Haphazardly constructed over 40 years, it was based on 1960s, slide-rule era science that the Army Corps of Engineers never bothered to update, even as sophisticated computer models became the norm in engineering circles.
President Lee Myung-bak praised what he called a "first step towards opening an era of space science in earnest".
It would be a very positive irony if this decade of economic depression should prove the era in which science at last broke the clammy grip of psychic depression.
It left only some very faint tracks of its enormous successes, to begin again around the XIV and the XV centuries when the Arab-Islamic science characterized the second scientific era that the Mediterranean has experienced.
The state of the ocean today should be the tipping point that wakes us up from the trance of consumption that we haven lulled into complacency with, and which sends us into a new era of material science, bio and ocean degradability, and new re-use technologies.
As we have watched digital technology emerge from their Jurassic era to life in science fiction, it is hard to imagine what comes next.
But, even in an era of sophisticated forensic science, definitive evidence can be elusive: in one case, the Serbs burned hundreds of corpses in a lead smelter.
The head is indubitably Cromwell's: though the provenance is a little cloudy in the early 18th century, it beggars belief that a fraudster of that era would be able to fool forensic science many years later.
With the new pope being himself a trained scientist -- Francis graduated as a chemical technician before moving on to study philosophy, psychology and theology -- the timing could be right for a new era of cooperation between the Vatican and science, building on the work of the STOQ Project -- Science, Theology and the Ontological Quest -- which was created by Pope John Paul II in 2003.
Since the era of Eratosthenes and Ptolemy, advances in science and mathematics have required data in excess of our ability to compute it readily.
And in our modern era there are more than a few groups of science-lovers that are unremittingly hostile to religion, often either intentionally or unintentionally lumping those sects that reject modern science with those that see its beauty.
Looking very much like the cover of a circa 1970 science fiction novel, the engraving is a pleasing dedication to the art of the era of space flight.
He said the UK needed to bring art and science back together, as it had in the "glory days of the Victorian era" when Lewis Carroll wrote one of the classic fairy tales, Alice in Wonderland, and was also a mathematics tutor at Oxford.
The faith in the future, the belief that science and technology would bring us a better world, is part of a more innocent era.
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She highlighted that humanity is living in an era of anthropocene and urged for collaboration and synergistic solutions, as well as a strengthened science-policy interface to solve the sustainability crisis that is currently being faced.
In correspondence, the new science passed back and forth through Europe, almost as fluidly as it does in the e-mail era.
Two recent studies caught my eye, because they highlight some actual good science in trying to adapt two longstanding, ancient practices Yoga and Tai Chi into the modern era so they can be used for practical medical purposes.
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