Medicines in the environment. Implications and perspectives
Pharmaceutical medicines, and in particular antibiotics, are useful tools to treat and prevent human and animal diseases. However, after their administration a significant fraction of the drug is not retained by the body mass, but is excreted in urine and faeces (1). In addition, recent surveys report that people, in the everyday practice, do not…
2013 Science in Society Facts and Figures
The new edition of Observa’s Science and Society Facts and Figures, edited by Federico Neresini and Andrea Lorenzet, edited by Il Mulino publishing house, will be published on February 2013. See the last editions.
Observa goes to New Zealand
A Symposium entitled: Disasters – communicating in the crisis and aftermath will be held in Christchurch, New Zealand, on 21-23 February 2013. Among the speakers, Massimiano Bucchi and Giuseppe Pellegrini. For more info about the symposium, see the news.
Youngsters’ interest in science
The book Participation, Retention and Gender Equity in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Higher Education, edited by Ellen K. Henriksen, Justin Dillon and Jim Ryder, will be published by Springer in 2013. The book collects results from European project IRIS and contains an essay by Giuseppe Pellegrini and Chiara Segafredo. IRIS is the acronym for…
“GLOBULANDIA” – An Adventure in Red
Science is difficult to explain. Its terms are complicated and distracting. These are just a few of the many platitudes that haunt science to these days. “Globulandia”, an interactive, interdisciplinary exhibit is designed to settle the record straight. Promoted by Italy’s Centro Nazionale Sangue[1] in collaboration with Rete Città Sane- WHO and under the scientific…