Like a boy scientist, Mr. Lukas keeps wondering where this or that improbable process might lead.
He's Roy Miller, a C.I.A. agent who pulls an innocent woman, June Havens Cameron Diazz), into a scheme to protect a Gyro Gearloose-type boy scientist (Paul Dano).
(17 October) Tim Burton's monochrome cartoon spins the story of little Sparky, a nice dog who grows old, dies and is later re-animated – like Frankenstein's monster – by an intrepid boy scientist.
As he sits and fiddles with the capsule, which looks like a small part from the space shuttle, it is easy to imagine him as the boy scientist who, as he recalls, took everything apart to figure out how it worked and often could not put it back together.
In the 76 years from his birth in 1879 in Ulm, Germany, to his death in 1955 in Princeton, N.J., he went from rebellious prodigal youth to the bad-boy scientist in Bern, cosmic guru, peacenik, atomic prophet, Jewish hero, civil rights crusader and target of J. Edgar Hoover.
The boy, the scientists said, was indeed Louis XVII, the 10-year-old uncrowned king of France, and not an impostor placed there so the young dauphin could escape into exile.
In an attempt to help ease her son's grief, the boy's scientist mother gives him a robot who appears, in many ways, to be just like Simon.
Using cells from patients with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a genetic disease that affects one in 5,000 boys, UCLA scientists have devised a strategy for creating "corrected" stem cells that could restore tissue under attack by the deadly muscle-wasting disorder.
Pumps run all day to drain the pond, where Mr. Lozier fished and skated as a boy, so that scientists and volunteers can crawl through the mud, looking for more mastodon bones.
That does not mean boys make better scientists than girls, however.' This is backed by university statistics.
