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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...
DATE: September 21st, 2003
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Scholars and scientists do research to create new knowledge so that other scholars and scientists can use it to create still more new knowledge and to apply it to improving...
DATE: September 21st, 2003
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There are forces, factors, and influences other than pending classical peer review that assure the quality of scholarship before formal publication....
DATE: September 21st, 2003
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n 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...
DATE: September 21st, 2003
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Over the last few years the media  and especially television  have focussed on presumed health emergencies such as mad-cow disease, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), the Di Bella cancer-cure...
DATE: June 21st, 2003
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In the field of scientific communication in Europe, science centres have gained increasing importance over the last ten years. Italy, beyond the City of Science in Naples, is also planning...
DATE: June 21st, 2003
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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...
DATE: June 21st, 2003
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"Weapons of mass destruction" is the word of the year 2002, at least according to the American Dialect Society, an association which has been studying the English language in North...
DATE: June 21st, 2003
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No field of western society has remained untouched by the events of September 11. Lastly, science and science communication are also bearing the consequences. During the annual meeting of the...
DATE: June 21st, 2003
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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....
DATE: June 21st, 2003
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Terms such as gmo, genetic tests and pharmacogenomics, which were once used only by experts, belong today to everyday language. The new vocabulary of molecular biology shows an increase in...
DATE: March 21st, 2003
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Compared to expert-to-expert - or peer-to-peer - communication, the language of popular science is characterised by a wider use of figurative devices. This applies to all forms of verbal and...
DATE: March 21st, 2003
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In the last few years, a continuous series of food alerts have caught the attention of the media and the public in Europe. First, eggs and pork contaminated with dioxins;...
DATE: March 21st, 2003
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In a brief article published by Science last October, British scientists stated that the expression "Public Understanding of Science" (PUS), which was traditionally employed in Anglosaxon societies to refer to...
DATE: March 21st, 2003
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In recent weeks, Britain’s Better Regulation Task Force report on scientific research regulation asked the Government to evaluate the risks associated with the development of Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies. The Government...
DATE: March 21st, 2003
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This article presents the results of a study carried out in Italy by the Permanent Observatory on science communication through the media. The aim of this research project coordinated by...
DATE: September 21st, 2002
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This work analyses how the theme of the creation of thinking machines by man, particularly through artificial intelligence, is dealt with on stage, with reference to three plays addressing different...
DATE: September 21st, 2002
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Enrico Fermi's work gave birth to a real cultural revolution in the Italian scientific scenario. His scientific studies concerned almost every field in physics and had far-reaching effects of which...
DATE: September 21st, 2002
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Communicating modern biotechnologies is certainly no easy task. To tackle such a complex and future-oriented assignment, help may arrive, paradoxically, from the past, from ancient rhetorical tradition, and in particular...
DATE: September 21st, 2002
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This paper is concerned with the interactions between information technology and the humanities, and focuses on how the humanities have changed since adopting computers. The debate among humanists on the...
DATE: September 21st, 2002
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This paper is concerned with the interactions between information technology and the humanities, and focuses on how the humanities have changed since adopting computers. The debate among humanists on the...
DATE: September 21st, 2002
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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 hits the headlines. It...
DATE: September 21st, 2002
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A new online and mobile resource for teens, Sparticl presents the best science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) resources on the web. A team of experts has hand-selected articles, videos,...
DATES: October 1st, 2013 - December 31st, 2015
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Popularising mathematics requires a preliminary reflection on language and terms, the choice of which results from underlying dynamics. The aim of this article is to start an overall analysis of...
DATE: June 21st, 2002
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According to Einstein’s renowned declaration, for those who believe in physics – or, more precisely, in its capability to offer a “scientific” representation of the world – the distinction between...
DATE: June 21st, 2002
