We compared the media reporting on the PM2.5 by the major newspapers in China and the USA. In particular, we examined the differences in the total numbers, contents, genres, and sources of the reports on the PM2.5 in the People's Daily of China and the New York Times of the USA. Our goals here are to better understand the current status of the reporting on the environmental issues in China and to draw lessons from the USA. We found that the reporting in the two countries differs in the coverage patterns, focuses, formats, styles, and sources of news and concluded that there are fewer scientific facts and knowledge, limited sources of news, less investigational reporting, and a lack of informed environmental ethics in the reporting in China.

Food safety has been a hot button issue and gained extensive attention from the public, among which genetically modified foods (GMFs) cause worldwide intense debate. The wide penetration of new communication technologies, for instance WeChat, makes it wider for news consumption. We want to explore whether the news of GMFs on the WeChat Official Account Admin Platform covers different aspects, conforming to the principle of fair coverage. We collected 824 articles on GMFs from the Platform, conduct semantic network analysis of the news items and represent particular facts and practices. Results indicate that news on the Platform are related to various practices, such as GMF safety regulation, labeling policy, science popularization and disclosure of GMF events and finally we give some suggestions based on the analysis of the problems we found.

The twenty-first Century is the era with rapid science and technology development. People are eager to improve their science literacy in order to meet the needs of social development. The combination of popular science and tourism offers a good way for the spread of science and technology. This study summarizes research progress of popular science tourism at home and abroad in terms of concept, resource, development, strategy, and feartured popular science tourism. And it also reviewes the research progress of popular science tourism.

In 2003, for in-depth the implementation of Law of the People's Republic of China on Popularization of Science and Technology, Wuhan started to launch the popular science volunteer organizations, according to the requirements of The Sixth Congress of the China Association for Science and Technology, “Widely organizing volunteers to the work of science popularization”. Since then, the popular science volunteer organizations have carried out various-forms and content-rich science popularization volunteer service activities. At the same time, there are some problems existing in the team constructing, operation mechanism and social impacts. Through questionnaires and other ways, this article analyzes the situation, problems and reasons of structure, operating mechanism, social impact of the popular science volunteer organizations in Wuhan. On the basis of the survey, this article proposed some countermeasures to develop popular science volunteer organizations in Wuhan and provide some reference for the building up of popular science volunteer organizations.

The progress of British science and technology led to the prosperity of economy and industry. However, because of the challenges from pseudo-scientific thought and movement and criticism to scientific methodology, cultural significance of science and value from scholars of religion and humanities, science was in crisis. Important intellectual background is provided by investigating science crisis, its causes and effects in Victorian era, in order to deepen exploration of philosophical debates, the essence and relevance of scientific culture and humanity culture in the period.

With the rapid development of Chinese society and economy, there is an increasing demand for qualified science and technical personnel for China's modernization. However, students' interest in learning science and their aspirations to pursue science-related professions decline sharply when they are getting old. This issue has become a considerable concern in the field of science education. This survey study sets out to investigate grade 7 students from three regions in Zhejiang province. The research findings of this study have shown that students were highly interested in studying science, but very few would like to become a scientist. Factors such as parents' attitudes to science, peers' attitudes to science, students' school science experience, self-efficacy science learning, images of scientists, informal science experience may shape the formation of students' science aspirations. Moreover, students' science aspirations had significant difference on gender and family background.

The informatization is the direction of the effort in science popularization in new era. It refers to the change not only in the technological method and channel of science popularization, but also in the idea and model of science popularization. This paper presents the connotation of informatization in science popularization (ISP) in 3 dimensions, which is related to the knowledge management and the informatization in education to some extent. In terms of practice, ISP in China includes the digitalization period, networking period and intelligentialize period. The three periods have their starting points, and they still continue the development. ISP is of great importance in promoting the construction of knowledge society and creating the ambient of scientific culture in society. The measurement of ISP is the effective guarantee to promote the work process and achieve the ultimate goal.

This paper summarizes the development of science popularization in our country and its research status accordingly and studies the government regulation on construction of science popularization system and the deficiencies of the existing system. Based on some theoretical support, the paper establishes the development paths of construction of science popularization system by the government regulation and society coordination, and puts forward some policy suggestions.

Youth creativity assessment has important practical significance for youth creativity training in the process of education. This study combs youth creativity literatures and organize the history and development of creativity assessment tools, and provideds a brief overview from the creative individual, creative process, creative products, creative environment and comprehensive assessment tools evaluation dimensions, pointing out the existing problems on assessment tools and creativity theory.

Young people is one of the key population of the national science literacy action plan. In order to promote the teenagers to improve their science literacy and innovation ability, the benchmarks of science literacy for teenagers should be developed, laying the basis for the implementation and monitoring of the science literacy action for teenagers. In this paper, standard and evaluation project of the science literacy for teenagers home and abroad are introduced and analyzed briefly, and the content of structural benchmarks of science literacy for teenagers is proposed based on the Nine-component Model of science literacy.