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What is public understanding for?

Britain's second annual 'science week' provokes questions about the aims of the public understanding of science - and about the defects of the educational system, still unreformed.

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What is public understanding for?. Nature 374, 291–292 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1038/374291a0

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