But government does have the ability to spark innovation, to support the research, the scientific discovery, that has always led to breakthroughs and new products.
The poll is being run by the Seti Institute in California and Dr Mark Showalter, who led the scientific team behind the discovery of P4 and P5.
This part of the product is basic engineering, not scientific discovery like the CIGS process.
The basic discoveries then lead either directly or after a while to applications, but the driver behind the discovery is basic scientific curiosity, but not a desire to solve a particular medical or social problem.
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.
"The pace of scientific discovery has been phenomenal, " Martin says.
The point I want to make is that the discovery itself was scientific method.
The exhibition, which will be open for at least six months, traces the story of Richard's short reign (he was only king from 1483 to 1485), as well as the archaeological and scientific procedures that led to the discovery of his skeleton.
As a result, what starts off unpromisingly as the tarted-up travelogue of a privileged island-hopper turns into a journey of scientific discovery to the corners of the earth.
Anybody in the scientific community will tell you that anybody who wants to lead the world in scientific exploration and discovery has to do flagships every once in a while.
Among historians of capitalism and technology, the process of engineering--a method of repeatable creation derived from the 17th-century discovery and exploitation of the scientific method--gets much of the credit for our world.
We invited students from a lot of your states and they showcased projects that covered the full range of scientific discovery.
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But although such claims are frightening, and the more so the more distant the memory of the disease, they should be subjected to the same rigorous scrutiny as any other apparent scientific discovery especially by the reviewers and editors of influential journals.
In the nineteen-sixties, the sociologist Robert K. Merton wrote a famous essay on scientific discovery in which he raised the question of what the existence of multiples tells us about genius.
In 2003 the scientific and popular press were both filled with the discovery of a similar arrangement on the Indonesian island of Flores.
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.
After all, if any radical new technology works, he says, a savvy inventor ought to skip the media and publish the details of their discovery in a credible scientific journal to establish that he, or she, made the breakthrough first.
Change comes when we live up to our legacy of innovation, and make America home to the next generation of manufacturing, scientific discovery, technological breakthroughs.
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Historically, scientific discovery has been the driving engine of healthcare.
The key to meeting these challenges -- to improving our health and well-being, to harnessing clean energy, to protecting our security, and succeeding in the global economy -- will be reaffirming and strengthening America's role as the world's engine of scientific discovery and technological innovation.
She says the discovery of DNA was the first big scientific breakthrough that altered the way contemporary crime novels were structured.
While the scientific babble may not mean much to you, the long and short of it is that this discovery could "lead to further breakthroughs in invisibility cloaks, which could hide objects from the human eye" and make escaping your troubles quite a bit easier.
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The discovery of the pine in 1994 caused a scientific sensation, and prompted the Australian government to protect the site where it was growing.
Some revolutionaries were slighted by the scientific establishments of their time--like Rosalind Franklin's exclusion from sharing in the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the structure of DNA. Described by her peers as a "genius, " she exposed herself to massive amounts of radiation to try to get the best possible X-ray photograph of a strand of DNA, dying of cancer at 37.
Like natural selection and germs, the discovery of cancer stem cells illustrates how the most fruitful scientific findings are often not those of individual experiments, however intriguing, but those that organise knowledge into theory.
The very act of pursuing answers to basic scientific questions about cell receptors opened new doors to discovery and innovation.
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Freely available data from the US Government is an important national resource, serving as fuel for entrepreneurship, innovation, scientific discovery, and other public benefits.
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Stefansson and Harper both say that their intent is to leave DeCode as it is, and to continue to allow it to publish its discoveries in scientific journals while giving Amgen access to the people doing the research to help speed its drug discovery efforts.
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In 1981, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported the first cases of AIDS. Since that initial discovery, the U.S. government has led a global response based on scientific research sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other U.S. government agencies.
Whatever the outcome of the Discovery competition - and there will be many bids from other mission hopefuls - Dr Lorenz believes the scientific case for going to Titan is compelling, and he envisages the orangey moon becoming a popular destination in the decades ahead.
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