Do the public support the funding of medical research? What motivates people to seek information about medical research? What areas of medical research are they most interested in? What expectations do people have for future advances? Is the scientific process understood? How interesting is school science education? Are young people interested in a career in…
Whether the issue is genetically modified organisms, stem cells, or end-of-life situations, public debate appears to be constricted within a consolidated pattern. On the one hand there are the advocates of the unbridled development of technoscience; on the other those who call for restraints on science’s encroachment into fields that have traditionally been the prerogatives…
The idea that science is ‘in’ and therefore part of society, has gained widespread acceptance. Interactions between “science” and “society” (which have existed since the days of Galileo) have multiplied at different levels. They have also taken different forms which partly mask the deep and irreversible transformation that science as an institution is undergoing in…
The new edition of the volume edited by Observa – Science in Society thanks to the support of Compagnia San Paolo and published by Il Mulino Italy is the 32nd among OECD countries in terms of number of researchers and staff employed in R&D. The average age of scientists and engineers in our country remains…
The new edition of the 2010 Science in Society Facts and Figures, edited by Observa – Science in Society thanks to the support of Compagnia San Paolo and published by Il Mulino Research grows among investment priorities according to Italian citizens (from 16% to 23%), but critical judgements on its organisation remain widespread. The sensitivity…
What do comics and gardening have in common? What connects rock music and the philosophy of love? The design of everyday objects and the language of science? Science, Design, Gardening and Love: from April 16th to 19th, 2010 in the Palladian Villa Caldogno, near Vicenza, within the festival A Regola d’Arte. Rediscovering the pleasure of…
Among the various initiatives aimed at raising public attention around the theme of Global War it is worth mentioning those involving art, science, climate change and culture. Whereas in Italy it is hard to develop integrated and multi-disciplinary reasoning on these matters at an academic and political level, in Great Britain there is a willingness…