The finding, by the Jason panel, an independent group of scientists that advises the federal government on issues of science and technology, bears on the growing debate over whether the United States should ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty or, instead, prepare for the design of new nuclear arms.
This week's Letters section features several letters responding to the recent Science special issue on science communication.
As a result of speaking out on issues of science and religion, I have heard from many young people about the shame and ostracism they experience after merely questioning their family's faith.
I read books and articles on issues of science that encouraged me to think of science as a social institution.
But the most crucial reason to distrust nearly everything said by politicians is their defiance of truth and reality on issues of science.
'Doing governance' implies the space for making explicit what is moving all the different (kinds of) stakeholders on issues of science and technology.
Over the past decades, the debate over the role of the public in creating policies on issues of science and technology has increased (Rowe & Frewer 2000).
In 2004, Bush appointed him a member of the National Science Board, which oversees the National Science Foundation and provides advice to Congress and the president on issues of science and technology.
Through high school science teacher interaction and education on issues of science and ethics, to directly working with church communities, the fellows create formal and informal science education relevant for the entire community.
The Japanese-led team published a collection of seven papers in a special issue of Science on 2 June 2006 based on observations by four instruments as the Hayabusa spacecraft circled asteroid Itokawa in the fall of 2005.
