Scientific Knowledge

By Noah Weeth Feinstein, Rainer Bromme, Sarit Barzilai, and Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Public engagement with science is widely perceived to be a source of many benefits to society, including benefits to the everyday decision making of its citizens, the quality of its democratic discourse, and the vitality of its scientific research institutions. Examples for such benefits would be the adherence

By Paige Jarreau Ph.D In general, U.S. adults trust scientists. Scientists’ credibility or trustworthiness ratings have been remarkably stable over time. Confidence in leaders of the scientific community is roughly the same or higher than it was in the 1970s according to Pew data. While U.S. adults may have very different attitudes on a variety of scientific issues than scientists do,

We are sad to announce that Angela Cassidy is stepping down as book review editor after almost 9 years at the helm. We'll soon be announcing the new book review editor but in the meantime we would like to sincerely thank Angela for her huge contribution to Public Understanding of Science. We'll miss working with you on book reviews and wish you all the best. Books to be reviewed can be

By Rony Armon Last week, I attended the annual lecture of the School of Communication, Education and Society at King’s College London, where Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland talked on the highly timely topic of “Post-truth, lies and fake news.” While the talk was stimulating, it led me to think that more caution is needed in defending science as truth. As a political reporter,

The PRINTEGER European Conference on Research Integrity: Why Research Integrity Matters to You will take place in Bonn, Germany, on February 05-07, 2018 The aim of the conference is to promote a culture in which integrity is part and parcel of what it means to do excellent research. It will focus on: integrity challenges in the science system; research integrity and the role of media;

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,

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