Nowadays the competitors at science fairs are pretty evenly split between boys and girls, both Ms. Bose and Ms. Shah said, and 9 of the 15 finalists in the Google Science Fair were boys.
It will just mean that our state will have one less competitor for the science and technology jobs in the future".
The Wednesday at 10 p.m. time slot will be an even more interesting battle beginning next week, when new episodes of the two crime franchises make their debuts, along with a third competitor, ABC's science-fiction series "Invasion".
"The idea is that that will take on the very top end of the scientific publishing industry, a visible high-profile competitor to Nature and Science," said Walport.
Or, without any "journalistic" intervention, this (by one of Narrative Science's competitors, Automated Insights) for the newswire AP: "Apple Inc (AAPL) on Tuesday reported fiscal first-quarter net income of $18.02bn.
Even if an individual company did the basic science, their competitors would likely not buy-in.
In consequence, although biobanks are costly and may take many years to mature to full value, they should not be viewed as competitors to hypothesis-based science.
But there is concern that the UK is cutting its science spending when competitor nations are increasing theirs.
Science's close competitor Nature commissioned its own analysis after questions arose about the validity of the paper it published by Hwang on the first cloned dog.
Each fraction eluted from the affinity gel, using elution buffer containing HA peptide (Roche Applied Science) as binding competitor to displace the bound proteins, was analyzed by SDS-PAGE, and scFvG2/p17 or scFvE2/p17 detected by Western blotting, using anti-HA tag antibody, as described below.
With our international competitors increasing their investment in science and engineering, this would be the worst possible time to lower our own ambitions – it could take decades to rebuild our technological base to its world-class status".
