Soapbox Science, the initiative championing women in science, returns this summer to present the wonder of science to the masses.

UNESCO: Women in Science take to their Soapboxes

The commercial made us remember the wonder of science fiction, the films made us wonder what had become of science fiction.

FORBES: Re-Imagining Star Wars

But one has to wonder, at what point does the sacrifice cease to have any value for the advancement of science and simply become the pursuit of hardship for its own sake?

WSJ: Mars One and the Scientific Embrace of Suffering

Some biotech entrepreneurs wonder if big firms with interests in both agricultural biotechnology and conventional pesticides could ever be persuasive advocates of the new science that their smaller peers are developing, since it could well undermine sales of their most popular chemicals.

ECONOMIST: Biotechnology