There are very interesting magazines that publish scientific literature, better known as “Popular Science”, intended for a general audience. The articles in these magazines are written by journalists of science who summarize, translate, and even digest, in an accessible language, peer-reviewed papers about recent scientific and technological advances to people who, while not involved directly in formal scientific activities, are interested in science, technology or both. The aim of these popular science publications goes beyond entertainment, but rather is to inform as well as to attract the interest of the readers, who might be even scientists from different disciplines, towards scientific activities, calling their attention to novelties, controversial, and even curious issues. An aspect that must not be overlooked in the writing of popular science is that writers of this genre must have a good understanding of science so that the relevance of the scientific, often original, reports is imprinted in the published material. The scientific sense of the magazine writer must be consistent with established knowledge; otherwise they could produce articles containing exaggeration, oversimplification or misunderstandings, especially on subjects that are targets of myths. It is also important to remember that these magazine writers are also readers of scientific literature in journals, and that papers that show plausible results presented in a very enthusiastic manner, but might not be supported by rigorous methods and analysis could mislead them. Journals, such as JMPEE, have a direct responsibility when taking the contributions of researchers working in science and technology to publish quality and pertinent papers that are a source of reliable scientific content for the writers of popular science.

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有一些非常有趣的杂志出版科学文献，更广为人知的是“大众科学”，面向一般受众。这些杂志上的文章是由科学记者撰写的，他们用一种易于理解的语言总结、翻译甚至消化同行评审的关于最近科学技术进步的论文，这些论文虽然不直接参与正式的科学活动，但对感兴趣的人有兴趣在科学，技术或两者兼而有之。这些科普出版物的目的不仅仅是娱乐，而是为了告知并吸引读者（甚至可能是来自不同学科的科学家）对科学活动的兴趣，引起他们对新奇、有争议甚至好奇的问题。科普写作中不可忽视的一个方面是，这一类型的作家必须对科学有很好的理解，以便科学报告的相关性，通常是原创的，在出版的材料中留下印记。杂志撰稿人的科学意识必须与既定知识相一致；否则，他们可能会发表包含夸大、过度简化或误解的文章，尤其是关于成为神话目标的主题。同样重要的是要记住，这些杂志作者也是期刊科学文献的读者，那些以非常热情的方式展示了看似合理的结果但可能没有严格方法和分析支持的论文可能会误导他们。期刊，如 JMPEE，