popular science

collocation in English

meaningsofpopularandscience

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popular
adjective
uk
/ˈpɒp.jə.lər/us
/ˈpɑː.pjə.lɚ/
liked, enjoyed, or supported by ...
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science
noun
uk
/ˈsaɪ.əns/us
/ˈsaɪ.əns/
(knowledge from) the careful study of the structure and behaviour of the physical world, especially by watching, measuring, and doing experiments, and the development of theories to describe the results of ...
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(Definition ofpopularandsciencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The use ofpopularsciencearticles in teaching scientific literacy.
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Thispopularsciencebook is difficult to classify.
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This is instant mythology notpopularscience, it has no basis in any science.
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But that is only to be expected and not unreasonable in apopularsciencebook.
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This paper considers the use ofpopularsciencearticles in teaching scientific literacy.
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My feeling was of a book that could not figure out its target audience - a hybrid between apopularsciencebook and a technical tract, satisfying neither.
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This article also relates developments in scientific space research andpopularsciencefiction culture to corresponding uses of space and alien imagery in various forms of popular music.
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Like most of the other chapters, this one attempts to be a 'popularscience' work by presuming no knowledge of linguistics in general, or morphology in particular.
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Rousseau's reference to a pre-contractual state of nature fueled a "mystical" notion inpopularscience of sensationist intimacy with the "primitive" natural world.
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There was nothing particularly novel about the book either - in many respects it was similar in coverage to so manypopularscienceand first-year textbooks in astrobiology.
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Also in the home and partly outside it is the increasinglypopularscienceof do-it-yourself.
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It raises a number of questions which are certainly of interest to those who have participated in this newpopularscience.
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It would be exceedingly difficult to decide what films could be regarded as "recording scientific investigations or research," especially in these days ofpopularscience.
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All this is in just one issue of apopularsciencejournal.
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There are manypopularscienceaccounts of the discovery of extra-solar planets as well as those of gamma-ray bursts and their afterglows.
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He has authored and co-authored a number of papers in peer-reviewed international journals as well as articles onpopularscienceand other published material.
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Lally contributed articles topopularscienceprint magazines and online publications on the subjects of extraterrestrial intelligence searches, space exploration and other topics.
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