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This year's New Scientist Live is the best place to distinguish science fiction from science fact thanks to its unique mix of live experiments, talks by world-class scientists, and demonstrations of the latest cutting-edge technology.īBC Strictly winner & wildlife photographer Hamza Yassin, TV Doctor & Presenter Dr Chris van Tulleken, TV presenter & YouTuber Maddie Moate, and anatomist, biological anthropologist, author and broadcaster Alice Roberts will be among the other experts taking part in this year’s three-day extravaganza for curious minds from across the globe. And one in five (19%) said they would now turn to social media to check if a scientific fact was true or not, with 11% likely to look it up on Facebook and 9% turning to TikTok.

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The study also found just a quarter (27%) of people are confident holding a conversation about science and nearly half (43%) would actively avoid talking about science or would be out of their comfort zone discussing the subject.Ħ2% said their scientific knowledge has either stayed the same or decreased since leaving school, with 30% admitting to making no effort to update their knowledge since then. Sometime strange and mistaken beliefs about the world just get circulated until they take on a life of their own and are accepted without question." “But one of the lessons of the way we do science is that we must always be curious and demand evidence about what we are told.

Physicist and Radio 4 presenter Professor Jim Al-Khalili, one of the experts taking part in this year’s New Scientist Live, said: "While there has always been a concern about the public’s mistrust of science, the flip side is often that anything sounding vaguely scientific is taken to be true. Meanwhile, 51% said vaccines can’t protect against bacterial infections when there are vaccines that specifically target bacterial pathogens for diseases like whooping cough, tetanus and diphtheria, and 46% think AI was invented in the 21st century when legendary mathematician Alan Turing invented a test for artificial intelligence as far back as the 1950s. But the man-made structure is not big enough to be seen from space and evidence has shown we likely use all our brains over the course of a single day. More than half also falsely believe the Great Wall of China is visible from space (55%) and we use only 10% of our brains (54%).

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The survey reveals that more than two thirds of people (68%) would pee on themselves to ease a jellyfish sting this summer because they incorrectly believe the old wives' tale, made popular in a 1997 episode of hit TV series Friends called ‘The One With The Jellyfish’.Ħ6% don’t believe goldfish have a memory of at least two months despite a number of scientific studies now proving their memories to last much longer than just a few seconds.Īnd 63% of people said they think global warming is caused by the hole in the ozone layer when it’s actually due to too much carbon monoxide being released into the atmosphere.

You swallow spiders when you are asleep.

Vaccines do not protect against bacterial infections.

AI technology was invented in the 21 st century.

It is the father's genes that decide if a baby is male or female.

Lightning never strikes the same place twice.

Cows can be tipped over while they are sleeping.

Global warming is caused by the hole in the ozone layer.

Goldfish have a memory of at least two months.

Men and women have the same number of ribs.

The Great Wall of China is the only man-made object visible from space.

Applying urine to jellyfish stings eases the pain.

Lemmings control their population by jumping off cliffs.

The science facts and fictions that stump half of us, but which do you believe?

Half of Britons struggle to tell science fact from science fiction according to a new study commissioned ahead of New Scientist Live this autumn (ExCeL London from Saturday 7 October to Monday 9 October).Ģ,000 people were asked to select the real facts from 15 science-related statements compiled by the experts taking part in this year’s New Scientist Live, with 48% getting it wrong overall. If you think any of these popular science misconceptions are true, you’re not alone. Peeing on a jellyfish stings eases the pain. The Great Wall of China is visible from space. True or false? Humans use just 10% of their brains.