The episode details Dr. Otto Octavius as a laboratory incident caused by the Green Goblin merges special mechanical tentacles to his skin and turns him from a timid and weak scientist into the villain Dr. Octopus.
In settings with weak capacity scientists can help a step further, but scientists should not become advocates.
Because their interaction with other objects is so weak, many scientists believed solar neutrinos would be impossible to count.
Its gravity is so weak that scientists working on the Philae lander had to take account of the fact that even the slightest movement on the craft – say, adjusting a camera to look left or right – could be enough to lift it off the surface.
Scientists want to find out what this stuff is, but it's made up of stuff so weak – probably something scientists call weakly interacting massive particles, or WIMPs – that they've never been able to detect it.
"It's a curious point that I've made in all my books," Dr. Griffin once said, "that in the face of very weak evidence we scientists tend to make very strong, negative statements: no animal does this, animals can't do that and so on, when we really don't know.
However, on very rare occasions, it is thought that dark matter particles do bump into regular matter - and it is this weak interaction that scientists are hoping to see.
Although within their own disciplines, the statistical, social science, medical, and terrestrial ecology literatures are replete with accounts of the widespread misapplication and misuse of statistical testing and interpretation, awareness of these issues is weak among marine scientists who are not statisticians, but whose work is nonetheless situated within the expanse of marine ecology.
Based on case studies about the Novartis campus in Basel, Switzerland, we propose some design principles for laboratory and office workspace to support the strong and weak ties of scientist networks.
