In winter, the snakes sleep
Mar 06, 2020
Let us look at the coronavirus outbreak in China. Dissemination of accurate and well-interpreted information is key in the early stages of an emerging outbreak.
Etiqueta: science popularization
Interview with Elizabeth Rasekoala
Dec 02, 2019
Elizabeth Rasekoala has been awarded for her fight for diversity, sociocultural, and gender inclusion, in science learning, practice, and communication in Africa.
Communicating, popularising, disseminating
Sep 02, 2019
What do scientists do when they explain their own or others’ research? Do they communicate do they popularise? Gemma Marfany prefers to say she disseminates knowledge...
Big history
Sep 02, 2019
Over the centuries, several authors have attempted to put together popularisation works about the big history of scientific knowledge. One of the is Vestiges, by Robert Chambers.
Science makes scientific journalism work difficult
Mar 01, 2018
Current science leads us to pajama dissemination, to write about stories without ever leaving our homes.
Astronomy and space on the big screen
Mar 31, 2017
Since its origins, cinema has been fascinated with the subject of scientific developments. In particular, astronomy and astrophysics have played an important role in science fiction stories about space travel and exploration. Though the science has not always been accurately represented, in the last decades
The mathematics media blackout
Mar 29, 2017
The journalists José Martí and Javier del Pino analyse media coverage of the discipline during the debate «How mathematics are seen from the other side».
Interview with Pere Estupinyà
Jan 31, 2017
Science communicator, writer and public speaker. That is how Pere Estupinyà (Tortosa, 1974) describes himself. He is also known as «the sex scientist».
Science loses prestige
Jan 24, 2017
[caption id="attachment_44056" align="alignleft" width="320"] Illustration by Moisés Mahiques[/caption] A few days ago, the writer of a radio programme wrote to me asking if I would like to comment on a scientific study on the air. The study said that oral sex reduced the risk of cancer.
Publishing science: A chronic problem
Jul 27, 2016
I write this article in the midst of a controversy among Spanish scientists regarding an alleged fraud in the works of one of them. If the accusations were true, published works, allegedly manipulated, passed the most rigorous scientific excellence tests for years. Fraud and plagiarism
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