Thanks to the arduous and tremendous efforts made by supporters and participators for popularizing knowledge about HGP, human genome project (HGP) has made huge social, historical and social impacts. In the paper, HGP provides us with an inspiring reference concerning how to seek a mixture between science and science popularization where new scientific discoveries and development can obtain in-time and enduring support and recognition from the public.

Sagan Effect refers to the dilemma in which the research achievements made by a scientist is underestimated due to his great influence on public science education. This paper firstly analyzes the causes of Sagan Effect from three perspectives: the image of scientists, jealousy, and evaluation of research achievement. Secondly, by resorting to case studies and literature review, it summarizes the influence of Sagan Effect on public science education. Last but not the least, this paper puts forward the solution to the Sagan Effect dilemma from six aspects: changing the way of evaluating research achievement, changing the research grant system, encouraging citizen science projects, using new social media, reconstructing research achievement index system and nurturing celebrity scientists.

In order to better understand the status quo of China’s health popularization research, find out problems, put forward good suggestions, and explore the future development direction of the domestic health popularization research, the paper conducts an analysis of literature and documents on health popularization research from 1996 to 2015 and analyzes it from multiple perspectives. The result indicates that the research on health popularization research in China is still in its infant stage, there exist a number of problems such as less practice, later start, and slower development. Health popularization research place more emphasis on community publicity. The development of health popularization by means of new media is going rapid, while traditional media such as periodical and magazines are declining day by day; there remains “three more and three less” phenomenon in the research of health popularization which focuses more on prioritized diseases and less on less prioritized disease, more on chronic diseases and less on acute diseases, and more on the older and less on adults. Therefore, we should attach great importance to the Internet construction of health popularization research, standardize the research of new media, pay attention to the research of social hot issues on health, the aim of such doing is to guide the direction of public opinions; concern about the key diseases, promote the research of “accurate and down-to earth” popularization in the field of health, expand the coverage of health popularization research, and promote the depth of health popularization research.

This paper reviews the development process about China’s popular science art based on historical documents, and interviews and investigations; divides popular science art into traditional science art and new media art stages by considering whether new media and technologies are widely used in the field of popular art or not; and specifically investigates popular science art in terms of popular science creative team, popular science works, popular science art activities and popular Science Association development.

Scientific literacy is a continuously evolving concept with theoretical and practical connotations. When referring to the evaluation of civic scientific literacy, we should combine new content and new change of the concept with local practice and actual demand for the purpose of monitoring the development of Chinese civic scientific literacy objectively and accurately. This paper analyzes the new trend of the evaluation of civic scientific literacy from the perspectives of the evolution of scientific literacy, the innovation of survey method, the improvement of scientific literacy in the internet era. In a nutshell, some suggestions are put forward regarding the prospective evaluation of civic scientific literacy in the paper.

Museum industry has a long history of development, and its exhibition creation mode also has established a kind of mature theoretical system both in the traditional pattern of “horizontal cooperation” mode and “vertical division of labor” mode, and in the “curator” mode which was originated in the western world. In recent years, Chinese museums have introduced the “curator” system and restructured and optimized it gradually, that move has improved the quality of exhibitions remarkably. Science center started late in China, because of the fact that there remains a large gap in organization and team construction, still, the exhibition creation mode hasn’t been formed fully. In the paper, based on the the analysis and comparison of the exhibition creation mode between museum and science center, the author hopes to promote the level of scientific exhibition especially in the aspects of organization system, curator team collaboration, and implementation of project management by taking the museum curator system for reference.

The Chinese Science Fiction only has a history of over one hundred years, but its development has experienced twists and turns. During a few rounds of new upsurges, there come several generations of science fiction writer groups in sequence. Based on the result of periodization of the Cenozoic and Pleistocene era writers by the Chinese science fiction theoretical cycle, this study sequentially analyses the characteristics of the times for the works and writers in different periods, the ideas guiding creation in the literature, and the kinds of content categories. It concludes that the Chinese science fiction writer groups can be divided into the Paleozoic era, the Mesozoic era, the Cenozoic era, the Pleistocene era and the Holocene era, 5 eras in total.

The manifestation is always presented for a magnificent beauty of technology to achieve the purpose of the typical paradigm of hard science fiction in Liu Cixin’s Novels. Whereas, in Dawn on Me the author shows the endless beauty of technology as well, a more metaphysical concept over the technology, setting a keynote for the novel. Just like the title, Dawn on Me presents a kind of sublime and detachment beauty both in character shaping, story structuring, even in expression of the connotation of the novel. All of this is based on a praise of human’s endless spirit to explore knowledge and the unknown.

The Outline of Science is a senior science popularization book edited by John Arthur Thomson (1861—1933), a British biologist, a naturalist as well as a famous writer of science popularization. Its Chinese translation KexueDagang was published by the Commercial Press in the 1920s. It could be used as a typical study case of science communication in the Republic of China. In this paper, the concepts of science communication in The Outline of Science and its influence are discussed by studying the text of The Outline of Science, its Chinese translation and reviews at that time. It comes to the conclusions that the Chinese translation and its selling price could not satisfy the readers at that time, which had some adverse impacts on the science communication. In addition, the scientific interest, which gains focus on in Thomson’s works, was emphasized in science communication, but the importance of the way of scientific understanding and the dynamic development of science have not been fully disseminated.

Based on the CNKI database, the paper conducts a statistical analysis of the academic literature regarding science museums stored on CNKI from Jan, 1985 to Dec, 2015. The analysis is manifested in the aspects such as the total published papers on science museums, institutes, writers, the way which are used to publish the papers, and the featured traits of the research outputs at the corresponding phases. In a nutshell, the paper epitomizes the current situation and problems facing academic research in the area of science museums over the 30 years, and subsequently puts forward some measures.