If you work in fields like politics, soldiering, science or technology, areas that frequently send new words bubbling up into the mainstream, it can seem strange to hear a normal day's vocabulary talked about as if it were a novelty.
This character, Dr. Gustaf Sondelius, is the novel's "soldier of science".
Instead, Mr. Putin emphasized that without better weaponry and more combat training, Russia's armed forces risked turning into a glorified military school where soldiers learned the science of fighting without picking up the skills.
Several of the debris teams include environmental engineers and soldiers schooled in the science of explosives.
Last month, the scientific research wing of Canada's Department of National Defense posted a contract to a government tendering website asking for private sector partners ready to create a healing tool for Canadian soldiers using the controversial science.
Even women who soldier though demanding computer science and engineering programs in college don't subsequently create tech start-ups on a par with their male counterparts.
Science-minded soldiers and sailors must be comfortable with military life: conforming to strict rules, codes, and honor systems, and being ready to participate in combat missions if necessary.
Cyber-wars fought by cyber-soldiers might sound like science fiction, but military forces around the world have come to accept it as a fifth battle front, alongside sea, air, land and space.
During the Song era, military drills and training were studied as a science, while elite soldiers were allocated different responsibilities based on examinations of their skills in weaponry and athletic ability.
Their wives, or mothers, often face immediate decisions about how long to keep them on life support, whether to amputate a shattered leg, or whether to donate the body to medical science if the soldier dies.
