M. G. Lord, the author of a memoir, "Astro Turf," on growing up in the aerospace culture in California, suggested that these findings contributed to a growing awareness that our bodies are far more fragile than science fiction writers thought when they concocted wide-ranging colonization scenarios.
So far, though, the fine chemical industry has not been successful in translating petrochemical catalysis to the more complex and fragile life science molecules, and is now looking for new catalysis methodologies, additional to biocatalysis.
I hope other disciplines follow this lead, because if researchers can't find a way to break free from the shackles placed on them by the current system, the fragile relationship between science and society – already frayed by episodes like the University of East Anglia email scandal – may disintegrate entirely.
Mr. Thernstrom cautioned against interpreting basic constitutional principals "on fragile, small-scale social science".
For example, Barbara Engelhardt, an assistant professor of computer science, used the Fragile Families Challenge in her undergraduate machine learning class.
Traditional and current use of numeric data in physical science is often fragile as it is not expressed semantically.
Mas-Colell argues that the Spanish science system "is fragile," and the nation cannot afford to slide backward during a period of financial cutbacks.
The most important breakthroughs the ones that change the course of science, business, or history are fragile.
"The best theory in the history of science" was far more fragile and challenged by DNA evidence than he could ever have imagined.
Still, the film nicely captures the grad-student vibe: beer-fueled bull sessions about science, religion, probability and destiny; fragile, self-absorbed egos preening even as confidence wavers.
