1, explanatory: The purpose of writing popular science is to introduce scientific knowledge. If it is popular science, it is necessary to introduce scientific knowledge in the article;
2. uniqueness: a popular science article generally only explains a scientific phenomenon and introduces a scientific knowledge;
3. Popularization: Most of the knowledge introduced in popular science is universal, so it is generally required to explain it in simple terms with popular and interesting words.
Popular science articles, also known as popular science or popular science, refer to activities that make the public accept the knowledge of natural science and social science, promote the application of science and technology, advocate scientific methods, spread scientific ideas and carry forward scientific spirit by using various media in an easy-to-understand way. Popular science is a combination of social education.
From the perspective of sociology of science, the popularization of science is a universal social phenomenon, which inevitably has its own "growing point". The growing point of scientific popularization lies in the intersection of nature and human beings, science and society, that is to say, the interaction between natural science and human society has produced scientific popularization, and science and technology and society, as the "soil" of scientific popularization, have nurtured its growth.
Function of popular science: Popular science refers to revealing the objective laws of things, exploring the objective truth, scientifically and objectively popularizing scientific knowledge to the public, and playing the role of enlightenment.