Scientific Knowledge

By Alberto Brodesco Lost in science Before parachuting on the Island, Daniel Faraday was a professor of physics at Oxford. As it often happens in Lost, the name of the character alludes to a philosophical or scientific personality belonging to the past (including Locke, Rousseau, Hume, Rutherford and Minkowski), in this case to Michael Faraday (1791-1867), a leading scholar of electromagnetism

UNESCO’s Division for Science & Its Popularisation propagated science popularisation as a foundation for modern democracies all around the world By Kristian H. Nielsen After Second World War, expectations for science and science popularisation were high. Scientists such as Julian Huxley and Joseph Needham propounded the view that science and international scientific collaboration would

By Diana Garrisi Rarely discussed but very common, pressure injuries, also known as bedsores, affect millions of people around the world every year. The practice of wound care dates back to ancient times, when mud and clay were used to make plasters. Yet, the sheer number of people suffering from pressure injuries worldwide today shows that much more needs to be done to raise public awareness

By Tim Boon At 21:25 on 11th December 1962 the BBC broadcast The Prizewinners, a television programme about that year’s Nobel laureates in medicine or physiology (Francis Crick, James Watson and Maurice Wilkins for DNA) and chemistry (Max Perutz and John Kendrew for the elucidation of protein structures). The programme, broadcast the day after the ceremony, marked a key stage in the

By Ayumi Koso and Euan McKay When you visit a country for the first time you often suddenly become aware that the norms and values you bring with you are not necessarily shared with that society. So what happens when science and journalism interact across socio-cultural or language boundaries? Science communication literature suggests that the relationship between science and journalism has

by Ayelet Baram-Tsabari and Elad Segev Most people turn to the internet, and specifically to Google, for their scientific information needs. But why would they need scientific information in the first place? What types of information are they looking for? One reason would be to follow up on news coverage of a natural disaster, a celebrity illness, an epidemic or prominent scientific events.