Latest ArticlesOn the basis of qualitative research and quantitative research, this article has done a comparative study between China Science Festival and Edinburgh International Science Festival in organizational form, activities, organization and coordination, funding structure, propaganda model and effect evaluation, and it has inferred some problems and shortcomings of domestic science activities through interview and literature review. Based on successful experience of the major international science festivals, this article has proposed some suggestions for domestic science festivals, and provided some reference for the organizing and developing of large domestic science activities.
National Science Popularization Day and Science & Technology Week whose target is publicizing science & technology development achievements, accelerating public understanding of science and promoting public scientific literacy are two important large activities on science & technology in China. More than ten years, these two events have accumulated lots of experience and obtained many great achievements. Based on development and characteristics of international science & technology events activities, this paper analyzed and evaluated more comprehensively and systematically the operating mechanism, topic on activity, input-output, public benefit, current problems, improvement measure and so on about National Science Popularization Day and Science & Technology Week in China and found some conclusions and put come to relative suggestions.
Community education is a new type of education which serves as an effective strategy to promote the development of the economy. And it is also a kind of education reform innovation of American higher education system. The science of American community education concept is composed of opening enrollment, science education balanced; international curriculum science education continuous horizontal extension; composite paradigm, scientific education resource sharing; personalized features, and reveal personality science education. On the basis of the core idea, the American community science education mode is divided into four dimensions which are self-organized mode, tightly around the market course mode, dispersion flat management mode, paying attention to the evaluation model, and paying attention to the evaluation mode.
In this paper, the initial publication of the chemical structure of artemisinin on Chinese Science Bulletin (1977), as well as the disclosure of its antimalarial efficacy and R&D process on Guangming Daily (1978) are documented, and both events have revealed the contribution of Tu Youyou and the Institute of Chinese Medicine of Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine in the identification and structure determination of artemisinin. The author argues that the disclosure of the particular details in artemisinin's antimalarial research actually did not bring any disadvantages to the invention patent application of artemisinin; instead, it has played a certain role to make Tu Youyou, a 2015 Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine.
The research on the function of science popularization in the large scientific devices is not only of important scientific significance, but also has important social significance. The function of science popularization can further improve the comprehensive utilization and efficiency of the large scientific devices. To increase the publicity of the large scientific devices, to create the unique “scientific image” of the science and technology, to establish a variety of interactive space, and let the public participate in it in different ways is very important. The measures to strengthen the policy support for the scientific research and the training of talents will be beneficial to the realization of the function of science popularization.
The large scientific facility is the foundation and important guarantee both for science technology innovation and economic social development. Study of large scientific facilities holds great significance not only for scientific research, but for society and strategic direction as well. It is a key concern in science communication to improve the multipurpose use of large scientific facilities and better develop their systematic effectiveness. Based on a case study of the accelerators in Japan and Taiwan area, we discuss in this paper on how to exploit and make better use of the large science facilities in science popularization.
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