Elis find science writing
Does the word quasar frighten you? Does ribozyme sound like the name of some foreign creature from a low-budget horror film? Does the medulla oblongata strike you as something you’d find sticking to the bottom of your shoe rather than inside your body?
Yalies with careers in science writing are bringing these foreign terms — and the questions driving scientific research — to the common reader, at a time when breaking into the field is growing more difficult, professionals said.
“Science writing really took off in the ’70s and ’80s when newspapers started up special science...
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