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popular science

interpretation of science intended for a general audience
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Summary

popular science is a genre[1]. It draws 3,332 Wikipedia views per month (genre category, ranking #43 of 119).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: non-fiction[3], science communication[4], service[5], popularisation[6]
  • Said to be the same as: science outreach[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Popular science[8]
  • Stack Exchange tag: https://physics.stackexchange.com/tags/popular-science[9]
  • Different from: popular work[10]
  • Practiced by: science communicator[11]

Why It Matters

popular science has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] It is known by 102 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

Related Entities

A Brief History of Time Arthur C. Clarke Carl Sagan Cosmos: A Personal Voyage David Attenborough Federico Neri Gustav Mistrík Joel Gabàs Masip Kimberly K. Arcand Krzysztof Krzywdzinski Margaret Atwood Marko Perko Marshall Brain Martin Gardner Martin Rota Mary Somerville Oswaldo Cruz House Scientific American Sneed B. Collard III Sociedade Brasileira de Teoria e História da Historiografia Sudan

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 4d ago · Infovarius · 2026-10-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Commons category → —
    Sitelink count → 48
    Subclass of → non-fiction, science communication, service +1
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'ast', 'az', 'be', 'bn', 'ca', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'eo', 'es',
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Commons category: Popular science, Moving to Q141714260"
  2. 6d ago · Arpyia · 2026-10-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'ast', 'az', 'be', 'bn', 'ca', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'eo', 'es',
    Subclass of → non-fiction, science communication, service +1
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Subclass of: popularisation"
  3. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0257613-popularizace-vedy
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0257613-popularizace-vedy, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259499|batch #259499]]"
  4. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Said to be the same as → science outreach
    Instance of → genre
    Subclass of → non-fiction, science communication, service +1
    Aliases → —
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-single-property-update:1||2 */ Yso id, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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