New Mètode Call for Papers. The monograph in issue 106 (spring 2020) will be devoted to the historical and sociological aspects of standards. Deadline for submission: 4 October 2019.
The yearly journal of 2019 focuses on the need for better and more extensive communication of biotechnology and its advancements, biodiversity as a dynamic concept, and the relations between machines and humans in the twenty-first century.
Interview with Carolina Moreno, Full Professor of Journalism of the University of Valencia and director of the CONCISE European project.
Maxwell Boykoff discusses the keys to innovative and effective scientific communication with his lecture at the La Nau Cultural Centre on 28 February.
What challenges are awaiting science in the short and medium term, in technical, social and even ethical terms?
When, where, why and under what conditions is climate change communicated? On 28 February at 19:00, Maxwell Boykoff will deliver a lecture at the La Nau Cultural Centre devoted to creativity and climate change communication.
«The great challenges of science» begins on February 28 with a talk about climate change by Maxwell Boykoff.
«In wartime medicine, medics are not only loyal to the patients, but to state and military interests»
Interview with Leo van Bergen
Interview with Leo van Bergen, historian and military-medical expert, on the occasion of the centenary of Armistice Day, which marked the end of World War I.
New Mètode call for papers. Monograph 105 (spring 2020) will focus on the role of the plants of the future in the future challenges of humanity.
Mètode's autumn issue tries to offer a general overview of the world of robotics and artificial intelligence from the point of view of six experts in the field.
New call for papers: in this issue of Mètode Science Studies Journal (autumn 2019) we will explore salient issues on the evolution of biological diversity.
Mètode, the research dissemination journal of the University of Valencia, has been awarded the Special Jury Prize in the XIX Ciencia en Acción competition for its «rigour and quality».
The 2018 annual review focuses on future mathematical challenges, the palaeontological history of Homo sapiens, the delusions of pseudoscience and medical dissemination through literature.
The latest Mètode monograph shows the importance of communication and popularisation in the field of biotechnology.
«If you have a sound biological education, then you cannot become a creationist»
Interview with Graham Bell
Interview with Dr. Graham Bell, Professor of Evolution at McGill University (Montréal) and one of the most important voices in the academic field of evolutionary biology.
This Mètode Science Studies Journal monograph will deal with how National Socialism modelled the scientific development in order to serve its ideological interests. Deadline for submission: 15 December 2018.
The new Mètode monograph, Narrating health, shows the different ways in which the literature connects medicine and health.
Mileva Maric was a notorious mathematician and Einstein's first wife. Although her figure is not well known, there is a big debate regarding her role in Einstein's Nobel Prize for Physics.
Reflections on gender and science from the experience of professionals
Four female voices in science
Obstacles, virtues and experiences derived from being a woman in science.
Violence resulting from armed and political conflicts has led many societies to carry with them the suffering of those who have disappeared. This issue is dedicated to the role played by social and forensic sciences in the service of shed light on memory. Deadline for submission: 1 December 2018.
According to the astrophysicist and communicator Javier Armentia, supermoons do not really exist. As he explains, the term is not astronomical, but vulgar astrology.
«Pseudosciences are by-products of the prestige of science as a social enterprise and as a means of obtaining knowledge. Their character is inherently negative, given that, by definition, a pseudoscience is an intellectual fraud». Thus begins monograph 95 of Mètode, coordinated by Angelo Fasce.
Valencia's importance in the old Silk Road has helped the city to become a participant in the UNWTO Silk Road Programme, an initiative that joins territories and research projects from Japan to Portugal. Experts take the opportunity to remember and promote Valencian landscape and historical and artistic heritage.
Fire has been a defining element in the formation of human societies. Then, why is seen as an alien element in our society? A look back to Mètode's issue dedicated to wildfires.