Better Science, Better Science Reporting

Better Science, Better Science Reporting

Science and Culture: Cartoons to better communicate science.

Words often fail when teaching science. Although some scientific concepts lend themselves to easily articulated descriptions and definitions, others consist mostly of a language of symbols only decipherable by knowledgeable experts. Diagrams can help. However, some researchers and science educators believe another medium, known more for its entertainment value than its educational value, is oft...

Better science does not make decisions easier

Forty years of development in the science and technology of estimating and quantifying risk, of understanding of human behaviour and human rationale has made decision makers more informed. We are in a much better position now, than forty years ago in estimating probabilities, consequences, and damages, and in estimating and dealing with the associated uncertainties in an organised way. This did...

Internet science-Creating better browser warnings

The number of internet users is increasing everyday, the number of security threats is growing as well. Browser warnings try to avoid users from being defrauded. They warn the users about the possibility of a threat, but it is always up to the user to decide whether to heed or ignore the warning. One main issue is the overwhelming amount of security warnings that each user might face, which mak...

Better Data Discoverability in Science Gateways

Science gateways primarily focused on remote job execution management generate domain specific output data mainly readable by application specific parsers and post processing utilities. For example, computational chemistry data outputs encode molecule information, convergence of the simulation and energy values. Such domain-specific information is non-trivial to search in a generic fashion. It ...