Using more than one language when teaching and learning science in schools can greatly enhance concept development. This in fact goes to the heart of science.
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Nobel Laureate Peter Doherty’s new book explores why so many people today selectively reject science, and in the process gives a behind the scenes look at how science really works.
Medical research can be complex and difficult to understand, but cinematic representations of mad scientists who speak gobbledygook add to the confusion. An annual event separates fact from fiction.
For a growing number of artists, academics, researchers and scientists, dance represents a promising new frontier of exploration. The annual DANscienCE festival shines a spotlight on their findings.
How successful a mother or career scientist one can become depends on how one’s available time is divided between the two activities.
A group of young Indonesian scientists set a science agenda for the country.
A new report on the future of humanity explains what we really need to be worrying about over the next 35 years.
Investing in science, technology and innovation can help give Nigeria a positive lift in many sectors of the economy.
There are valuable and authentic wisdom traditions in all cultures. How can indigenous knowledge be woven into the existing science curriculum?
Training teachers to make science lessons more practical, creative and challenging benefits their students.
What are the pressures on researchers that could lead to misrepresentation of facts? Do the “guardians need a guard”?
Science-fiction, to some extent, can indeed create science.
Men rule the roost in science and technology as women continue to battle against the glass ceiling.
Lightning can kill if one does not heed the safety measures.
Are we ready for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to design how we move into a new era of capitalism?
Winners of the Wellcome Images Award 2015 tell us about how they got their special shot.
All week I’ve been intrigued and inspired by posters appearing in my department that depict truly great scientists, mathematicians and engineers. Few of them were known to me or my fellow students, yet…
If you were to believe the tabloid hype around Davos you might be forgiven for thinking it’s a giant party where elite business types meet celebrities and dole out a few quid to the less fortunate of the…
In the early days of independent India, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru said, “It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty … of a rich country inhabited by starving people.” Would…
Science evokes images of Bunsen burners, coloured liquids, vapours rising from flasks, white coats and safety goggles. But are we making too much of the rigid assessment of the practical parts of science…
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Open Evidence Research, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, UOC - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
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Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Department of Physics, University of York
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Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Cognitive and Parapsychology, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Professor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), University of Sydney
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Deputy CEO (Research), Australian Council for Educational Research
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Associate Professor, Philosophy of Science, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Associate, School of Physics, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor in Astronomy, Monash University
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Dean of Science, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Emeritus Professor, School of Environment and Science, Griffith University
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Head of Developmental Psychobiology Lab, Deakin University
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Professor of Management & Organizations; Professor of Environment & Sustainability; Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the Ross School of Business and School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan
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