This work was financially supported by National High-Tech Research and Develofment Program of China (2006AA02A308), Fudan Young Scientist Foundation (08FQ34) and National New Lecturer Foundation (200802461034).
One of the most ambitious projects to assess global environmental damage from the rapid consumption of natural resources was announced today by an unusual coalition of scientists, corporations, foundations and international agencies.
This biography illuminates the racial attitudes of an elite group of American scientists and foundation officers.
Ms. Cook, a lawyer, is a conflict mediator for the Postal Service in Washington and the executive director of the Committee of Concerned Scientists, a foundation in New York.
As well as financing academic scientists, the foundation also provides venture capital to biotech firms that are willing to take on the tricky task of finding a drug to treat the underlying genetic defect of the disease, not just treat its symptoms.
I have doubts that social scientists, scholars, foundation executives, impact investors and government managers are ever going to be happy.
"Deepfakes" - manipulated digital videos that overlay another person's face onto a body or change what people actually said - pose a growing threat, argues Katja Bego, data scientist at innovation foundation, Nesta.
With his scientist-populated Foundation, Asimov became one of the first writers to theorize that atomic power would revolutionize society.
There, with help from the Rockefeller and Ford foundations, scientists in the 1960s crossed rice varieties and, by using herbicides and inorganic fertilisers, more than doubled rice yields.
