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Launch Article
By Roger Highfield, Science Editor
How many people really appreciate the importance of science? Do they realise quite how much it is changing our world? Not just for the worse, in terms of pollution and climate change, but for the better too – in terms of life expectancy, and the ability to travel more widely and experience more sensations, real and virtual, than at any time in human history? In fact, do they understand any science at all?
Full article November, 2007
Launch Article
By Steve Jones,
Professor of genetics at University College London
Last Saturday, at the Sheffield International Documentary Festival, I was struck by the unexpected thought that a word can be worth a thousand pictures. The Wellcome Trust – Europe’s largest medical charity – is interested in promoting the public face of science, so has poured a few handfuls of brass into sponsoring the steel town’s new incarnation as a digital village.
Full article November, 2007
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