Job DescriptionScience writers at heart love learning and communicating ideas to others. Their writing may vary from the latest scientific breakthrough to explaining a law of physics that has been around for centuries. They write for a variety of publications from scientific journals to mainstream news outlets, and their audiences comprise of scientific professionals and the general public alike. They follow the general principles of journalists: use credible sources & gather information from a variety of sources. It doesn't matter if you are a trained scientist or someone interested in science but has no formal training; if you enjoy interviewing scientists and explaining scientific processes, this may be the right field for you!
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Ms. Kasha Patel
Currently working at NASA Earth Observatory, Kasha writes news articles and features about NASA Earth science research. While she enjoys uncovering interesting story angles in any satellite image or data set, she gravitates towards citizen science projects, auroras, and tracking diseases and natural hazards from space. Fun Fact!Science writers do not need to stick to only one field! While you may work under a field (e.g. space) you can write about correlations between space and many other topics.
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