lay people.

Karl Kruszelnicki

Karl Kruszelnicki (born 20 March 1948), often referred to as "Dr Karl", is a well-known Australian science communicator and populariser, who is known as an author and science commentator on Australian radio and television.

Kathleen Taylor (biologist)

Kathleen E. Taylor is a popular science author and a research scientist in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics at the University of Oxford.

Keith Devlin

Keith J. Devlin (born 16 March 1947) is a British mathematician and popular science writer.

Kellie Gerardi

Kellie Gerardi is a commercial spaceflight industry professional and popular science communicator.

Khimiya i Zhizn – XXI Vek

Khimiya i Zhizn – XXI Vek ("Химия и жизнь – XXI век", Chemistry and Life – 21st Century) is a Russian popular scientific monthly magazine, known as simply Khimiya i Zhizn during Soviet times.

Klub Sceptyków Polskich

Klub Sceptyków Polskich or KSP (English: Polish Skeptics Club or Polish Sceptics Club) is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation actively engaged in the promotion of critical thinking, scientific skepticism and scientific methods.

Knowledge (magazine)

Knowledge: An Illustrated Magazine of Science was a British popular science magazine published from 1881 to 1918.

Krzysztof Boruń

Krzysztof Boruń (November 23, 1923 – May 22, 2000) was a Polish physicist, journalist and science fiction writer.

Kvant (magazine)

Kvant (Квант for "quantum") is a popular science magazine in physics and mathematics for school students and teachers, issued since 1970 in Soviet Union and continued in Russia.

KyivNaukFilm

KyivNaukFilm (Київнаукфільм Kyïvnaukfil′m, sometimes translated as Kyiv Science Film) was a film studio in the former Soviet Union located in Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, established in 1941.

La Nature

La Nature (English: Nature) was a French language magazine aimed at the popularization of science established in 1873 by French scientist and adventurer Gaston Tissandier.

La Recherche

La Recherche is a monthly French language popular science magazine covering recent scientific news.

Lady tasting tea

In the design of experiments in statistics, the lady tasting tea is a randomized experiment devised by Ronald Fisher and reported in his book The Design of Experiments (1935).

László Mérő

László Mérő (December 11, 1949, Budapest -) is a Hungarian research psychologist and popular science author.

Leif Ryvarden

Leif Randulff Ryvarden (born 9 August 1935) is a Norwegian mycologist.

Leif Størmer

Leif Størmer (1 July 1905 – 15 May 1979) was a Norwegian paleontologist and geologist.

Leon M. Lederman

Leon Max Lederman (born July 15, 1922) is an American experimental physicist who received the Wolf Prize in Physics in 1982, along with Martin Lewis Perl, for their research on quarks and leptons, and the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1988, along with Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger, for their research on neutrinos.

Lera Boroditsky

Lera Boroditsky (born 1976/77 in Belarus) is a cognitive scientist and professor known for her research in the fields of language and cognition.

Lev Uspensky

Lev Vasilyevich Uspensky (Лев Васильевич Успенский, 8 February 1900 – 18 December 1978) was a Russian writer and philologist, known for his popular science books in linguistics.

Li Sizhong (ichthyologist)

Li Sizhong (2/19 1921 – 1/11, 2009) was an ichthyologist with the (中国科学院动物研究所) at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Ligado Networks

Ligado Networks is an American satellite communications company developing a satellite-terrestrial network to support 5G and Internet of Things applications in North America.

Light-second

The light-second is a unit of length useful in astronomy, telecommunications and relativistic physics.

Light-year

The light-year is a unit of length used to express astronomical distances and measures about 9.5 trillion kilometres or 5.9 trillion miles.

Linked: The New Science of Networks

Linked: The New Science of Networks is a popular science book written by the Hungarian physicist Albert-László Barabási and first published by the Perseus Books Group in 2002.

List of agnostics

Listed here are persons who have identified themselves as theologically agnostic.

List of atheists (surnames A to B)

Atheists with surnames starting A and B, sortable by the field for which they are mainly known and nationality.

List of Brooklyn College alumni

This is a list of alumni of Brooklyn College, a senior college of the City University of New York, located in Brooklyn, New York, United States.

List of deists

This is a partial list of people who have been categorized as deists, the belief in a deity based on natural religion only, or belief in religious truths discovered by people through a process of reasoning, independent of any revelation through scripture or prophets.

List of documentary television channels

This is a list of documentary channels, including channels that have been affected by "channel drift".

List of giant squid specimens and sightings

This list of giant squid specimens and sightings is a comprehensive timeline of recorded human encounters with members of the genus Architeuthis, popularly known as giant squid.

List of HIV-positive people

This is a categorized, alphabetical list of people who are known to have been infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the pathogen that causes AIDS, including those who have died.

List of Jewish atheists and agnostics

Based on Jewish law's emphasis on matrilineal descent, even religiously conservative Orthodox Jewish authorities would accept an atheist born to a Jewish mother as fully Jewish.

List of Michigan State University people

Michigan State University alumni number around 552,000 worldwide.

List of Norwegian magazines

In Norway, the number of women's magazines in 2013 were 17, whereas there were only three men's magazines.

List of paleontologists

This is a list of notable paleontologists who have made significant contributions to the field of paleontology.

List of popular science books on evolution

This is a list of popular science books concerning evolution, sorted by surname of the author.

List of Russian people

This is a list of people associated with the modern Russian Federation, the Soviet Union, Imperial Russia, Russian Tsardom, the Grand Duchy of Moscow, and other predecessor states of Russia.

List of Russian scientists

Alona Soschen.

List of scientific demonstrations

This is a list of scientific demonstrations used in educational demonstrations and popular science lectures.

List of television series canceled after one episode

Some television series are canceled after one episode, quickly removed from a broadcast schedule, or had production halted after their premieres.

List of Time Warp episodes

This is an episode list of the popular science television program Time Warp, which aired on the Discovery Channel.

List of University of California, Los Angeles people

This is a list of notable present and former faculty, staff, and students of the University of California, Los Angeles − UCLA.

Loch Ness Monster

The Loch Ness Monster or Nessie is a cryptid of Scottish folklore, reputedly inhabiting Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands.

Lois H. Gresh

Lois Harriet Gresh is a New York Times Best-Selling author of ten science fiction novels and story collections and seventeen popular science and pop culture books, some in collaboration with Robert Weinberg.

Look Around You

Look Around You is a British television comedy series devised and written by Robert Popper and Peter Serafinowicz, and narrated in the first series by Nigel Lambert.

Louis Diamond

Louis Klein Diamond (May 11, 1902 – June 14, 1999) was an American pediatrician, known as the "father of pediatric hematology".

Luc Bürgin

Luc Bürgin (born August 19, 1970 in Basel) is a Swiss writer, publicist, and journalist.

Ludvig Holm-Olsen

Ludvig Holm-Olsen (9 June 1914 – 10 June 1990) was a Norwegian philologist.

Lynn Poole

Lynn Poole (August 11, 1910 – April 14, 1969) was the creator and host of an early U.S. science television program, The Johns Hopkins Science Review (1948–1955), and the author of more than 20 popular science books.

Lynne Kelly (science writer)

Lynne Kelly (born 1951) is an Australian writer, researcher and science educator.

M. P. Parameswaran

Magia Naturalis

Magia Naturalis (in English, Natural Magic) is a work of popular science by Giambattista della Porta first published in Naples in 1558.

Man vs. Cartoon

Man vs.

Manual of Medical Diagnostics and Healthcare

Arsti ramat nende juhhatamisseks kes tahtwad többed ärraarwada ning parrandada (Estonian for Manual of medical diagnostics and healthcare, literally Doctor's book to instruct those who want to guess and repair ailments) was the first medical manual written in Estonian and is also regarded as the beginning of Estonian popular-scientific literature.

Manuel Alfonseca

Manuel Alfonseca (born 1946, Madrid) is a Spanish writer and university professor.

Mao Yisheng

Dr.

Maria Konnikova

Maria Konnikova is a Russian-American writer who lives in New York City and has an A.B. in psychology and creative writing from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in psychology from Columbia University.

Marion Montaigne

Marion Montaigne (born April 8, 1980) is a French cartoonist, known particularly for her popular science comics.

Mark Rober

Mark Rober (born 11 March 1980) is an American engineer, inventor and YouTube personality.

Martin Gardner

Martin Gardner (October 21, 1914May 22, 2010) was an American popular mathematics and popular science writer, with interests also encompassing scientific skepticism, micromagic, philosophy, religion, and literature—especially the writings of Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum, and G. K. Chesterton.

Martin Gardner bibliography

In a publishing career spanning 80 years (1930-2010), popular mathematics and science writer Martin Gardner (1914-2010) authored or edited over 100 books and countless articles, columns and reviews.

Martyn Amos

Martyn Amos is a Professor of Novel Computation in the School of Computing, Mathematics and Digital Technology at Manchester Metropolitan University, and an expert on natural computation and DNA computing.

Martyn Poliakoff

Sir Martyn Poliakoff CBE CChem FRS FRSC FIChemE (born 16 December 1947) is a British chemist, working on gaining insights into fundamental chemistry, and on developing environmentally acceptable processes and materials.

Mary Roach

Mary Roach is an American author, specializing in popular science and humor.

Mary Treat

Mary Lua Adelia Davis Treat (7 September 1830 in Trumansburg, New York – 11 April 1923 in Pembroke, New York) was a naturalist and correspondent with Charles Darwin.

Mashal (organisation)

Mashal is a non-commercial and non-profit organization located in Lahore, Pakistan which promotes and conducts educational and social activities, and publishes books in Urdu on women's rights, education, environment, science, philosophy, and contemporary issues.

Mathias Sigwardt Greve

Mathias Sigwardt Greve (17 September 1832 – 27 December 1912) was a Norwegian physician, best known as the director of Rikshospitalet from 1883 to 1911.

Matt Ridley

Sir Matthew White Ridley, 5th Viscount Ridley (born 7 February 1958), commonly known as Matt Ridley, is a British journalist and businessman.

Matvei Petrovich Bronstein

Matvei Petrovich Bronstein (Матвей Петрович Бронштейн,, Vinnytsia – February 18, 1938) was a Soviet theoretical physicist, a pioneer of quantum gravity, author of works in astrophysics, semiconductors, quantum electrodynamics and cosmology, as well as of a number of books in popular science for children.

Maurice Kraitchik

Maurice Kraitchik (April 21, 1882 – August 19, 1957) was a Belgian mathematician and populariser.

Max Speter

Max Speter (1 April 1883 – 30 June 1942) was a German chemist and science historian.

Mówią Wieki

Mówią Wieki (meaning Centuries Speak in English) is a monthly popular science history magazine published in Poland since 1958.

Meanings of minor planet names: 337001–338000

337001-338000.

Mechanical equivalent of heat

In the history of science, the mechanical equivalent of heat states that motion and heat are mutually interchangeable and that in every case, a given amount of work would generate the same amount of heat, provided the work done is totally converted to heat energy.

Mechanics of the Brain

Mechanics of the Brain (Myekhanika golovnogo mozga) is a 1926 Soviet documentary film directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin, a popularization of Ivan Pavlov's studies in classical conditioning.

Melody Beattie

Melody Beattie is an American author of self-help books on codependent relationships.

Menno Schilthuizen

Menno Schilthuizen (born 1965, Vlaardingen) is a Dutch evolutionary biologist, ecologist, and permanent research scientist at Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden and a professor in character evolution and biodiversity at Leiden University, The Netherlands.

Metamagical Themas

Metamagical Themas is an eclectic collection of articles that Douglas Hofstadter wrote for the popular science magazine Scientific American during the early 1980s.

Michael Stevens (educator)

Michael David Stevens (born January 23, 1986) is an American educator, public speaker, comedian, entertainer, editor, and Internet celebrity, best known for creating and hosting the popular education YouTube channel Vsauce.

Michio Kaku

Michio Kaku (born 24 January 1947) is an American theoretical physicist, futurist, and popularizer of science.

Mikhail Tsekhanovsky

Mikhail Mikhailovich Tsekhanovsky (Михаил Михайлович Цехановский; — 22 June 1965) was a Russian and Soviet artist, animation director, book illustrator, screenwriter, sculptor and educator.

Milutin Milanković

Milutin Milanković (Милутин Миланковић, pronounced; 28 May 1879 – 12 December 1958) was a Serbian mathematician, astronomer, climatologist, geophysicist, civil engineer and popularizer of science.

Mir Fantastiki

Mir Fantastiki (Мир фантастики), officially abbreviated as MirF, is a Russian monthly science fiction and fantasy magazine.

Miroslav Adlešič

Miroslav Adlešič (13 December 1907 – 9 February 2002) was a Slovene physicist, specialist in acoustics, author of numerous books and textbooks on physics.

Miroslav Zei

Miroslav Zei (25 July 1914 – 2 November 2006) was a Slovene biologist, specialist in marine biology, oceanography and ichthyology.

Mitochondrial Eve

In human genetics, the Mitochondrial Eve (also mt-Eve, mt-MRCA) is the matrilineal most recent common ancestor (MRCA) of all currently living humans, i.e., the most recent woman from whom all living humans descend in an unbroken line purely through their mothers, and through the mothers of those mothers, back until all lines converge on one woman.

Moscow Center for Consciousness Studies

The Moscow Center for Consciousness Studies (MCCS) – a scientific organization, which conducts and coordinates domestic and international research on consciousness, the mind-body problem, free will and moral responsibility.

Mr Tompkins

Mr Tompkins is the title character in a series of four popular science books by the physicist George Gamow.

Music psychology

Music psychology, or the psychology of music, may be regarded as a branch of both psychology and musicology.

Muy Interesante

Muy Interesante (meaning Very Interesting in English) is a monthly popular science magazine which deals with fun facts and current events, such as the development of nanotechnology, physics, biology, astronomy, genetics, neurosciences, new investigations and inventions, and world affairs.

MythBusters

MythBusters is an Australian-American science entertainment television program created by Peter Rees and produced by Australia's Beyond Television Productions.

Nationalnyckeln till Sveriges flora och fauna

Nationalnyckeln till Sveriges flora och fauna (Swedish for "National Key to Sweden's Flora and Fauna") is a set of books, the first volume of which, Fjärilar: Dagfjärilar (Butterflies, 140 species), appeared on 25 April 2005.

Natural History (Pliny)

The Natural History (Naturalis Historia) is a book about the whole of the natural world in Latin by Pliny the Elder, a Roman author and naval commander who died in 79 AD.

Naturen

Naturen (The Nature) is a Norwegian popular science magazine, which has been published since 1877 in Bergen, Norway.

Nauka i Zhizn

Nauka i Zhizn (Science and Life, Наука и жизнь) is a science magazine first issued during the years 1890-1900 in Imperial Russia, and then since 1934 in the Soviet Union (and continued in the Russian Federation today).

Naum Ya. Vilenkin

Naum Yakovlevich Vilenkin, Наум Яковлевич Виленкин, (October 30, 1920, Moscow — 1991, Moscow) was a Soviet mathematician, an expert in combinatorics.

Neal Bascomb

Neal Bascomb (born 1971) is an American journalist and author.

Neil Shubin

Neil Shubin (born December 22, 1960) is an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science writer.

Neuroscience of religion

The neuroscience of religion, also known as neurotheology and as spiritual neuroscience, attempts to explain religious experience and behaviour in neuroscientific terms.

New Naturalist

The New Naturalist Library (also known as The New Naturalists) is a series of books published by Collins in the United Kingdom, on a variety of natural history topics relevant to the British Isles.

Ni Wei-Tou

Ni Wei-Tou (born 1944 in Zhenhai, Ningbo, Zhejiang) is a Taiwanese physicist, who graduated from the Department of Physics of National Taiwan University (NTU), and got his PhD of Physics & Mathematics from California Institute of Technology.

Nick Lane

Nick Lane (born 1967) is a British biochemist and writer.

Nigel Calder

Nigel David McKail Ritchie-Calder (2 December 1931 – 25 June 2014) was a British science writer.

NightWatch: A Practical Guide to Viewing the Universe

NightWatch: A Practical Guide to Viewing the Universe is a best-selling popular science book by Terence Dickinson.

Non-coding DNA

In genomics and related disciplines, noncoding DNA sequences are components of an organism's DNA that do not encode protein sequences.

Non-fiction

Non-fiction or nonfiction is content (sometimes, in the form of a story) whose creator, in good faith, assumes responsibility for the truth or accuracy of the events, people, or information presented.

Nordic Science Centre Association

The Nordic Science Centre Association (also known as NSCF, abbreviated from the Swedish name Nordisk Science Center Forbund) was established in a meeting in Finland in October 1987.

Nova (TV series)

Nova (stylized NOVΛ) is an American popular science television series produced by WGBH Boston.

Novators

Novators(Novatory) is a Russian popular-science cartoon which tells about the inventions of Russian scientists.

Novaya Gazeta

Novaya Gazeta (p) is a Russian newspaper well known in its country for its critical and investigative coverage of Russian political and social affairs.

Ocelloid

An ocelloid is a subcellular structure found in the family Warnowiaceae (warnowiids), which are a members of a group of unicellular organisms known as dinoflagellates.

On the Origin of Species

On the Origin of Species (or more completely, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life),The book's full original title was On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.

Oton Kučera

Oton Kučera (1 January 1857, Petrinja – 29 December 1931, Zagreb) was a Croatian astronomer.

Our Mathematical Universe

Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality is a 2014 nonfiction book by the Swedish-American cosmologist Max Tegmark.

Paolo Lioy

Paolo Lioy (31 July 1834, Vicenza – 27 January 1911, Vancimuglio di Grumolo delle Abbadesse) was an Italian naturalist, redshirt patriot and politician.

Parallel Worlds (book)

Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos is a popular science book by Michio Kaku first published in 2004.

Parsec

The parsec (symbol: pc) is a unit of length used to measure large distances to astronomical objects outside the Solar System.

Partha Ghose

Partha Ghose, (born 1939), FNASc, is an Indian physicist, author, philosopher, musician and former Professor at the S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences in Kolkata.

Pathological science

Pathological science is an area of research where "people are tricked into false results...

Patrick Moore

Sir Patrick Alfred Caldwell-Moore (4 March 19239 December 2012) was an English amateur astronomer who attained prominent status in that field as a writer, researcher, radio commentator and television presenter.

Paul Danblon

Paul Danblon (25 July 1931 – 8 February 2018) was a Belgian composer, opera director and administrator, and journalist.

Paul S. Wesson

Paul S. Wesson, B.Sc., Ph.D., D.Sc., F.R.A.S (September 11, 1949 – September 16, 2015) was a professor of astrophysics and theoretical physics.

Pavel Kunaver

Pavel Kunaver (19 December 1889 – 19 April 1988) was a Slovene pedagogue, writer of popular science books, geography, history and Slovene language teacher and pioneer of amateur astronomy in Slovenia.

People's science movement

The people's science movement (PSM) aims to popularize science and a scientific outlook among common people.

Periclimenes dardanicola

Periclimenes dardanicola is a species of shrimp found in the western Pacific Ocean.

Peter J. Bentley

Dr Peter John Bentley (born 16 May 1972) is a British author and computer scientist based at University College London.

Peter Sjøholt

Peter Sjøholt (8 July 1925 – 14 July 2011) was a Norwegian geographer.

Petr Horálek

Petr Horálek (born July 21, 1986) is a Czech astrophotographer, popularizer of astronomy and an artist.

Petre P. Negulescu

Petre Paul Negulescu (October 18, 1870 – September 28, 1951) was a Romanian philosopher and conservative politician, known as a disciple and continuator of Titu Maiorescu.

Phantoms in the Brain

Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind (also published as Phantoms in the Brain: Human Nature and the Architecture of the Mind) is a 1998 popular science book by neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran and New York Times science writer Sandra Blakeslee, discussing neurophysiology and neuropsychology as revealed by case studies of neurological disorders.

Pharyngula (blog)

Pharyngula, a blog founded and written by PZ Myers, is hosted on ScienceBlogs (2005–2011, in full, and 2011–present, in part) and on FreeThoughtBlogs (2011–present).

Phil Plait

Philip Cary Plait (born September 30, 1964), also known as The Bad Astronomer, is an American astronomer, skeptic, writer and popular science blogger.

Philip Morrison

Philip Morrison (November 7, 1915 – April 22, 2005) was a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Phlogiston theory

The phlogiston theory is a superseded scientific theory that postulated that a fire-like element called phlogiston is contained within combustible bodies and released during combustion.

Phoebe Lankester

Phoebe Lankester (also Phebe Lankester, 10 April 1825 – 9 April 1900) was a British botanist known for her popular science writing, particularly on wildflowers, parasitic plants, and ferns.

Physics of the Future

Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100 is a 2011 book by theoretical physicist Michio Kaku, author of Hyperspace and Physics of the Impossible.

Physics outreach

Physics outreach encompasses facets of science outreach and physics education and is an umbrella term for a variety of activities by schools, research institutes, universities, clubs and institutions such as science museums aimed at broadening the audience for and awareness and understanding of physics.

Piergiorgio Odifreddi

Piergiorgio Odifreddi (born 13 July 1950 in Cuneo) is an Italian mathematician, logician and aficionado of the history of science, who is also extremely active as a popular science writer and essayist, especially in a perspective of philosophical atheism as a member of the Italian Union of Rationalist Atheists and Agnostics.

Popular history

Popular history is a broad and somewhat ill-defined genre of historiography that takes a popular approach, aims at a wide readership, and usually emphasizes narrative, personality and vivid detail over scholarly analysis.

Popular Mechanics

Popular Mechanics is a classic magazine of popular science and technology.

Popular psychology

Popular psychology (sometimes shortened as pop psychology or pop psych) is the concepts and theories about human mental life and behavior that are purportedly based on psychology and that find credence among and pass muster with the populace.

Popular Science

Popular Science (also known as PopSci) is an American quarterly magazine carrying popular science content, which refers to articles for the general reader on science and technology subjects.

Popular science (disambiguation)

Popular science may refer to.

Positronic brain

A positronic brain is a fictional technological device, originally conceived by science fiction writer Isaac Asimov.

Power, Sex, Suicide

Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life is a 2005 popular science book by Nick Lane of University College London, which argues that mitochondria are central to questions of the evolution of multicellularity, the evolution of sexual reproduction, and to the process of senescence.

Presupposition

In the branch of linguistics known as pragmatics, a presupposition (or PSP) is an implicit assumption about the world or background belief relating to an utterance whose truth is taken for granted in discourse.

Prime Obsession

Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics (2003) is a historical book on mathematics by John Derbyshire, detailing the history of the Riemann hypothesis, named for Bernhard Riemann, and some of its applications.

Profile Books

Profile Books is a British independent book publishing firm founded in 1996.

Programming the Universe

Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes On the Cosmos is a 2006 popular science book by Seth Lloyd, professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Proton decay

In particle physics, proton decay is a hypothetical form of radioactive decay in which the proton decays into lighter subatomic particles, such as a neutral pion and a positron.

Pseudodoxia Epidemica

Pseudodoxia Epidemica or Enquiries into very many received tenets and commonly presumed truths, also known simply as Pseudodoxia Epidemica or Vulgar Errors, is a work by Thomas Browne challenging and refuting the "vulgar" or common errors and superstitions of his age.

QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter is an adaptation for the general reader of four lectures on quantum electrodynamics (QED) published in 1985 by American physicist and Nobel laureate Richard Feynman.

Quantum Bayesianism

In physics and the philosophy of physics, quantum Bayesianism (QBism) is an interpretation of quantum mechanics that takes an agent's actions and experiences as the central concerns of the theory.

Quo (magazine)

Quo is a monthly Spanish-language pop-science magazine that informs about science through thinking and entertainment.

Race and intelligence

The connection between race and intelligence has been a subject of debate in both popular science and academic research since the inception of IQ testing in the early 20th century.

Ram Brahma Sanyal

Ram Brahma Sanyal (1858 - 13 October 1908) was the first superintendent of the Alipore Zoological Gardens in Kolkata (then Calcutta).

Ray Jayawardhana

Ray Jayawardhana is the Dean of Science and a Professor of physics & astronomy at York University.

Read Montague

Read Montague (born 1960) is an American neuroscientist and popular science author.

Recreational mathematics

Recreational mathematics is mathematics carried out for recreation (entertainment) rather than as a strictly research and application-based professional activity.

Reginald Punnett

Reginald Crundall Punnett FRS (20 June 1875 – 3 January 1967) was a British geneticist who co-founded, with William Bateson, the Journal of Genetics in 1910.

René Mailhot

René Mailhot (1942/43 – April 28, 2007) was a Canadian journalist from the province of Quebec.

Reta Beebe

Reta F. Beebe (born October 10, 1936 in Baca County Colorado) is an American astronomer, author, and popularizer of astronomy.

Rhetoric of health and medicine

The Rhetoric of Health and Medicine (or Medical Rhetoric) is an academic discipline concerning language and symbols in health and medicine.

Rhinelandic regiolect

The terms Rhinelandic, Rhenish, and Rhinelandic regiolect are used to name the colloquial language spoken in the so-called Rhineland of West Germany.

Richard David Precht

Richard David Precht (born 8 December 1964) is a German philosopher and author of successful popular science books about philosophical issues.

Richard Pokorný

Richard Pokorný (June 7, 1979, Rychnov nad Kněžnou) is a Czech paleontologist, speleologist and a traveler.

Rick Brant

Rick Brant is the central character in a series of 24 adventure and mystery novels by John Blaine, a pseudonym for authors Harold L. Goodwin (all titles) and Peter J. Harkins (co-author of the first three).

Riin Tamm

Riin Tamm (born 12 August 1981) is an Estonian geneticist working at the University of Tartu, and a science popularizer.

River Out of Eden

River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life is a 1995 popular science book by Richard Dawkins.

Robert Bartholomew (sociologist)

Robert Bartholomew (born August 17, 1958) is an American medical sociologist, journalist and author living in New Zealand.

Robert Claiborne

Robert Watson Claiborne, Jr.

Robert D. Hare

Robert D. Hare, C.M. (born 1934 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada) is a researcher in the field of criminal psychology.

Robert Matthews (scientist)

Robert A.J. Matthews (born 23 September 1959), is a British physicist and science writer.

Rodina (magazine)

Rodina (Родина, Motherland) is a Russian illustrated popular science and history magazine headquartered in Moscow, Russia.

Roger Bacon

Roger Bacon (Rogerus or Rogerius Baconus, Baconis, also Rogerus), also known by the scholastic accolade Doctor, was an English philosopher and Franciscan friar who placed considerable emphasis on the study of nature through empiricism.

Roger Highfield

Roger Ronald Highfield (born 1958 in Griffithstown, Wales) is an author, science journalist, broadcaster and director of external affairs at the Science Museum Group.

Rosalind Picard

Rosalind Wright Picard (born May 17, 1962) is an American scholar who is Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT, founder and director of the Affective Computing Research Group at the MIT Media Lab, and co-founder of the startups Affectiva and Empatica.

Rose: Love in Violent Times

Rose is the 2010 book by Inga Muscio which looks into the passive and physical violence in our daily lives and describes how we might find love within this violence.

Rosina Zornlin

Rosina Zornlin (6 December 1795 – 22 May 1859) was a British author who wrote science popularizations and works on religion.

Rough Guides

Rough Guides Ltd is a British travel guidebook and reference publisher, since November 2017 owned by APA Publications.

Royal Statistical Society

The Royal Statistical Society (RSS) is one of the world's most distinguished and renowned statistical societies.

Russian science fiction and fantasy

Science fiction and fantasy have been part of mainstream Russian literature since the 19th century.

Sabine Hossenfelder

Sabine Hossenfelder (born 18 September 1976) is a blogger and Theoretical Physicist who researches quantum gravity.

Safari (magazine)

Safari is a monthly Gujarati popular science and general knowledge magazine published by Harshal Publications, Ahmedabad in Gujarat, India.

Salvador Luria

Salvador Edward Luria (August 13, 1912 – February 6, 1991) was an Italian microbiologist, later a naturalized U.S. citizen.

Samuel-Henri Berthoud

Samuel-Henri Berthoud (19 January 1804 – 26 March 1891) was a 19th-century French writer, journalist, and popular science writer for youth.

São Paulo Research Foundation

São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP, Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) is a public foundation located in São Paulo, Brazil, with the aim of providing grants, funds and programs to support research, education and innovation of private and public institutions and companies in the state of São Paulo.

Sørup runestone

The Sørup runestone (Danish: Sørup-stenen) is a runestone from Sørup close by Svendborg on southern Funen in Denmark.

Süddeutsche Zeitung

The Süddeutsche Zeitung (German for South German Newspaper), published in Munich, Bavaria, is one of the largest daily newspapers in Germany.

Schrödinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality

Schrödinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality is a 1995 book by John Gribbin, in which the author attempts to explain the mysteries of modern quantum mechanics in a popular-scientific way.

Science

R. P. Feynman, The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol.1, Chaps.1,2,&3.

Science (1979–1986 magazine)

Science was a general science magazine published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) from 1979 to 1986.

Science book

A science book is a work of nonfiction, usually written by a scientist, researcher, or professor like Stephen Hawking (A Brief History of Time), or sometimes by a non-scientist such as Bill Bryson (A Short History of Nearly Everything).

Science communication

Science communication is the public communication of science-related topics to non-experts.

Science Illustrated

Science Illustrated is a multilingual popular science magazine published by Bonnier Publications International A/S.

Science in popular culture

Science in popular culture is the treatment of scientific themes and issues in popular media such as cinema, music, television and novels.

Science information on Wikipedia

Science information on Wikipedia includes the information which Wikipedia presents about science.

Science journalism

Science journalism conveys reporting about science to the public.

Science outreach

Science outreach, also called Education and Public Outreach (EPO or E/PO) or simply public outreach, is an umbrella term for a variety of activities by research institutes, universities, and institutions such as science museums, aimed at promoting public awareness (and understanding) of science and making informal contributions to science education.

Science Reporter

Science Reporter is a monthly popular science magazine that has been published in India since 1964 Started in 1964, Science Reporter is one of the oldest English language popular science monthlies published in India.

Science Society of China

The Science Society of China (1915-1960) was a major science organization in the modern history of China.

Science-Gossip

Science-Gossip was the common name for two series of monthly popular-science magazines, that were published from 1865 to 1893 and from 1894 to 1902. The first series was called Hardwicke's Science-Gossip, and the second series Science-Gossip.

ScienceBlogs

ScienceBlogs was an invitation-only blog network and virtual community that operated for a little less than twelve years, from 2006 to 2017.

Scientific American

Scientific American (informally abbreviated SciAm) is an American popular science magazine.

Scientific terminology

Scientific terminology is the part of the language that is used by scientists in the context of their professional activities.

Scientriffic

Scientriffic was a bi-monthly kids science magazine published by CSIRO Publishing.

Sebastian Leitner

Sebastian Leitner (1919 in Salzburg – 1989) was a German commentator and science popularizer.

Seveneves

Seveneves is a hard science fiction novel by Neal Stephenson published in 2015.

Shanghai Science and Technology Museum

Shanghai Science and Technology Museum is a large museum in Pudong, Shanghai, close to Century Park, the largest park within the inner districts of the city.

Simon Singh

Simon Lehna Singh, (born 19 September 1964) is a British popular science author, theoretical and particle physicist whose works largely contain a strong mathematical element.

Skepter

Skepter is a popular science magazine of the Dutch skeptical foundation Stichting Skepsis.

Skeptic Society

The Skeptic Society (Russian: Общество скептиков, Óbščestvo skeptikov) is a Russian-speaking skeptical society.

Slavonic-Serbian

Slavonic-Serbian (славяносербскій, slavyanoserbskiy), Slavo-Serbian, or Slaveno-Serbian (славено-сербскiй, slaveno-serbski; славеносрпски/slavenosrpski) was a literary language used by the Serbs in the Habsburg Empire, mostly in what is now Vojvodina, from the mid-18th century to the first decades of the 19th century.

Smartest Guy In The Room

Smartest Guy In The Room is an entertainment documentary series that tests the problem solving capabilities of three individuals: Guy Messenger, Randy Rice and Terry Myers.

Sneed B. Collard III

Sneed Body Collard III (born November 7, 1959) is an American author.

So You've Been Publicly Shamed

So You've Been Publicly Shamed (2015) is a book by British journalist Jon Ronson about online shaming and its historical antecedents.

Sonda (TV series)

Sonda was a Polish television popular science series broadcast between 1977 and 1989.

Songshuhui.net

Songshuhui.net is a Chinese collaborative blog focusing on popular science for the general public.

Soviet Student Olympiads

Soviet Student Olympiad was an annual set of contests for students in USSR.

Speed of light

The speed of light in vacuum, commonly denoted, is a universal physical constant important in many areas of physics.

St. Albans School (Washington, D.C.)

St.

Stalin and the Scientists

Stalin and the Scientists: A History of Triumph and Tragedy 1905–1953 is a 2016 popular science non-fiction book on the history of science in the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin by English novelist and science writer, Simon Ings.

Stargazing Live

Stargazing Live was a British live television programme on astronomy that was broadcast yearly since its first broadcast on BBC Two in January 2011.

Stephen Hawking

Stephen William Hawking (8 January 1942 – 14 March 2018) was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author, who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge at the time of his death.

Stephen Hawking: Master of the Universe

Stephen Hawking: Master of the Universe is a documentary television series produced by the television broadcaster Channel 5.

Stephen Jay Gould

Stephen Jay Gould (September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002) was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science.

Stephen P. Maran

* Stephen P. Maran is an American astronomer and popularizer who is known for his books, articles, and popular lectures for the general public, including Astronomy For Dummies.

Stephen Snobelen

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Steve Jones (biologist)

(John) Stephen Jones (born 24 March 1944) is a Welsh geneticist and from 1995 to 1999 and 2008 to June 2010 was Head of the Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment at University College London.

Steven Johnson (author)

Steven Berlin Johnson (born June 6, 1968) is an American popular science author and media theorist.

Steven Pinker

Steven Arthur Pinker (born September 18, 1954) is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and popular science author.

Steven Rose

Steven Peter Russell Rose (born 4 July 1938) is an English neuroscientist, author, and social commentator.

Street Genius

Street Genius (formerly known as None of the Above) is a popular science TV series that airs on National Geographic Channel.

Superconducting Super Collider

The Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) (also nicknamed the Desertron) was a particle accelerator complex under construction in the vicinity of Waxahachie, Texas.

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies is a 2014 book by the Swedish philosopher Nick Bostrom from the University of Oxford.

Superman Returns

Superman Returns is a 2006 American superhero film directed and produced by Bryan Singer.

Supervolcano

A supervolcano is a large volcano that has had an eruption of magnitude 8, which is the largest value on the Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI).

Surendra Verma (science writer)

Surendra Verma (born 1942) is an Indian-Australian journalist and writer of science books for a popular audience.

Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield

Susan Adele Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield (born 1 October 1950) is a British scientist, writer, broadcaster, and member of the House of Lords.

Syfy

Syfy (formerly Sci-Fi Channel and Sci Fi) is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by the NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment Group division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

Tal Rabin

Tal Rabin (Hebrew: טל רבין, born 1962) is a computer scientist, head of the cryptography research group at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center.

Tamil Nadu Science Forum

Tamil Nadu Science Forum is a people's movement (a registered society) committed to science popularization and education.

Technologist (magazine)

Technologist is a European popular science magazine published by Eurotech Universities since June 2014.

Tekhnika Molodezhi

Tekhnika Molodezhi (Техника — молодёжи, "Technology for the Youth") is a Soviet, and eventually Russian popular science magazine which has been published monthly since 1933.

Ten Technologies to Fix Energy and Climate

Ten Technologies to Fix Energy and Climate (second edition, 2009) or Ten Technologies to Save the Planet (first edition, 2008) is a popular science book by Chris Goodall first published in 2008 and re-issued in 2009 by Profile Books.

Tessy María López Goerne

Tessy María López Goerne (born October 22, 1961) is a Mexican solid-state chemist, professor, researcher, academic, and popular science communicator.

The Age of Wonder

The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science is a 2008 popular science book about the history of science written by Richard Holmes.

The Ambidextrous Universe

The Ambidextrous Universe is a popular science book by Martin Gardner, covering aspects of symmetry and asymmetry in human culture, science and the wider universe.

The Ancestor's Tale

The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life is a 2004 popular science book by Richard Dawkins, with contributions from Dawkins' research assistant Yan Wong.

The Beginning of Infinity

The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations that Transform the World is a popular science book by the physicist David Deutsch first published in 2011.

The Best American Science and Nature Writing

The Best American Science and Nature Writing is a yearly anthology of popular science magazine articles published in the United States.

The Best American Science Writing

The Best American Science Writing is a yearly anthology of popular science articles published in the United States, which commenced publication in 2000.

The Black Hole War

Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics is a 2008 popular science book by American theoretical physicist Leonard Susskind.

The Dancing Wu Li Masters

The Dancing Wu Li Masters is a 1979 book by Gary Zukav, a popular science work exploring modern physics, and quantum phenomena in particular.

The Edge of the Unknown

The Edge of the Unknown: 101 Things You Don't Know about Science and No One Else Does Either is a popular science book written by American physicist James Trefil.

The End of Time (book)

The End of Time: The Next Revolution in Our Understanding of the Universe, also sold with the alternate subtitle The Next Revolution in Physics, is a 1999 popular science book in which the author Julian Barbour argues that time exists merely as an illusion.

The English Mechanic and World of Science

The English Mechanic and World of Science was a popular-science magazine, published weekly from 1865 to 1926, generally consisting of 24 pages.

The Fifth Essence

The Fifth Essence: The Search for the Dark Matter in the Universe is the debut book by the American physicist Lawrence M. Krauss, published in 1989.

The Five Ages of the Universe

The Five Ages of the Universe is a popular science book written by Professor Fred Adams and Professor Gregory P. Laughlin about the future of an expanding universe first published in 1999.

The Future of the Mind

The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind is a popular science book by the futurist and physicist Michio Kaku.

The God Particle (book)

The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question? is a 1993 popular science book by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon M. Lederman and science writer Dick Teresi.

The Grand Design (book)

The Grand Design is a popular-science book written by physicists Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow and published by Bantam Books in 2010.

The Helix (magazine)

The Helix was a bi-monthly teen science magazine published by CSIRO Publishing, as the young-adult bi-monthly magazine of the Double Helix Science Club.

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood is a book by science history writer James Gleick published in March 2011 which covers the genesis of our current information age.

The Language of the Genes

The Language of the Genes (HarperCollins) is a popular science book by Steve Jones about genetics and evolution.

The Large, the Small and the Human Mind

The Large, the Small, and the Human Mind is a popular science book by British theoretical physicist Roger Penrose.

The Man Who Would Be Queen

The Man Who Would Be Queen: The Science of Gender-Bending and Transsexualism is a 2003 book by the psychologist J. Michael Bailey, published by Joseph Henry Press.

The Master Algorithm

The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World is a book by Pedro Domingos released in 2015.

The Meme Machine

The Meme Machine (2000) is a popular science book by psychologist Susan Blackmore on the subject of memes.

The Mysterious Universe

The Mysterious Universe is a popular science book by the British astrophysicist Sir James Jeans, first published in 1930 by the Cambridge University Press.

The Naked Woman

The Naked Woman: A Study of the Female Body (2004) is a book by zoologist Desmond Morris.

The Organized Mind

The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload is a bestselling popular science book written by the McGill University neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin, PhD, and first published by Dutton Penguin in the United States and Canada in 2014.

The Origins of Virtue

The Origins of Virtue is a 1996 popular science book by Matt Ridley, which has been recognised as a classic in its field.

The Rational Optimist

The Rational Optimist is a 2010 popular science book by Matt Ridley, author of The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature.

The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature is a popular science book by Matt Ridley exploring the evolutionary psychology of sexual selection.

The Science of Star Wars (book)

The Science of Star Wars is a nonfiction popular science book written by former NASA astrophysicist Jeanne Cavelos first published on April 15, 1999 by St. Martin's Press.

The Territorial Imperative

The Territorial Imperative: A Personal Inquiry Into the Animal Origins of Property and Nations is a 1966 nonfiction book by American writer Robert Ardrey.

The Theoretical Minimum

The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics is a popular science book by Leonard Susskind and George Hrabovsky.

The World in Six Songs

The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature is a popular science book written by the McGill University neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin, and first published by Dutton Penguin in the U.S. and Canada in 2008, and updated and released in paperback by Plume in 2009, and translated into six languages.

The World Until Yesterday

The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? is a 2012 popular science book by American intellectual Jared Diamond.

This Is Your Brain on Drugs

This Is Your Brain on Drugs was a large-scale US anti-narcotics campaign by Partnership for a Drug-Free America (PDFA) launched in 1987, that used three televised public service announcements (PSAs) and a related poster campaign.

This Is Your Brain on Music

This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession is a popular science book written by the McGill University neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin, and first published by Dutton Penguin in the U.S. and Canada in 2006, and updated and released in paperback by Plume/Penguin in 2007.

Thomas Hager

Thomas Hager is an American author of popular science and narrative nonfiction.

Tiberius Cornelis Winkler

Tiberius Cornelis Winkler (May 28, 1822 – April 4, 1897) was a Dutch anatomist, zoologist and natural historian, and the second curator of geology, paleontology and mineralogy at Teylers Museum in Haarlem.

Tiede

Tiede (Finnish for "science") is a Finnish popular science magazine published monthly in Helsinki, Finland.

Tim Shaw (presenter)

Tim Shaw (born 9 June 1974 in Sheffield, Yorkshire) is a British radio host, TV presenter and engineer.

Time Warp (TV series)

Time Warp is a popular science-themed television program produced for the Discovery Channel in the United States, in which Jeff Lieberman, an MIT scientist, teacher, and artist, along with high speed camera expert Matt Kearney, use their high speed camera to examine everyday occurrences and singular talents.

Tollak B. Sirnes

Tollak Bakke Sirnes (17 October 1922 – 15 October 2009) was a Norwegian physician, psychiatrist and pharmacologist.

Tomorrowland (book)

Tomorrowland: Our Journey from Science Fiction to Science Fact is a 2015 non-fiction book by science journalist Steven Kotler and published by Amazon Publishing.

Tony Rothman

Tony Rothman (born 1953) is an American theoretical physicist, academic and writer.

Tor Nørretranders

Tor Nørretranders (born June 20, 1955) is a Danish author of popular science.

Tougaloo College

Tougaloo College is a private, co-educational, historically black, liberal arts institution of higher education founded in 1869, in Madison County, north of Jackson, Mississippi, United States.

Tree: A Life Story

Tree: A Life Story (or Tree: A Biography in Australia) is a Canadian non-fiction book written by David Suzuki and Wayne Grady, and illustrated by Robert Bateman.

UA:First

UA:Pershyi (UA:Перший, tr.: UA:Pershyi, IPA: uɐ:pɛrʃɪj) is the national television channel in Ukraine, operated by the National Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine.

Understanding Physics

Understanding Physics (1966) is a popular science book written by Isaac Asimov (1920-1992).

Universe Today

Universe Today (UT) is a popular North American-based non-commercial space and astronomy news website.

Unscientific America

Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future is a nonfiction book by Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum.

V.B.Z.

V.B.Z. d.o.o. is a Croatian publishing company including bookstores and online sale.

Vaclav Ourednik

Vaclav Ourednik, PhD (* June 27, 1960 in Prague) is a Swiss natural scientist of Czech origin.

Vasiona

Vasiona (Васиона - Universe) is a magazine for popularization of astronomy published by the Astronomical Society Ruđer Bošković.

Věra Nosková

Věra Nosková (born April 9, 1947, Hroznětín) is a Czech writer, journalist and promoter of science and critical thinking.

Victor J. Stenger

Victor John Stenger (January 29, 1935 – August 25, 2014) was an American particle physicist, philosopher, author, and religious skeptic.

Vincent Sheu

Vincent Sheu (born October 1, 1990) is an Asian-American speedcuber or Rubik's Cube solver from Saratoga, California known for organizing international Rubik’s Cube competitions and setting world records in both the Fewest Moves Competition and the 2x2x2 single solve.

Virginia Heffernan

Virginia Heffernan (born August 8, 1969) is an American journalist and cultural critic.

Visions (book)

Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century is a popular science book by Michio Kaku first published in 1998.

Vitek Tracz

Vitek Tracz (born 31 May 1940) is a London-based entrepreneur who has been involved in science publishing, pharmaceutical information and mobile phone-based navigation.

Vladimir Paar

Vladimir Paar (born 1942) is a Croatian physicist and university professor.

Vladimir Suteev

Vladimir Grigorevich Suteev (Влади́мир Григо́рьевич Суте́ев) (5 July 1903 — 10 March 1993) was a Russian author, artist and animator who primarily wrote stories for children.

Vokrug sveta

Vokrug sveta (Вокруг света, literally: "Around the World") is a Russian geographic magazine.

Volodymyr Biletskyy

Volodymyr Stefanovych Biletskyy (Володимир Стефанович Білецький; born 1950 in Ukraine) is a Ukrainian mining engineer, D.Sc.

Wagar High School

Wagar High School was a high school at 5785 Parkhaven Avenue in Côte Saint-Luc, Quebec, Canada.

Wallace Arthur

Wallace Arthur is an evolutionary biologist and science writer.

Walter Robert Fuchs

Walter Robert Fuchs (March 18, 1937 in Princeton – 21 July, 1976 in Munich) was an American-German science communicator and science popularizer.

Welcome to the Universe

Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour is a popular science book by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott, based on an introductory astrophysics course they co-taught at Princeton University.

Werner Braunbeck

Werner Braunbeck (German: Werner Braunbek; 8 January 1901 – 9 February 1977) was a German physicist.

What a Plant Knows

What a Plant Knows is a 2012 popular science book discussing the sensory system of plants.

Wiedza Powszechna

Wiedza Powszechna (literally "Common Knowledge") is a publishing house in Poland.

Wil Roebroeks

Wil Roebroeks is the professor of Palaeolithic Archaeology at Leiden University in the Netherlands.

Wilhelm Bugge

Frederik Wilhelm Klumpp Bugge (20 May 1838 – 7 April 1896) was a Norwegian theologian and politician for the Conservative Party.

William Baird (physician)

William Baird (Eccles, Berwickshire, 11 January 1803 – 27 January 1872) was a Scottish physician and zoologist best known for his 1850 work, The Natural History of the British Entomostraca.

William Beebe

William Beebe (born Charles William Beebe; July 29, 1877 – June 4, 1962) was an American naturalist, ornithologist, marine biologist, entomologist, explorer, and author.

Wim De Smet

Wim De Smet (Antwerp, October 19, 1932 – Brasschaat, March 10, 2012) was a Flemish zoologist, specialized in marine mammals, and an esperantist.

Wittgenstein's Beetle and Other Classic Thought Experiments

Wittgenstein's Beetle is a book by Martin Cohen, perhaps better known for his popular introductions to philosophy, such as 101 Philosophy Problems.

Women in science

Women have made significant contributions to science from the earliest times.

Wonder en is gheen Wonder

Wonder en is gheen Wonder (Mystery is no Mystery) is a popular science magazine of the Flemish skeptical association SKEPP.

Wonders of Life (book)

Wonders of Life: Exploring the Most Extraordinary Phenomenon in the Universe is a 2013 book by the theoretical physicists Brian Cox and Andrew Cohen.

Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy

The Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy is a German research institution that explores and develops models, strategies and instruments to support sustainable development at local, national and international level.

Yakov Lidski

Yakov Lidski (יעקב לידסקי; 1889 in Slonim, Grodno Governorate, Russia – June 1, 1921 in Warsaw, Poland) was a Warsaw-based Jewish bookseller and publisher, pioneer of Yiddish literature publishing.

Yakov Perelman

Yakov Isidorovich Perelman (Яков Исидорович Перельман; December 4, 1882 – March 16, 1942) was a Russian and Soviet science writer and author of many popular science books, including Physics Can Be Fun and Mathematics Can Be Fun (both translated from Russian into English).

Yat

Yat or jat (Ѣ ѣ; italics: Ѣ ѣ) is the thirty-second letter of the old Cyrillic alphabet, as well as the name of the sound it represented.

Yeremey Parnov

Yeremey Iudovich Parnov (Еремей Иудович Парнов; 20 October 1935 – 18 March 2009) was a Soviet and Jewish Russian writer and publicist.

You're Only Human (Second Wind)

"You're Only Human (Second Wind)" is a song written in 1985 and performed by Billy Joel.

Yuri Merkulov

Yuri Alexandrovich Merkulov (Юрий Александрович Меркулов; — 13 February 1979) was a Soviet artist, animation and film director, conservator-restorer, inventor, film theorist and actor.

Zagreb Observatory

The Zagreb Astronomical Observatory (Zvjezdarnica Zagreb) is the astronomical observatory located in Zagreb, the Croatian capital, and founded in 1903.

Zdeněk Liška

Zdeněk Liška (16 March 1922 – 13 August 1983) was a Czech composer who produced a large number of film scores across a prolific career that started in the 1950s.

Znanost.org

Society znanost.org is a NGO operating mainly in Croatia.

1905 in science

The year 1905 in science and technology involved some significant events, particularly in physics, listed below.

1922 in Italy

Events from the year 1922 in Italy.

1947 in science

The year 1947 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

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References

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