SUNLIGHT streamed through narrow windows onto the clusters of scientists, dressed in styles that ranged from wool jackets and dark slacks to chinos or jeans and button-down shirts, who were eating lunch the other day at the Brookhaven National Laboratory cafeteria.
These were state-created clusters of scientists working on technologies that could help it compete with the West, especially in the field of nuclear weapons and space exploration.
This month, the mountain was taken up as a symbol of eco-alarmism by a cluster of scientists and anti-regulation groups.
A relatively cool year and a harsh winter in North America and Europe have not helped, inspiring some commentators and a small cluster of scientists to make skeptical remarks about "global cooling".
Harrison suggested that he check out UW, which had a cluster of scientists studying aging and age-related diseases, including pathologist George Martin (who is also editor-in-chief of SAGE KE).
By observing multiple collisions between huge clusters of galaxies, scientists have witnessed dark matter coasting straight through the turmoil.
To demonstrate the research possibilities of commercial clusters to scientists working in academia, in late 2011 Cycle Computing, announced the BigScience Challenge, a competition that sought "the runts, the misfits, the crazy ideas that are normally too big or too expensive to ask, but might, just might, help humanity," according to the company's Web site.
"Our intention is to create an environment with a biotechnology and medical cluster," Mr. Simone said, "a cluster where lots of scientists can work and study everything from ideas to research".
Senator Hatch, whose pro-life credentials are every bit as strong as the president's, concluded that the tiny clusters of cells that scientists use in laboratory experiments cannot be equated with human life.
Florida argues that there is an identifiable cluster of occupations (scientist, architect, academic, artist) that, taken together, constitute something called the Super-Creative Core.
Until now, picosecond speeds have largely been the province of an elite group of scientists clustered at the nation's weapons laboratories.
