Depending on the innovative conceptions about having a lot of science popularization resources and others, the basic peculiarities of the engineering and technology museums in the enterprises were discussed in this paper, as well as the two difficult points of their construction, they are: lack of persons with ability of science popularization and the scientific originality, normative facture of these articles and items of exhibition. The measures and countermeasures were put forward by means of three modes: linking industrial experts with science popularization scholars, once programming but actualizing in stages, taking measures suited to local conditions. At the same time, the plan, design and facture of articles of exhibition and items on display were also discussed, as well as the relation between the museum; and the “tour of industrial science popularization”.

The basic purpose of constructing an innovational country is to improve people’s benefit from the development of science and technology. Firstly, this paper discovers the functions of the universities’ Association for Science and Technology in promoting innovation in science popularization. By analyzing the case of Associations for S&T in Chongqing University for many years, some urgent problems have been put forward. Finally, a new viewpoint, that science needs science popularization, meanwhile science popularization must be scientific, has also been brought forward for discussion.

The objective of the present paper is an attempt to measure the public understanding of science in the area of health and hygiene and test the efficacy of “cultural distance model”. A pre-tested open-ended questionnaire was used for administering cross-sectional surveys at a religio-cultural festival in India. 3484 individuals were interviewed and responses were coded and entered to construct computer database. The data was used for determining the cultural distance of five scientific concepts from the quotidian life of the target population. In developing countries, the formal system of modern education operates as a strong determinant in shaping cultural structures of thoughts prevalent among the citizens. There exists a cultural distance between the scientific structure of configuring natural occurrences and peoples' complexity of thoughts. The distance varies significantly across the concepts that were subjected to the inspection and is a function of the nature of scientific information.

This article studies the mission of China’s science popularization from the historical perspective. Through inspecting the history of science popularization and the background of science and technology, we may know that the science popularization is adapted to the development phase of contemporary science and technology, moreover, it is connected with the destiny of science and technology. In technology times, the new characteristics of science and technology make the science popularization have new changes. After analyzing the background of science, technology and culture in contemporary China, the article proposes the mission of China’s science popularization in technology times.

Having studied and compared the history of development, the function and management, as well as the sustainable development of the museums in China and in UK, the paper finds out the differences and gaps between the two countries’ museums, thus guiding the development of China's museums of science and technology by learning from the successful experiences of the UK museums and drawing lessons from their mistakes.

From the perspective of modern science popularization's characteristics, properties and future tendency, this paper gives a deep discussion and thinking about some points in the research of science popularization history in China on the basis of previous studies, and in this way the author tries to survey the research of science popularization history in China.

The paper reviews the way European citizens perceive science and technology (S&T) today, as reflected by a public opinion survey conducted in 32 European countries in 2005. It also includes some comparison with similar surveys conducted recently in the US and in China. Against this background, the paper addresses the challenges and difficulties of science communication in Europe today. Recent initiatives have been taken by the European Commission (EC) in improving communication in general and science communication in particular. The EC's Directorate-General for Research is actively involved in communicating the results of EU-funded research to the media and the general public. Support and help are provided to assist project coordinators and team leaders to generate an effective flow of information and publicity about the objectives and results of their work. Concrete measures taken by the European Commission to improve communication, outreach and dissemination of research results, such as the recent 'Communicating European Research 2005' conference in Brussels, are also presented.

In this paper the author identifies four significant waves of Taiwan’s popular science movement, starting from 1970, all through print publications. However, these four waves seems unable to deliver long-lasting results. Pseudo-science is still widely perceived as facts. The author then argues that it is necessary to set the top priorities for science publishing, in the hope of further improving popular science movement.

These four waves are marked by various publishing events. The first wave was made by "Science Monthly," founded in 1970, pioneering "Explaining Scientific Knowledge in Chinese". The second wave was brought by the Chinese edition of "Newton Magazine" in 1983, introducing "The New Era of Illustrated Science Magazine". The third wave arose in 1991, when Commonwealth Publishing Company launched its popular science list, "Science Culture", and started the dialogues between science and humanities communities in Taiwan. The fourth wave emerged from 1998 till now, and during this period, about a dozen of publishing houses established their popular science lists, and two popular science magazines were launched: "Scientific People" (the Complex Chinese Edition of Scientific American) and "Science Development Monthly" (sponsored by National Science Council).

Although every decade a wave would exhibit some effects, altogether they failed to create continued scientific enlightenment as expected. Pseudo-science is still prevailing in Taiwan and the following concerning science publishing would require our immediate attention:

1. Re-target the audience: Aiming at high school students and adjusting the level of knowledge conveyed in the publications accordingly.

2. Choose the right media to work with.

3. Uphold fundamental scientific views: Do not publicize the pseudo-science.

4. Place emphasis on translation and writing techniques.

5. Apply publishing expertise: Production, printing, sales and marketing, logistics and finance are all critical to publishing operation.

6. Encourage active participation of university presses: University presses are easy access to academic resources and communities.

SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) countries live in various layers, such as social, cultural, political, religious, scientific, economical, and natural. The bilateral and multilateral sharing, exchange, interaction and communication between these layers can mark a turning point of the process of overall development of the region and role of public communication of science and technology could be crucial and vital in this regard. Though, there exist a variety of programmes and activities for taking science to masses and inculcating a scientific bent of mind into them, generally, it was observed that all these layers are working in isolation and there is hardly any interaction. The present study discovers a range of modes and means of science communication prevalent in these countries and tries to identify some common threads amongst them to make them more interactive and communicative to each other so that they can also share the power of scientific knowledge and scientific wisdom. It emerged that science communication through various media, be it print, broadcast, digital, folk or interactive in developing countries, especially in SAARC region, i. e., Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri-Lanka deserves much more serious efforts to be able to enhance their abysmally low level of scientific literacy, eradicate superstitions, and achieve a baseline public understanding of science. It is the high time to draw advantages from the programmes like Sixth Framework of the European Union especially meant for scientific cooperation (including science communication) between EU and developing countries. A close interaction and communication between these layers would make them more responsive to each other as well as paving the way to develop better understanding and cooperation leading to sustainable development.