The next explosion comes from Tim Noakes, the Discovery Health Chair of Exercise and Sport Science from the University of Capetown in a commentary ( Role of hydration in health and exercise) in which his take can succinctly be summarized as, if you get thirsty you should drink and that over-hydration is a much more common and dangerous risk to the athlete than dehydration.
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The statistician Stephen Stigler once wrote an elegant essay about the futility of the practice of eponymy in science that is, the practice of naming a scientific discovery after its inventor.
The discovery would appear to resolve a longstanding mystery in planetary science: why the walnut-shaped Iapetus has a two-tone complexion, with one side of the moon significantly darker than the other.
The UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe, Venice (Italy), is associated with the Open Discovery Space (ODS) project, funded by the European Commission under the CIP ICT-PSP call 5, and kicked off in Athens in April 2012, resulting of the collaboration between 51 organizations from 23 countries, with the aim to create a socially-powered, multilingual open learning infrastructure to boost the adaptation of eLearning Resources in Europe.
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 ).
Space Shuttle Discovery blasted into orbit yesterday with a Japanese science lab the size of a school bus in tow.
We chatted about his taking the helm of the Enterprise NX-01 and launching his own voyage of discovery about the world of Star Trek, science fictions fans and his own creative work in the process.
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That's important in a sector where the science base is strong, notably with Dundee University's drug discovery, but it's proving tough to get scale and momentum in the private sector.
Yet the science of climate change has seemed to be derailed by climategate and the discovery of some errors in IPCC reports, even the gravest of which come far short of undermining its conclusions.
At the time of Higgs' discovery, observers were especially interested in the possibility that this mysterious particle didn't decay in exactly the way science had predicted.
While the convergence of science and commercial interests is laudable, the erosion of industry support in the pursuit of scientific discovery for its own sake is worrisome.
Hands-on DNA workshops are being run by 15 science and discovery centres and museums across the UK, each acting as a specialist hub for schools in their region.
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