Public Understanding of Science Blog

Mind the Lab: A new approach to boost science communication

Mind the Lab is a breakthrough initiative in bringing science to the general public, acting as a science teaser to attract people’s interest...

by Jacopo Sacquegno Science has always benefitted from the use of visualization. We can almost say that since the very beginnings of ...

By Jane Gregory and Guoyan Wang Images on journal covers raise the citation rates of academic papers. According Wang, Guoyan and two of he...

(science) Marching for an alternative future https://twitter.com/Millennial_Dems/status/855984811785236481 Un post con...

Haeckel’s Embryos. Images, Evolution, and Fraud Nick Hopwood, | The University of Chicago Press, 2015 The book addresses one of t...

By Elly Zimmer, Ph.D. Science engagement at festivals can be very valuable in reaching large and diverse audiences. Social and cog...

International Women's Day: a reading list. Selected articles from Public Understanding of Science Journal

1860-1900, Paolo Mantegazza and the dream of ‘making’ science popular By Cristiano Turbil Italy, since the unification, became a cou...

1970s, The BBC Controversy, an experiment in science television? By Rupert Cole In the early seventies, long before talk of ‘publi...

By Dr. Bankole Falade Eighty eight percent of Nigerians, from the findings of a World Values Survey , agree with the statement ‘whenever...