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Geotimes
August 2006
Steven Quane |
It's Not Hairspray: America's Need for Science Education We are facing real and immediate energy and environmental challenges that require genuine and progressive leadership to solve. Greater public understanding of science and sound scientific processes have the potential to transform our society.   |
Science News
July 29, 2006 |
Science Safari: Cool Science for Kids This Web site, produced by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, provides hands-on science activities for elementary-school students. |
Scientific American
August 2006
Andrew Hodges |
Reality Show A mock screenplay, including commentary from authors Kirsten Shepherd-Barr and Christopher Frayling, highlighting the problems with science on stage and screen. |
Chemistry World
July 19, 2006
Katharine Sanderson |
Nanotechnology Risk Research Demanded The US government should act fast, and invest significantly, to make sure that nanotechnology and its related products are safe. The call comes from the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, a think-tank that advises on ways to develop policy alongside this burgeoning science. |
Chemistry World
July 12, 2006
Katharine Sanderson |
Nano-Review to Assess Policy Progress A review that will check whether the UK government has followed up on promises to regulate nanotechnology might struggle to find much progress, scientists predict. |
Chemistry World
July 12, 2006
Helen Carmichael |
Finland Kick-Starts EU Innovation Agenda Time is running out to deliver the EU's seventh research framework programme (FP7), warned politicians and expert stakeholders meeting in Finland. FP7 is due to start at the beginning of 2007. |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2006
Stephen Cass |
Sci-Tech: The Movie The Sloan Foundation and the Museum of the Moving Image have teamed up to showcase fifteen films that try to cross-pollinate art and science: The Monster and the Peanut... Skylab... Gray Matter... etc. |
Chemistry World
June 29, 2006
Arthur Rogers |
EU Research Funding Faces Ethical Objection The EU's 37.6 billion pound FP7 funding program cleared first reading in the European Parliament, but now risks becoming mired in conflict over embryology issues. |
Chemistry World
June 23, 2006
Katharine Sanderson |
Open Access, Take it or Leave it The Royal Society, UK, is trialling a hybrid author-pays/reader-pays publishing model. The RS has been a stern critic of open access publishing in the past, and says there is an absence of evidence to support the author-pays model. |
D-Lib
June 2006
Wojick et al. |
The Digital Road to Scientific Knowledge Diffusion: A Faster, Better Way to Scientific Progress? A discussion of issues and description of research being conducted by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information of the United States Department of Energy under its strategic initiative, Innovations in Scientific Knowledge and Advancement. |
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