Data from Observa in primetime
Excellent results for the new series of the Tv science program SuperQuark. Data from the Science in Society Facts and Figures and the Science and Technology in Society Monitor have been presented in the “Science and Society” section of the program. SuperQuark has set a high audience, with an average of more than two million…
Observa website is renewed
Observa is pleased to introduce the new version of its website. Graphics and navigation are improved, but the internal organization of contents remains the same. The aim is to provide a website which is up-to-date on the latest technologies and increasingly rich of information and materials on the relationship between science and society. The website…
Scientists’ attitudes towards the media and the public
We present a preview of the paper which will be published in the Book of Papers of the XII International Public Communication of Science and Technology (PCST) Conference. Read the paper The paper outlines the results of the first exploratory survey on the attitudes of Italian researchers with regard to their interaction with the mass…
The 8th World Conference on “The Future of Science”
The Eighth World Conference on The Future of Science, entitled Nanoscience society, will take place in Venice, September 16-18, 2012. Some of the world’s most eminent scientists from various disciplines will gather together to present and discuss new findings from the nanoscience, one of the most exciting and rapidly-progressing areas of research. Among the speakers…
PCST 2012: the Book of Papers coming soon
The book collecting papers presented at the conference will be coming soon. It is published by Observa Science in Society and edited by Massimiano Bucchi and Brian Trench. In the meantime, it is still possible to refer to the Book of Abstracts and other conference documentation on the PCST website and the Observa webpage. Read…
Stem cells and Neurodegenerative diseases: Epistemological and Methodological problems
One of the most relevant changes in the way to approach research on neurodegenerative diseases is related to the discovery of the existence of stem cells in the adult nervous tissue. The scientific results and their recent chronological development are a logical consequence of one another. Spanish scientific contributions to this problem are relevant and…
“When Scientists Turn to the Public”
Readers of the journal Public Understanding of Science voted the article When Scientists Turn to the Public by Massimiano Bucchi, published in 1996, as one of the 15 most influential articles in the field.