What if the knowledge that could fuel the next scientific breakthrough has simply been forgotten in an old graph or table? Valuable scientific insights may already exist across decades of published ...

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Suggested Citation: "3 Science Literacy in Society and the World." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. Science Literacy: Concepts ...

The specific questions posed about reproducibility and replicability in the committee’s statement of task are part of the broader question of how scientific knowledge is gained, questioned, and ...

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Overconfidence is a prevalent problem and it is particularly consequential in its relation with scientific knowledge: being unaware of one’s own ignorance can affect behaviours and threaten public ...

We are witnessing a resurgence of Indigenous knowledge and growing acknowledgement of its scientific value worldwide. In Aotearoa, there’s been some progress, including the introduction of a public ...