Scientists' ideas about humanity's past are particularly prone to change, sometimes coming full circle.
"We are just an extension of the scientists' ideas," Mr. Lafler said.
For the SRC, this collaboration is a chance to see its scientists' ideas in action and to solve real problems in the real world.
Following controversies over Smart Meters in the Netherlands, medical data in the UK and genetically modified crops throughout the continent, European policymakers now know that members of the public will not necessarily share scientists' ideas of a desirable future.
Carey et al. ([1989]) asked seventh graders a series of questions about the goals and practices of science and about the relationships between scientists' ideas, experiments, and data.
The technique is still in its early stages, with just a handful of showers characterized so far, so the results aren't reshaping scientists' ideas about thunderstorms yet.
Because mosses are considered the closest relatives of Earth's earliest land plants, the findings could broaden scientists' ideas about how plant life arose and evolved.
This enables students to traverse into the culture of science, encounter scientists, their stories, and scientific evidence and explore similarities and differences between scientists' ideas and ways of thinking and their own.
Level 2 Children understood that models involve both the selection and omission of features, but emphasis remained on the models themselves rather than on the scientists' ideas behind the model.
Throughout the birth and the 4-year existence of the ERC, scientists' ideas on how to run a funding agency for creative frontier science have clashed with the European Commission's (EC's) rules for managing an international bureaucracy.
