Liberty's 49% -owned Discovery has seven all-digital channels--such as Science, Kids and Wings--on DirecTV and digital systems.
Women are less likely to have degrees in growth-oriented fields such as science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).
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One study examined the first five years of NCLB and found that while more time was devoted for tested subjects, other subjects such as science and art were cut, on average by 30 minutes a day.
There would be less truth in that caricature if British graduates in disciplines such as science and engineering gained some familiarity with business as part of their studies (it is noteworthy that the best British universities discourage students from earning money while they learn, while at American ones most are obliged to).
His list of publications was truly impressive, both in terms of the content of the articles as well as its sheer number and the prestige of the journals in which it was published: dozens of articles in all the top psychology journals in academia with a number of them in famous general science outlets such as Science.
The question is whether the traditional educational profile of the journalist, J-schooled or not, can compete with the ingenuity of the technology companies, the knowledge of emerging expert media (such as Science-Based Medicine) or even the power of government as delineated in a fascinating report by Deloitte, to produce and disseminate not only information but also the tools to interpret that information.
Currently working with the National Science Foundation, Skild will be setting up competitions to drive innovation in several areas of science, such as: teaching science to kids and igniting their scientific creativity, communicating science journalism and creating public understanding between scientists and citizens, and approaching agricultural challenges in the developing world.
The United States has strong advantages in fields such as materials science, and high-tech start-ups in these areas can prosper.
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In order to ensure the consistency of work, UNESCO created an International Task Force whose members represent different disciplines such as information science, history, anthropology and musicology.
It is a low-cost enterprise: The partners and their 13 employees scour trade shows, trade journals and sidewalk newsstands--their magazine sources include mainstream offerings such as Popular Science--for new inventions.
The key: He'd put a science agency, such as the National Science Foundation, in charge of deciding whether a given project qualified, and leave IRS auditors to track paper, making sure, for example, the salaries and expenses supposedly devoted to research really were.
But we just need to create more of those opportunities and more of those businesses, find more of those entrepreneurs and teach kids not just to play a game, but how to build it so that they grow up wanting to get into key fields such as computer science.
Sir Mark Walport, the director of Wellcome Trust, said that his organisation is in the final stages of launching a high calibre scientific journal called eLife that would compete directly with top-tier publications such as Nature and Science, seen by scientists as the premier locations for publishing.
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And students looking for places on sought-after courses such as medicine and veterinary science see advanced maths as a way to stand out.
Entrepreneurship should be a required course in every school around the world, alongside traditional subjects such as math, science and language.
Opponents may say that a focus on behavioral skills will detract from the teaching of core competencies such as math and science.
STM, which now exists in dozens of variants, is a vital research tool in such fields as materials science, nanotechnology and microbiology.
These comparisons draw upon tests that are taken every three or four years, in areas such as maths, science and literacy - and so present a picture lagging by several years.
It published its results not in a major scientific journal such as Nature or Science, but in an obscure online journal called e-biomed: The Journal of Regenerative Medicine, which many leading medical scientists don't read.
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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.
With the addition of the 3D printers, the school's geological minds are now rubbing elbows with people from fields such as biology, computer science and even art.
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Dr Coker also plans to use her award to communicate her research to a wider audience through such events as the Cheltenham Science Festival and encourage the next generation of scientists.
Over the years advances in forensic science such as fingerprint, ballistics, and especially DNA testing have allowed for many cases to be solved just by re-examining the old evidence.
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Prominent researchers from the STP community question why, when the government has invested considerable amounts of money into research and innovation, an applications-based science such as solar-terrestrial physics has been one of the first to be cut.
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On the other hand, scientists such as climatologist and NASA Science Team leader Dr. Roy Spencer, meteorologist Anthony Watts, and Past President of the American Association of State Climatologists Dr. Patrick Michaels have vigorously explained why global warming will, if anything, reduce the frequency and strength of tornadoes.
The Isle of Man branch of the ATL said the move will help to boost recruitment in specialist areas such as maths, English and science.
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But these have been targeted at specific areas of science, such as graphene research, nanotechnology and space, thought to be important to the growth of UK economy.
To qualify the candidates will need a good understanding of computer science concepts such as algorithms, logic, data networks and the internet, according to the Department for Education.
"We're all interested in the collection and application of personal data and its consequences for individual rights and social science concepts such as trust and discrimination, " said Dr Ball.
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Studio9732 will also push beyond image and offer new technological visions such as biomimicry, a new science that looks to nature and its processes, models, etc to solve human problems.
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