Tell Them a Story

In his commencement address to Caltech’s class of 2008 yesterday, science journalist Robert Krulwich describes the importance of communicating science–and telling a story
“Science stories don’t always win, but at the very least, it should be a tug of war. And if you tell them right, they have the power to change minds,” he said.
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Piecing a Virus Together

“A purely mathematical theory suggests why a wide variety of virus families construct their genome-storing shells out of a mosaic of trapezoids.” Read more.
(In Physical Review Focus)