Stuyvesant and Bronx Science, ranked Nos. 1 and 2 by the P.S.A.L., each dominated its recent borough championship races.
"Computer science ranked the highest, at 85%, and biochemistry was the lowest, at 69%," he says.
Researchers will be watching the 2 February budget rollout carefully, to see where science ranks in the White House's priorities.
As a result of all this critical analysis and self-scrutiny, science ranks quite high in polls of professions the public trusts.
In work that Science ranked as a runner-up for Breakthrough of the Year, researchers used structural biology the study of the molecules of life to design the key ingredient of a vaccine against a dangerous childhood disease.
UK science ranks highly compared to the rest of the world in terms of papers and citations, yet according to the government's 2002 spending review, until recently Britons have had less in the way of patenting and spinout activity than some major European competitors.
On this there is near unanimous agreement, for 97percentt of voters in a recent poll making sure American students receive a world-class education in math and science ranked second only to fixing the nation's financial health.
Speculative sciences rank highest (DOS 203) and among them metaphysics.
In the 2006 study, Brazil had some of the lowest scores for sciences, ranked with Indonesia and Tunisia.
