Surprising observations from NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft raise questions about the radial extent of the heliosheath the heated outer shell of our sun's sphere of influence leading scientists to believe the intrepid probe is closer to interstellar space than they thought.
Blomkvist, meanwhile, bored and treading water at Millennium, is drawn into the sphere of a Swedish scientist, one Professor Balder, a world authority on artificial intelligence.
Science and ethics are not separate spheres, but inseparable parts of scientists' practical, everyday lived experience.
On Friday, at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union here, the same group of scientists reported finding tiny glass spheres about one-thousandth of an inch in diameter in the same layer of rock in Antarctica.
The fullerenes, particularly the highly symmetrical C60 sphere, have a beauty and elegance that excites the imagination of scientists and nonscientists alike, as they bridge aesthetic gaps between the sciences, architecture, mathematics, engineering, and the visual arts.
These activities offered an initial opportunity to bridge the siloed spheres of academic research scientists and program manager-practitioners, for just as these two diseases gain strength through their interaction, so too must those engaged in their control.
But this has only infuriated its critics, who believe the prize is a not-too-subtle attempt to inveigle respectable scientists into the sphere of religion.
In 2002, the KamLAND collaboration, a group of scientists in Japan and the United States, used a large sphere filled with scintillating fluid buried underneath mountains near Toyama, Japan, to spot a shortfall of the particles (ScienceNOW, 6 December 2002).
Outreach had not been high on our agendas until recently but this is changing rapidly with a large number of scientists writing and engaging more actively in the public sphere.
Explanations of natural events are the proper purview of scientists, while explications of the meaning and value of action may be the proper sphere of historians and philosophers.
