In Venice, in occasion of the World Science Day for Peace and Development, organized by UNESCO, Observa’s most recent publications will be presented, Women and Science 2010. Italy and the International Context and Science and New Generations (Scienza e nuove generazioni. I risultati dell’indagine internazionale ROSE) . Edited by Iulia Nechifor and Giuseppe Pellegrini, Women…
To be held 14 and 15 October at Palazzo Franchetti, the Venice headquarters of the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, is the third meeting of the IRIS Consortium – Interests and Recruitment in Science. IRIS involves five countries and is coordinated by the University of Oslo. Presented and discussed during the meeting will…
Several publications have sought to define the field of science communication and review current issues and recent research. But the status of science communication is uncertain in disciplinary terms. This commentary considers two dimensions of the status of discipline as they apply to science communication – the clarity with which the field is defined and…
What do Italians believe will be the most serious threats to health in the next few years? Have the recent alarms concerning viruses and pandemics significantly impacted on public opinion? According to data collected by Science in Society Monitor, the fear of epidemics caused by new viruses is still high (23.8% of interviewees considered them…
XENOME is a five-year research project started in 2006 under FP6 and funded by the European Commission. It brings together experts from several medical fields, immunologists, transplant surgeons, from biology, from the veterinary sciences, and also ethicists, lawyers, sociologists coming from European countries to improve and boost the sciences and technologies involved in xenotransplantation (XT).…