It is quite effective in creating Science and Technology awareness, helps to foster creativity and integrate the study of science with reading, writing, music, art and the performing arts.
The trouble for them, however, is that every reputable study -- headed by the most exhaustive of them all, the 1997 National Academy of Science study -- finds that the economic benefits of immigration are very small, fractions of a penny for each dollar of national income, with the largest share of those benefits captured by the immigrants themselves.
While the media and the professorate pilloried their reports, the group's charges caused the Council for Higher Education to form a blue ribbon committee last November comprised of seven political scientists - three from Israel and four from abroad -- to conduct a study of all of the political science departments in Israeli universities.
This has certainly been an interesting year for the study of Neanderthals in science.
FORBES: Archaeologists Find Neanderthal Dwelling Made from Mammoth Bones
The study and science of architecture has therefore been around for thousands and thousands of years.
He set up the charity with the specific intention of getting children from disadvantaged backgrounds into universities to study the Stem subjects of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths.
While some improvements have been made since that first image of pentacene, lead author of the Science study, Leo Gross, told BBC News that the new work was mostly down to a choice of subject.
BBC: Atomic bond types discernible in single-molecule images
The discover section of the site provides an insight into the science behind the study of Leonardo's work, including explanations and images of infra-red, ultra-violet and my favourite, the "computed axial tomography" of some of da Vinci's work.
The results were surprising, and may be disappointing for people who believe mothers and fathers should share equally in the caregiving for their children, said Sarah Schoppe-Sullivan, co-author of the study and associate professor of human development and family science at Ohio State University.
FORBES: Dad's Off The Hook? Study Says Fathers Should Be A Little Less Involved In Parenting
Until now, the study of the human genome has been the field of esoteric science and outsized egos.
In May Dr Cardis and her colleagues published a validation study in the Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology.
The corset helps reduce extreme spinal twisting that occurs when a golfer swings, according to a small study in the Journal of Sports Science and Medicine.
In that case, it could potentially boost exports from the current 3 billion litres to as much as 200 billion litres by 2025, according to a study commissioned by the Ministry of Science and Technology.
ECONOMIST: America and its neighbours discover a common interest
The essence of the scientific method is reproducing precisely the methods and patient cohort of the original study, something most of us learn in 9th grade science.
Compared to controls, the rats also showed increased sensitivity to stress and produced more of a stress hormone, in a study published in May in a Public Library of Science journal, PLoS One.
"Junior had wanted to donate his brain to science to the study of concussive injuries, " he told CNN affiliate KGTV of San Diego.
Forest fires burning in Canada's Northwest Territories in 1995 contributed to high levels of carbon monoxide more than 2, 000 miles away in the eastern United States, according to a study in today's issue of Science.
Over the years these have included polo, competitive horse carriage driving (a sport in which he has represented Britain) science, the study of UFOs, practical jokes, painting and taking the wheel of his own London taxi.
He decided to go back to school to study political science at the University of Wyoming, and 12 years later at the age of 34 Cheney became the youngest person to hold the position of White House chief of staff in the Gerald Ford administration.
Back in 2010, 1500 Facebook users were polled in a University of Colorado study conducted through Twitter by PhD Computer Science and Information Systems student Christopher Sibona, where he focused on the repercussions of unfriending someone on Facebook.
Mr Watanabe arrived at the University of Glasgow in 1885 to study Engineering Sciences and graduated with a Civil Engineering and Bachelor of Science degree.
BBC: NEWS | UK | Scotland | Glasgow, Lanarkshire and West | Rail bridge builder on ?20 notes
"I think we're close to the point where, instead of a dietitian saying, 'Eat less fat, eat more fruits and vegetables, ' they could figure out what foods you do or don't like with a survey or genetic test, " says John Hayes, a professor of food science at Penn State and lead author of a 2010 study showing supertasters' preference for salt.
DeCode's research has broad implications because this is one of the first drugs to emerge from the newfangled science of genomics, the large-scale study of disease-causing genes.
Only then did she catch the computing bug, enrolling in 1986 at the University of California at Berkeley to study computer science.
Durrell's Head of Conservation Science Dr Richard Young has been at the forefront of the study and subsequent efforts to conserve these creatures.
The results of their study, which are about to be published in Psychological Science, show that both the students' assessments of the leadership potential of the bosses and their ratings for the traits of competence, dominance and facial maturity were significantly related to a company's profits.
Following up on my earlier post about the (urgent) need of religious leaders and theologians to study science.
In a recent study (published in the journal Public Library of Science One) seven pairs of subjects controlled virtual avatars.
The ongoing study is like the science-y version of the "7-Up" documentary series -- with researchers checking in on the lives of the subjects at several-year intervals.
应用推荐