Moreover, unlike art, science is a collective activity that demands collaboration.

ECONOMIST: History of science

The price makes the 14 May launch the single most valuable flight for pure science in the history of European space activity.

BBC: Telescopes given 'go' for launch

The project has been carried out during the 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 school years and was aimed at all teachers open to participating in a creative activity on the theme of water and science with their Primary or early Secondary school classes.

UNESCO: Natural Sciences

What seems to be attractive in science is no longer its being a high intellectual activity, a continuous human search to represent and predict nature, but for what it can produce in terms of controlling, and therefore in terms of power, of mankind on his sorroundings and his fellows.

UNESCO: Science Policy and Capacity-Building

Show Video Clip: Science of Public Opinion and follow up with the discussion questions and activity from the March 21, 2000 CNN NEWSROOM classroom guide.

CNN: The Polls

The chief executive of the Association for Science Education, Annette Smith, said it did not assess science as it happened in primary schools - as an active, practical activity which built on children's curiosity and observation skills.

BBC: All school Sats tests 'might go'

Anyone that's ever tried to plan an outdoor activity in advance knows that weather forecasting is not an exact science, but the perpetual sky-watchers at NASA may have inadvertently found a way to improve these guesstimations.

ENGADGET: NASA accidentally improves weather forecasting with lunar dust-measuring lasers

In March 2012, the Allen Institute for Brain Science embarked upon a ten-year project to understand the neural code: how brain activity leads to perception, decision making, and ultimately action.

WHITEHOUSE: Fact Sheet: BRAIN Initiative