Because our spatial instincts follow a few simple rules, scientists who use "space syntax analyses" are able to envision how a place will be used before it exists.
Through the study of chaos and the emergence of complexity from simple systems, scientists are on the brink of unravelling the origins of human life itself and gaining an insight into how life may have evolved on worlds beyond our solar system.
Their chat was fuelled by a simple realisation: scientists would soon start amassing more genetic information than they could afford to store.
To give just a simple example, scientists do not need to observe sub-atomic particles directly to conclude that they exist; rather, they confirm their existence (and much more about their particular properties) by checking their hypotheses about them against predicted, observable patterns of physical data.
Modeled after similar systems used by various other U.S. and international fisheries, the idea is simple: Government scientists, using a combination of historical catch data and trawl surveys, determine the size of a fish population and how much of it can be sustainably caught.
Because so much is known about the poliovirus and because it has a very simple structure, scientists continue to use the poliovirus as a model to study virus behavior.
Using RNA, which does its job outside the nucleus, is much simpler, but scientists long thought that RNA was too unstable to be used as a vaccine.
(Obama, meanwhile, joked during his remarks that "presumably my life would be simpler" if scientists could map the brain. "It could explain all kinds of things that go on in Washington. We could prescribe something").. Despite their concerns, many of the researchers who laid the foundation for BRAIN are simply happy to see at least part of their idea being realized.
As program officer at the National Science Foundation NSF Office of International Science and Engineeringng, Elizabeth Lyons's objective is simple: to help scientists, especially NSF-funded scientists, do more and better science.
