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navigation, search  If a book or a TV show is about science, but
it's made so it's easy for everyone to understand, then it is
popular science. It has popular in its name because it's made
for the whole population, not just for scientists. Nature
documentaries (nature shows) are examples of popular science.
Popular science is non-fiction, so it is not the same as science
fiction.  Popular science is also not the same as Science
journalism. Science journalism is what journalists write to
report the newest theories and discoveries made in science, but
popular science is not always about what is newest.  Some famous
people who make popular science are Isaac Asimov, Jared Diamond,
Stephen Hawking, Bill Nye, and Carl Sagan.[source?]  Popular
science and scientific literature[change | edit source]  When
scientists write about their work, first they write books and
periodicals meant for the same kind of scientists to read--
scientific literature. The p