Which European country has the highest number of women with a degree in science subjects? Do citizens put more trust in scientists or in journalists? Which technological object do europeans consider more indispensable? How large is the readership of science magazines? The 2005 Science in Society Facts and Figures contains data and information to help understand the…
Almost 80 % of Italians citizens support the use of staminal embryo cells for research on new therapies. More than on third are favourable without restrictions, while another 44% would agree on the condition that research be carried out on embryos otherwise set to destroyed and 21% are totally against. Assisted reproduction techniques are also…
Italians’ greatest fear is that the world will run out of drinking water. Out of a number of potential dangers connected to major phenomena, one out of three Italians (31,6%) is worried about the risk of water resource exhaustion more than about other calamities like epidemics, nuclear incidents and overpopulation. Over the last decades, new…
Intervention at the Session: Science, Society and the Lisbon Strategy Science in Society Forum, Brussels, 10th March Nuclear power, GMOs, stem cells: the more science advances, the more society seems to make resistance. We often say and hear that this vision has been surpassed by increasingly sophisticated analyses of the relationships between research and the…