OPINION

Textbooks – an endangered species?

Don't phase out traditional methods for more fashionable ways to learn science, warns Tim Oates

Resurrecting a mammoth seems pointless and cruel

Attempts to bring back extinct animals could do more harm than good, says Tom Ireland 

Plant blindness: time to find a cure

We must help people see that plants are dynamic, social and vital to life

Scientists: let's embrace fiction as well as facts

How story-telling can tell the truth about science

Learning the art of science

Education and public engagement must be more than fun facts and activities, argue Dr James Redfern and Professor Joanna Verran – they must tell us about the science

On shaky ground

Joe Turner asks why, when soil is crucial to our food supply and an essential component of a healthy biosphere, we continue to ignore the skills required to study it

Going public

Professor Bruce Hood says pop-up events can take the stress out of public engagement