On the 7th of July, Superquark, the most important Italian popular scientific tv programme, hosted by Piero Angela, presents the Observa Science in Society Observatory new issue on the Italians’ perception of the future. The Science in Society Observatory, an initiative of Observa in cooperation with TuttoScienzeTecnologia (a supplement of the newspaper “La Stampa”), Superquark,…
In the framework of the First European Science in Society Forum 2005,.six different events known as “mirror sites” took place in Europe. Among them, the Observa’s First Italian Forum on Science and Society and Mapping Controversies, organised by THE GALLERY OF RESEARCH|GALERIE DER FORSCHUNG in Vienna, which is presented here. Introduction Science is generally thought…
The Italians believe that physical exercise and a healthy diet are the most important factors in growing old well. They want scientific research to come up with new drugs and therapies, but only one in every two Italians thinks it right to prolong life beyond its natural span. Increasingly frequently, authoritative scientists claim that the…