In the summer of 2020, wildfire smoke blanketed the city of Portland, Oregon, leading to a prolonged period of poor air quality and health concerns for residents. Subsequently, in 2021 the city experienced a heat wave with ...
Environment
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Educators in European science museums sometimes think rather differently about the definition of an "authentic" object. They think carefully about how they present those objects to teach visitors something or make them curious.
Education
Dec 5, 2023
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Researchers at UPF have analyzed the relationship between civil society organizations and the Spanish science and technology system. The study has been published in Public Understanding of Science and conducted by Carolina ...
Social Sciences
Nov 20, 2020
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There is insufficient evidence to support claims that the public has had enough of experts, according to academics at the University of Sheffield.
Social Sciences
Jun 3, 2019
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Read the catchy one-line statistics that circulate in the headlines and on social media and you'd be forgiven for thinking that public understanding of science is in a sorry state. A few months back, we heard that 80% of ...
Social Sciences
May 13, 2015
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There was a bit of talk over the last election cycle, expressed in the usual language of political left and right, about returning the pendulum to the "sensible centre".
Social Sciences
Nov 14, 2014
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More people are likely to believe scientific studies claiming that oil drilling is riskier, not safer, than was previously thought, according to a new study of attitudes in California. What's more the findings, which appear ...
Other
Sep 2, 2010
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