In the debut issue of a new open access online journal, Euresis, Owen Gingerich, Professor Emeritus of Astronomy and the History of Science at Harvard, offers a fascinating essay on Johannes Kepler and his book Astronomia Nova.

FORBES: Kepler, Mars and the Turning Point in Astronomy

Speakers will include the 6 young winners of the essay contest and experts in marine science.

UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences

In subjects such as English and history, the exams will test essay writing, while in maths and science there will be a greater focus on quantitative problem solving.

BBC: GCSE changes to final exams 'will disadvantage girls'

The statistician Stephen Stigler once wrote an elegant essay about the futility of the practice of eponymy in science that is, the practice of naming a scientific discovery after its inventor.

NEWYORKER: In the Air

Not long ago, for instance, I wrote an essay about the great Galileo, and the beginnings of modern science.

BBC: A Point of View: Science, magic, and madness

This week a Chinese newspaper, Global Times, published an essay by a member of the country's Academy of Military Science.

ECONOMIST: India and China

Monday saw the publication of this essay in Scientific American by Robert Fortner, highlighting a new NSF report on the continuing decline of US Science productivity.

FORBES: U.S. Science Education: Standards of Mediocrity?