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Mind the Lab: A new approach to boost science communication

Mind the Lab is a breakthrough initiative in bringing science to the general public, acting as a science teaser to attract people’s interest and boost traditional science communication activities. By Theo Anagnostopoulos Bringing science to the general public – the challenge Most science communication approaches and mediums (e.g. newspaper articles, magazines, public lectures, debates,

Visual thinking, doodles and the hand-drawn path through science

by Jacopo Sacquegno Science has always benefitted from the use of visualization. We can almost say that since the very beginnings of enquiring into nature in the 17th Century, producing visuals and images to describe phenomena and explain theoretical models has been intrinsic to science. Today, the evolution of advanced software tools allows researchers to generate a huge amount of visual