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Enter for a chance to have your story published on The Scientist’s website! 

Enter our second annual writing contest. The winners’ stories will be published on The Scientist’s website! 

Almost every scientific presentation uses a slide deck, but little time is spent learning how to make or improve them. 

Posters need to incorporate scientific communication and graphic design principles to reach their full potential.

Effective scientific figures incorporate artistic principles, using color, layout, and other visual elements to help clarify the message.

Small details—including alignment, layout arrangement, legibility, and visual consistency—are important when designing and creating scientific figures. 

Planning and designing figures—organizing, arranging, and visualizing data—is an important skill for scientists.

A scientist’s day-to-day routine in the laboratory provides many opportunities for developing their scientific communication skills.

Writing for a non-scientific audience uses many of the same skills as writing for other scientists, but uses a bit more of an author’s personal flair.

All studies have imperfections, but how to present them without diminishing the value of the work can be tricky.

Effective results sections need to be much more than a list of data points given without context. 

The Scientist is excited to announce the finalists of our inaugural science writing contest and to give readers a chance to vote for their favorite story.

A key protein that detects changes in plasma membrane curvature guides immune-like cells through environmental obstacles.

Neuroscientists studying prairie voles discovered that dopamine in the brain gushes when the animals are with their life partners and that loss of a partner erased this neurochemical signature.

The marmot social microbiome is unlike that of other mammals, adding a new perspective to wildlife conservation efforts.

The innate genetic program that controls migratory behavior in birds is shrouded in mystery, but scientists are closer to understanding how genetic variation influences their routes between Europe and Africa.

With its complete genome sequenced, one of the world’s largest microbes harbors unique energy processes that highlight its relation to its symbiotic host, the surgeonfish.

Scientists used a commercial year-long cheddar making process to show how various bacterial communities interact and contribute to the distinct flavor of cheddar.

A strong narrative is as integral a part of science writing as it is for any other form of communication.