Mountain View, California (CNN) -- At this moment we have reached a major turning point for both science and the public at large.
Jim Green, director of Nasa's planetary science division in Washington DC, said the extended mission would allow the science community and the public to continue to share in "unlocking Saturn's secrets".
There are cases where the science is clear and the public believes: Cigarette smoking.
"The food companies paid because they had the ability to, " said Mike Hughes, vice president and director of the Center for Science and Public Policy at Keystone.
And third, science requires a partnership between the public and private sectors.
And while modern drug research labs can speed up and systematize many steps, "there's still a very large element of mystery in the discovery process, " says John Swen, vice president for science policy and public affairs for the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer.
And while modern drug research labs can speed up and systematize many steps, "there's still a very large element of mystery in the discovery process, " says John Swen, vice president for science policy and public affairs for the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ).
Just recently, the Chicago Tribune exposed a concerted effort by some chemical companies to use dirty tricks and junk science to mislead the public about the dangers of their products.
For a third of a century he and his Center for Science in the Public Interest have been preaching to America's consumers, and to the food manufactures who feed their addictions, to repent.
But I think it does re-emphasise that there is a failing to get scientific messages over to the public, whether it's in medicine or other branches of science, and there's a scepticism amongst the public which I think has never been there about science before.
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Today, Eli Broad and his wife, Edythe, are devoted to philanthropy as founders of The Broad Foundations, which they established to advance entrepreneurship for the public good in education, science and the arts.
He has written several popular science books, including The Selfish Gene and holds the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford.
The findings, reported in papers published by Nature and the Public Library of Science, were based on samples from 242 healthy volunteers in the U.S., from such sites as the mouth, nose, skin, intestine and vagina.
Called Climategate Revisited, the programme examined the impact of the ensuing controversy about the conduct of climate science on public opinion, media reporting and the scientific community.
Dr. Anne Schuchat, interim deputy director for science and public health for the agency, said 13 people are hospitalized.
The film showcases the views of both sides in the debate, according to Schiller, who wanted to fairly represent the point of view of creationists who teach science in the public schools and colleges.
The U.S. has also committed to giving Mexico 400, 000 doses of the antiviral drug Tamiflu, a shipment believed to have arrived Friday morning, said Dr. Anne Schuchat, interim deputy director for science and public health at the CDC.
"When I was first Minister of Science and Innovation there was an initiative called the 'public understanding of science', " he explained.
As described in the journal The Public Library of Science, Evans and his colleagues created the "marathon mice" by modifying the PPAR delta gene and these furry runners provide powerful clues as to how the PPAR delta gene actually works.
Given the difficulty of the science and the extensive confusion surrounding what gets the greatest currency in the public discussion, what are the prospects that the FCC can clarify the issue?
These leaders came together at the invitation of the White House Offices of Public Engagement and Science and Technology Policy, and the Level Playing Field Institute, for the first Tech Inclusion Summit.
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In the U.S., debates about science and religion in the classroom tend to focus on American public high schools, where local school boards argue about Darwin and the Bible.
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RWM's members have left in the past year, alleging that the committee was focusing on public relations at the expense of hard science and wasting time on outlandish options such as firing waste into space.
With all its flaws, publication in mainstream peer-reviewed journals is the best mechanism science has yet devised for ensuring that the findings and conclusions reaching the public ear remain above a certain quality threshold.
Participants will include representatives from the Archaeology Section of the Culture Preservation and Promotion Division at the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, the National Library, the Central Library and the Department of History of Tribhuwan University, the Hope 1 Library, the Keishar Library, the Dilliraman Library, Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya, the Nepal Folklore Society, Martin Chautari, Social Science Baha, the Kathmandu Valley Public Library, Gorkhapatra and Kantipur publications, photo.circle, private collectors and individual photographers.
Development of the software was supported with funding from several public and private universities and the National Science Foundation.
The work was subsequently published in Science and Nature after the NSABB concluded that the benefits of making it public outweighed the risks.
Organized under the patronage of UNESCO, the XIIth International Conference on the Public Communication of Science and Technology in Florence (Italy) on 18-20 April drew 670 participants from five continents and gave rise to a staggering 450 presentations.
While there is no universally accepted minimum response rate for publication of surveys in social science and health research, the American Association for Public Opinion Research asked journals about this issue and found that 60-80% response range is acceptable, while one journal said that below 20% is just too low.
The science of happiness is a growing field, with demand from both the public and industry for insights into emotional wellbeing.
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