He beat off competition from around 200 other young people to win the top science prize and was presented with his award by the UK Business Secretary, Lord Mandelson.
Three top NASA science advisors resigned this week, two were asked to step down by NASA's administrator.
Today, we are launching the "Educate to Innovate" campaign, a nationwide effort to help reach the goal this administration has set: moving to the top in science and math education in the next decade.
The performance of Massachusetts was much more successful than the US average - and was at a level that would put it among top performing science and maths countries such as Singapore, South Korea, Hong Kong and Japan.
England's pupils were placed in the top 10 for science and maths.
As a result, the U.S. increasingly looks like a top-notch science fair to companies hoping to get into this slow-moving, but potentially massive, market.
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While some top-tier science was presented at the conference, there was too much time given to claims of cure that had little to support them but patient testimonials, small studies with no long-term follow-up, and, to be blunt, some science that has nothing but the backing of a single very optimistic scientist looking to attract a grant or an investor.
One assessment shows American fifteen year olds no longer even near the top in math and science when compared to their peers around the world.
Daniel Rader of the University of Pennsylvania, one of the world's top experts on the science of cholesterol, says a laser-like focus on LDL-lowering has been one reason deaths from cardiovascular disease are dropping.
His work has been published in Nature and Science, the top scientific journals.
But he said even computer science graduates of top universities have trouble finding a job, so the courses aren't a priority at Lanxiang.
And that's why I'm committed to moving our country from the middle to the top of the pack in science and math education over the next decade.
And that's why my administration has set a clear goal: to move from the middle to the top of the pack in science and math education over the next decade.
Other things equal, any nation would rather be in the top ranks of math and science than back in the pack with its young goofing off or not having the means to an education.
It turns out that jobs in health care, business and computer science rise to the top.
We use to be at the top in terms of math and science performance.
Based in Pasadena, CA, the California Institute of Technology is one of the top universities in the world for science and engineering.
And while we provide students from around the world visas to get engineering and computer science degrees at our top universities, our laws discourage them from using those skills to start a business or power a new industry right here in the United States.
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Furthermore, although these days more women take science degrees, few of them stay in science and get to the top.
In our first ever effort to track their passions and pursuits, it came out on top ahead of art, sports or science.
"The thing that limits us is hiring the world's best engineers, " he says, noting that 60 percent of the students at the top U.S. computer-science departments are foreign-born.
It is not difficult to notice the paucity of women in science, especially at the top of the career ladder, and the lack of recognition for the work that women scientists do.
That's why we launched the "Educate to Innovate" campaign -- a nationwide effort by citizens, non-for-profits, universities, and companies from across America to help us move to the top of the pack in math and science education.
In an article Michel and Lieberman Aiden published in the January 14 2011 issue of Science, one of the top research journals, they used a database of 4% of all the books ever printed between 1800 and 2000 to show how grammar, censorship practices, and the rate at which new technologies are adopted over time.
The studies reveal that Asian countries continue to dominate the top of the global tables in maths, science and reading.
Apparently, quite a few of his best students drop computer science at A-level because top universities are still sniffy about it.
Today, Science Magazine, one of the top scientific journals and the original publisher of the GFAJ-1 work, is publishing two new papers that completely demolish the argument that GFAJ-1 is a completely new form of life.
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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Overall English pupils achieved scores in line with the international average for maths in the 2003 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), with the top 10% of pupils' results comparable with those from some high achieving East Asian countries.
But this week they lay out the top-level conclusion in a short article in the journal Science.
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