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editorial University in the 21st Century -
21/06/2007
The Scientific Communications Act of 2007 (HR 1453) was introduced by the US House of Representatives on 9th March. The National Science Foundation, an ...
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editorial Patterns for dialogue: under construction -
21/03/2007
NASA has decided to cut by 50% the next two-year budget for the Astrobiology Institute (NAI), and for all of the studies on life in outer space. This ...
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editorial Systematically sceptical -
21/12/2006
One can no longer rely on the presumption that scientists comply with the Mertonian value of disinterest and assume that they always tell the truth when ...
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editorial The world, out there -
21/09/2006
The Royal Society published in late June a report entitled «Science Communication. Survey of factors affecting science communication by scientists and ...
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editorial No reserved communication lanes for high energy -
21/06/2006
The American particle physics community is in jeopardy and may end up drowning in a boundless sea trying to grasp at non-existing funds, dragging US physics ...
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editorial New scandals – time to rethink the rules? -
21/03/2006
The scandal of the “biotechnology evangelist” erupted in Korea at the beginning of the new year: a commission from Seoul National University announced that ...
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editorial Pandemic: how to avoid panic? -
21/12/2005
The tsunami that took place on 26th December 2004 in the Indian Ocean and hurricane Katrina, that last August struck the Mexican Gulf, are two recent ...
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editorial Amphibious Environments in Science Communication -
21/09/2005
The historian Marshall Berman wrote that living in modern times means "to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, ...
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editorial Ratzinger and science (communication) -
21/06/2005
The death of Pope John Paul II, the "Polish pope", in Rome and the subsequent election of Benedict XVI, the "German pope", have been two ...
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editorial The Tsunami challenge -
21/03/2005
Many lives could have been saved on 26 December 2004, when the tsunami unleashed by an earthquake of magnitude 9.0 off the coast of the Indonesian island ...
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editorial Is Darwin on the cross? -
21/12/2004
The question was raised in the 4th November copy of The New York Times when it entitled the editorial of Garry Wills (political and cultural historian), ...
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editorial In the name of God, and of Bush, and of the market -
21/09/2004
In the name of God is the heading chosen by some researchers from a Middle Eastern country for their posters in an international conference on chemistry ...
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editorial Libertà vo cercando -
21/06/2004
Free information works. In the sense that Open Access Journals, scientific journals which can be accessed at no cost, thereby guaranteeing free access to ...
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editorial Science and the international public opinion -
21/03/2004
On 16 January 2004, the United Nations Secretary-General and Nobel Peace Prize winner Kofi Annan launched a Global Media Aids Initiative, with the aim of ...
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editorial The Scanzano lesson -
21/12/2003
The incident of Scanzano Jonico, in Italy's Basilicata region, has been something more than a lesson for those who handle the relationships between science ...
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editorial Political censorship of science -
21/09/2003
On June, the 23rd of last year, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published its Draft Report on the Environment, a report on environmental ...
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editorial The magic of the media -
21/06/2003
A word of warning for scientists: don't appear on talk-shows. Not only would you probably run into a magician, you might even be mistaken for one, which is ...
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editorial Understanding Publics of Science -
21/03/2003
In recent weeks, Britain's Better Regulation Task Force report on scientific research regulation asked the Government to evaluate the risks associated with ...
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editorial When science hits the headlines... -
21/09/2002
A survey has been recently carried out for the first time in Italy concerning science communication through the media and the result has been that science ...
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editorial Science, Socrates and the media -
21/06/2002
There is no use denying it: whenever a scientist gets a piece of news in a newspaper or on television concerning his own field of research, eight times out ...
