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Date of publication Sep 21, 2003 Category: Article
Characters in search of Majorana
Through the years, Majorana's life - and his mysterious disappearance in particular - inspired manifold representations. The wide range of links to science, philosophy and literature have allowed deep reflections crossing the borders of genre: from theatre to fiction, from essays to novels and cartoons. Reconstructing the character of Majorana by thinking back to all the interpretations he has been given allows us to place him in a wider and more organic context, which goes beyond the functional aspects of fiction. In this wider prospective, we can clearly see why the still unresolved Majorana case has aroused the interest of so many diverse authors.
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Date of publication Sep 21, 2003 Category: Article
Public perception of science: a preliminary analysis and interpretation of the questionnaire data applied in the city of Campinas, Brazil
This article will discuss and comment some of the results obtained by the application of the questionnaire "Public perception of Science and Technology". The questionnaire is a translated and adapted Portuguese version from the original in
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Date of publication Sep 21, 2003 Category: Focus
Invisible Hand(s): Quality Assurance in the Age of Author Self-Archiving
There are forces, factors, and influences other than pending classical peer review that assure the quality of scholarship before formal publication.
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Date of publication Sep 21, 2003 Category: Focus
Peer review in high-energy physics: a return to the origins?
I still remember very clearly my first encounter with peer review: I was a Ph. D. student in physics and I had written my first paper, submitted it to a journal and - after what seemed to me a very long time - received a reply with the request for few changes and corrections I was supposed to include in my paper before it could be considered for publication. These very simple steps: the writing up of some original research results in a paper, its submission to a journal and the process of the work being read and judged by someone reputed to be an expert in the field is what we call peer review - the judging of scientific work by your peers - and it is an essential part of what science is. No scientific achievement can be considered as such until has been recognized by the community at large and such a recognition mainly comes from the peer review process. The presence of this check has arguably helped and fostered the constant and cumulative growth of science.
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Date of publication Sep 21, 2003 Category: Editorial
Political censorship of science
On June, the 23rd of last year, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published its Draft Report on the Environment, a report on environmental quality. The EPA is an autonomous federal agency known for its reliability on environmental studies and safeguards. Its Draft Report is considered by Science, the journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the nation's most scientifically reliable analysis on environmental quality.
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Date of publication Sep 21, 2003 Category: Commentary
Communication between doctor and patient in the information society
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Date of publication Jun 21, 2003 Category: Editorial
The magic of the media
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 much worse. And do not ask the press, the radio and television to put their magical mentality aside: the media are condemned to it. It is not just a matter of what the audience wants. It is the cause-effect relations the media constantly have to establish that have per se something "magic".
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Date of publication Jun 21, 2003 Category: Article
Italian science in space: technical attempts at communicating
This study analyses the image of Italian space activities given by national dailies in the period from February 2001 to July 2002, in order to understand Italians' view of "Italy in space". It also considers the role that space scientific research can play in the communication strategies of Italian space activities in the upcoming years and the possible ways to improve its image through mass media.
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Date of publication Jun 21, 2003 Category: Commentary
Television fiction as a tool for scientific controversies
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