Appearing this week in a superb Blu-ray edition from the Criterion Collection (a standard definition version is available as well), "Bigger Than Life" is a therapeutic melodrama of the sort popular through the 1950s, in which medical science steps in to cure the spiritual as well as physical ills of the central character.
The Royal Society, another premier authority on science, stepped up to the plate May 18, declining to support its brethren and in what appears to be a political and strategic maneuver re-released a negative review of a controversial August 1998 study that questions gene food safety.
In the past two decades, social sciences stepped into the debate, whilst transport planners and experts are more aware of the soft side of travelling and the weaknesses of the "predict and provide" model.
If scientists did not take the security concerns seriously, he said, politicians and policy makers with little understanding of science would step in with "blanket restrictions on science, not knowing what's sensitive and what's not sensitive".
Two days ago, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced that Steven Koonin, undersecretary for science, would step down on 18 November.
Now, physicists have added two more particles to the list and, with that, have taken science a step closer to unraveling the mystery of just what the universe is made of.
This is a plea for medicine and science to step in.
We are grateful to have the National Math and Science Initiative step up to the challenge of making sure that students from military families get the education they deserve.
The work in mice brings science a step closer to the larger endeavor of mapping the nearly 100 billion neurons in the human brain -- a goal supported by the BRAIN initiative for which President Barack Obama allocated $100 million one year ago.
A specialist in water science who stepped down as president of the Pacific Institute as a result of the controversy, Gleick had persuaded the Heartland to pass him information about its policies and procedures by posing as a board member.
Able women who left academic science or stepped off the corporate ladder tell her they wanted something different from life, and insist discrimination had little to do with it.
