by Andrew Maynard | Jun 15, 2014 | Technology Innovation
Each year for the past several years it seems, the issue of whether nanoparticles used in sunscreens are safe comes up – usually just before summer. I’ve written quite a lot about this on 2020 Science in the past (check out the archives), but this year I...
by Andrew Maynard | Jun 7, 2014 | Health
Recently the American publication Mother Jones published an article on the dangers of food laced with tiny metal oxide particles. The article, however, is laced with errors and misinformation. The source material for the article came from a report by the environmental...
by Andrew Maynard | Feb 25, 2014 | Responsible Innovation, Technology Innovation
Top ten breakthrough technologies The World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Emerging Technologies today released its annual list of breakthrough technologies. The list highlights 10 trends in technological advancement that could offer innovative solutions to...
by Andrew Maynard | Nov 18, 2013 | Communication, Engagement
After nearly two years and four hundred posts, the science communication course at the University of Michigan that feeds the Mind The Science Gap blog is coming to and end. In between running a department, directing a research center, teaching, and actually doing...
by Andrew Maynard | May 26, 2013 | Communication, Education
From Risk Sense: Six months ago, Risk Bites launched as a somewhat quirky YouTube experiment in science communication. Twenty-seven videos on, how are things going? Risk Bites was originally conceived as a way of pulling some rather cool insights into the...
