Though the web platform used during the open phase is built to facilitate interactions within the scientific community, face-to-face meetings and the efficiency of experts sitting together to discuss predefined topics are irreplaceable.
Space exploration is passé, and such luminaries as Charlie Stross delight in repeatedly "proving" that the only (straw people to still contemplate crewed space travel are deluded naifs who can't/won't parse scientific facts or face unpalatable limitations.
THE BIGGEST challenge that global scientific collaboration faces is dealing with technical secrets and issues of national security.
Furthermore, the Cooperative Research Centres Program linking industry and science loses AU$80 million and the Australian Research Council, which funds nonmedical scientific research, faces a chop of AU$74.9 million over 3 years.
Because the constructive empiricist does not identify the aim of science with whatever goals the majority of scientists may have, he denies that constructive empiricism is a thesis in sociology subject to the kind of empirical confirmation or disconfirmation any scientific thesis faces.
As he prepared to head to Washington, D.C., he took time to discuss with ScienceInsider his priorities for the next Congress, the need for more scientists in politics, and the challenges that the scientific enterprise faces on Capitol Hill including sequestration, the automatic budget cuts mandated by the Budget Control Act of 2011.
This year's celebration is especially meaningful given the numerous legislative threats that the scientific community faces and the lackluster level of government funding of scientific research.
The scientific community faces an ongoing challenge in the analysis of these rich data sources to more accurately characterize biological processes that have been perturbed at the mechanistic level.
Dr. Collins cannot be blamed for the unexpected scientific hurdles facing genetic research, but he played an important role in raising expectations impossibly high.
In an unusual scientific about-face, researchers at Northwestern University have found evidence that at least some men who identify themselves as bisexual are, in fact, sexually aroused by both women and men.
