McAuliffe won, and Steyer declared that "denying basic science is over".
There is increased concern since 2011 that science is over-sensationalised by the media, that journalists don't check their facts before publishing and that politicians lack credibility when discussing science.
"The days of captive breeding of listed species for any purposes except science and conservation are over," Environment Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk said.
It is striking that in an open selection process, with selection panels largely composed of non-scientists, science graduates are over-represented among individuals identified as Australia's future leaders.
Now that the first World Science Festival is over, there's an obvious question for Lab readers: Should this become an annual tradition in New York?
White says that high culture and science are battling over a shared ground, and that the gain of one means the retreat of the other.
Typical new faculty members in biomedical science are well over 35 when they're hired, largely because they have spent so long in postdoc holding patterns.
In the intervening centuries, Professor Wilson said, science was taken over by specialists.
May 27 2015 May 31 201515 With the advent of the Internet, mobile phones, apps, and robots that can write prose and the prospect of self-driving cars, science is taking over our lives.
Bill Gossman, formerly the CEO of the online advertising service Audience Science, is taking over as CEO of Hi5.
