Flying in the face of intuition, scientists have created a coating material that is water-loving when dry but repels water once wet.
Moreover, the bottom position of the squat is the stance used by many hunter gatherer societies and young children to excrete solid waste, which flies in the face of exercise scientists' commonly held notion that going low in a squat can be detrimental to the knees.
As the seminar turned to other subjects, I could see the frustration on the face of the scientist I had been addressing.
The faces and voices of scientists are grotesquely stilled and replicated: Richard Dawkins is a particular target as he expounds the machine nature of life.
The political transformation needed to prepare the US for a warming world seemed impossibly distant, years or even decades distant, in the face of a problem scientists warn could be out of control by then.
The problem is becoming particularly acute as a growing pool of scientists face a shrinking pot of money, both from drying stimulus funds scheduled to disappear this September and 2.9-percent budget cuts forced on the N.S.F. through sequestration.
"If my ancestors could keep the volcano from harming us, why shouldn't that be possible today?" The turn to tradition is unsurprising in the face of the inability of scientists to answer the question uppermost in everyone's minds.
When given the chance to talk, Gates wasted no time making two points: U.S. companies face "a severe shortage" of scientists and engineers, and the federal government "doesn't invest enough in basic research".
The face of the US scientist is changing: Asian Americans now make up 14percentt of the science and engineering work force, according to recent data from the National Science Foundation (NSF), which can be found at www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind08.
[C6.] SKILLED WORKERS NEEDED Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, told Congress that America faces an acute shortage of scientists and engineers.
