Innovation in Science Is on The Decline And We're Not Sure Why

Science Alert ^ | 5 Jan 2023 | Daniel Lawler and Juliette Collen

[roadcat]

Do the schools still do science fairs (or whoever did them)?

Interesting question, I have no idea. I know it is not, and never has been done in our area (San Francisco peninsula). My granddaughters in Des Moines, Iowa, go to an excellent public school, where they regularly take kids to science museums and discuss science including hands-on exhibits, and their local library also is excellent with hands-on teaching. They get hands-on experience with science. Far better than anything here in the SF area (which is mostly non-existent).

[Chgogal]

Only certain observations, hypocriticals, proofs, etc. are allowed.

[x]

There are many very significant scientific questions that are not understood but our tools are not sufficient to answer them.

Something like that was my thought as well. We have a lot of specialty STEM schools that are supposed to be directing young people into science and technology, and it doesn't seem likely that political correctness dictates what physicists and chemists do, but it does happen in history that science stagnates when the tools and instruments aren't there for the next generation of experiments and theories.

[combat_boots]

Heavy R&D has gone to E Asia