Mackay has weeded out middle managers so more scientists are doing science, and decision makers interact directly with them.
Popularisation, in a narrow sense, is part of science because the whole point of doing science is to tell other people all about it.
Careful observation of the Hindu Kush-Himalayas region, an area where climate change could bring major impacts to people, have been relatively scanty, due to the difficulty of doing science in remote areas, compounded by political disagreements.
There is a big problem, not so much about the number of people doing science, as the fact that it has got very skewed towards particular areas of science, such as IT and biology, and we are losing out on people doing some of the harder subjects such as physics and chemistry.
Burton is a firm believer in the myth that vaccines cause autism, and he arrogantly holds the position that he knows the truth better than the thousands of scientists who have spent much of the past decade doing real science that proves him wrong.
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According to Norah Rudin, a forensic-DNA consultant in Mountain View, California, forensic scientists are beginning to accept that cognitive bias exists, but there is still a lot of resistance to the idea, because examiners take the criticism personally and feel they are being accused of doing bad science.
Doing responsible social science is hard.
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Curiosity mission planner Dawn Sumner said photographs like the ones beamed back by the rover, as well as others taken by probes in orbit, will be used to map a path to the mountain's base -- "doing the best science we can along the way, but also keeping our eyes on that beautiful layered rock, " she said.
But it certainly is doing lots of novel science, including testing a vaccine for the biggest killer of children worldwide and e xotic new gene therapy.
"What we are doing is the basic science to design these things, like how big should items be, and how they can stop interfering with each other, " explained Professor Brewster.
And so we wanted to come here to highlight the great work that you guys are doing in math and science and engineering, because we want the kind of success that we're seeing at this school spread all across the country.
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One last thing, you say that America lags in science and that we are doing our children a diservice by teaching creationism.
Send a clear message to our daughters, which I'm doing every night: Math, science, nothing wrong with it, a lot right with it.
It sounds fantastic, but they're missing out on some of the basic science and exploration Nasa should be doing.
Their expedition is a great compliment to the work we are doing to bring together a collaborative team of science, technology, innovation, policy and education.
So some of the new regulatory science policy work that FDA is doing could be hard hit, even if FDA is able to continue to keep pace with its day-to-day review function.
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But having sports and other extracurricular activities available to students makes school a place that is more than drudgery, and perhaps generates a little more enthusiasm for math and science during the day, knowing doing well allows students the privilege of playing basketball after school.
He firmly believed in science and felt strongly that he was doing a job which was absolutely right for him.
In the face of these attacks, scientists are doing more to speak out, forming a Climate Science Rapid Response Team to connect scientists with journalists and a Climate Science Legal Defense Fund to help scientists defray legal costs.
First, the international comparison of standards in maths and science (TIMSS) showed that England is indeed doing very well.
We live in a world, however, where anyone who tries to explain what the science suggests is likely to happen if we keep doing nothing is attacked as an alarmist by conservatives, disinformers, and their enablers in the media.
Unlike most high-school science fair participants, they seem unaware that the point of doing experiments is to identify what actually works.
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In doing it, he is giving physicists a taste of a kind of science that has become commonplace in the biotechnology industry.
"Now we can go back and do what we have been doing so well, and over-invest with coaches, staffing, sports science, the whole thing, " he said.
His interests in science and technology started at least since he was 11, when he began doing hands-on lab research, working on biofuels research to create ethanol.
"The problem is not coming up with good ideas about what to do about obesity, it's about actually doing them, " said Margo Wootan, director of nutrition policy for the Center for Science in the Public Interest, which has advocated for stronger nutritional standards in marketing and school lunch programs.
There are clearly hard issues of science and engineering at work here, but there seems little question that BP should be doing everything it can to fix the problem.
It is a room for Mr. Rubin's son, age 15, to prepare his science presentation, or for Mr. Rubin to read while the rest of the family is doing homework or watching television.
Basically, lots of smart people doing cool stuff, who happen to be deeply committed to making the world a more informed place through data science expertise and experimentation.
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