The National Science Communication Institute (nSCI) is a 501c3 tax-exempt nonprofit charity. Our mission is to help improve science collaboration, discovery, education and public policy by reforming the communication culture inside science. Science does a poor job of communicating internally. Scientists write mostly for journals that very few people ever read, researchers don’t share their data often enough, science efforts don’t spend money on coordinated public relations efforts, and more. The outcome of this dysfunction is that science doesn’t discover as much as it might otherwise be able to given better communications tools and practices, and opportunities for discovery are being lost. This is true in every field from medical research to alternative energy research to pure science.  STEM education is also a continual challenge, at least in part due to these communications issues, and the public’s understanding of science is anemic, particularly with regard to hot-button public policy issues like climate change and evolution.

Science 2.0 was created in 2006 to modernize science communication, publishing, collaboration and public participation. World-class scientists write articles and discuss issues without being filtered by size or editorial limitations, where there are no political or cultural agendas, and the audience can read great science directly from the sources and maybe learn some new things.