|
Home > News > Tags > scientists
|
|
30
Stories about: scientists |
|
|
This editorial has been a long time coming. It's been so long since I wanted to do a piece on the relationships and interactions that determine our perception of what's really going on around us, especially in science. For this purpose, I will be looking at four actors and four different types of truth, whi... |
28 April 2012
09:01 GMT |
 |
|
An official press release on the Stanford University website announces that renowned scientist and laser technology pioneer Anthony Siegman died on October 7, 2011, at the age of 79. His work became critically important to this field of research even in the 1960s, when not that much was known about lasers. Some of hi... |
17 October 2011
03:31 GMT |
|
|
According to the interesting conclusions of a new investigation conducted by experts at the Rice University, it would appear that as few as 15 percent of all scientists based at major research universities tend to perceive religion and science as mutually exclusive, and always in conflict.
What these results indi... |
21 September 2011
14:21 GMT |
|
|
Starting from the hypothesis that humankind wants to live better and longer, a Stanford biologist says that scientists need to become more involved in the life of the community. They need to get down from their ivory tower, and become advocates of the results their studies are developing.The meaning of most advanced ... |
12 August 2011
05:41 GMT |
|
|
The newest field of research to catch on roots in the international scientific community deals with examining research and knowledge themselves. In other words, its goal is to obtain more knowledge about knowledge. This concept is called metaknowledge.It is very similar to metacognition, the process through which we ... |
11 February 2011
05:53 GMT |
|
|
According to a new study presented by a panel of scientists this month, it would appear that representing science in Hollywood blockbuster films might make for an efficient way of inspiring the next generation of physicists, mathematicians, IT experts and biologists to pick up science. The panel that made the present... |
29 December 2010
11:09 GMT |
|
|
The way people report themselves to scientists and experts in various fields is largely dependent on the values the individuals themselves have, a new study shows, and has little to do with the actual qualifications the researchers have. Establishing who is an expert in a field and who is not is apparently a very tho... |
14 September 2010
05:29 GMT |
|
|
Experts have been conducting studies into how birds and their ecosystems evolve for a very long time, and they have for many years relied on observations by citizens to help them expand their databases.In the United States, collaborations between experts and bird watchers have been going on since at least the 1950, s... |
30 August 2010
06:59 GMT |
|
|
Soy-based wood adhesives should replace the currently used petroleum-based glues in the production of plywood and other woods products, thus avoiding the leaching toxic formaldehyde fumes.Everybody knows what tofu is, and if not, here is a simple explanation: tofu is a food of Chinese origin, made by coagulating soy ... |
30 August 2010
02:46 GMT |
|
|
With the release of the climate-related email stolen from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU), and the discovery of minor errors in a report produced by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), many critics to global warming believe they have uncovered some sort of co... |
20 February 2010
07:00 GMT |
|
|
For the first time ever, a scientific facility of the synchrotron-class is plagued with a clash of cultures. The researchers and scientists involved in the international project are in a row with members of the board and with lawyers. The differences stem from the different perspectives that the two groups have in mi... |
9 December 2009
17:01 GMT |
|
|
Two experts at the University of Illinois, Allen H. Renear and Carole L. Palmer, both professors of library and information science, announce that the long-awaited innovation in reading techniques, which has been promised since the 1980s, is finally about to take place. It mostly addresses people skimming through sci... |
19 August 2009
16:51 GMT |
|
|
Adam may seem like a dubious choice of name for the world's first robotic scientist, but maybe only because every new item of its class ever created is either called that or Eve, depending on the context. Nonetheless, it's the name that experts at the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (... |
3 April 2009
17:01 GMT |
|
|
The Texas State Board of Education has just recently come under increased pressure from science groups, which urge the authority to drop plans of introducing a new amendment in the state's learning programs, to question the proven principle that life descended from the same common ancestor. Because key officials... |
25 March 2009
05:07 GMT |
|
|
Over the past few years, a growing number of people with no expertise in any field of research has started contradicting scientists over even the smallest detail of their research, like they have any idea what they're talking about. Members of the international scientific community say that the situation is very... |
5 March 2009
04:00 GMT |
|
|
|
|
Find us on Google+
