The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) communicates its science and engineering information to data users in a very fluid ...

Scientists are crucial voices in the public debate about wicked problems—societal-scale, high-stakes issues with no clear solutions, like pandemics and artificial intelligence. In the past, experts ...

Effective communication of science and technology helps people make sense of complex ideas, closes knowledge gaps, and stimulates the imagination and curiosity that drive innovation. “The ability to ...

Although the public has a generally positive attitude toward science and scientists, specific contentious issues with a science component often become controversial. As noted in Chapter 1, some of ...

Scientists, along with the general public, have been amazed at the rapid advancements and public explosion of Large Language Model (LLM)-based AI tools over the past year. Many scientists have also ...

Authoritative, intelligent, responsible, serious—if you were asked to describe the general figure of a scientist, you would probably use adjectives like these. However, "funny" would likely not be the ...

As artificial intelligence (AI) speeds up and simplifies technical tasks, the ability to think creatively and communicate visually will be the competitive edge that sets the next generation of data ...