At Christmas time it's tickets for Robin Ince's scientific stand-up show Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People that are like gold dust, while millions tune in to see the recordings of those scientific pantomimes, the Christmas Lectures, being performed at the Royal Institution.
The Obama administration is trying to have it both ways on the "morning after" pill, and by doing so is taking a firm anti-scientific stand for irrationality.
The lists of scientific mysteries stand as much as a testament to the discipline itself as to its inadequacy to deal with them: science has helped to elucidate where the difficulties lie and, so far, it has also been science that has addressed them.
Picower was a longtime prominent philanthropist; a lot of causes, especially in the scientific community, stand to gain.
If candidates take radically different positions on human-caused climate change, students should know that and where the overwhelming majority of scientists and international scientific organizations stand.
Scientific representations stand for entities and phenomena in the natural world.
Neither technical nor scientific barriers stand in the way of responding to this global call to action.
Within the United Kingdom, Edinburgh and Glasgow stood out for their unexpectedly high contributions to the guidelines' scientific base.
Scientific explanation stands in contrast to the wisdom of divinity and experience and common sense.
"After the scientific world stood up, the right decision has finally been taken," says Michele De Luca, director of the Centre for Regenerative Medicine "Stefano Ferrari" in Modena, Italy.
The U.S. scientific community stands to lose one of its staunchest congressional supporters and occasional harshest critic after Representative Frank Wolf (R-VA) announced today that he is retiring from Congress at the end of 2014.
