Article by Federico Neresini, Kostas Dimopoulos, Monika Kallfass, and Hans Peter Peters Science Communication, Jun 2009; vol. 30: pp. 506 – 533. The results from a cross-national study of visits by the public to four large physics research centres in Europe focus on short-term learning and motivational effects produced by such visits. The findings are…
Nuclear energy, stem cell technology, GMOs: the more science advances, the more society seems to resist. But are we really watching a death struggle between opposing forces, as so many would have it? Can today’s complex technical policy decisions coincide with the needs of a participatory democracy? Are the two sides even equipped to talk…
In the last years Italians’ attitudes have increasingly shifted in favour of investments in nuclear power. From 2003 to today, supporters of this investment have risen from just over 22% to almost 42%; during the same time period the opposites have decreased from 56% to 39% approximately (view the table and the bar graph). Therefore,…