That continuing spirit of innovation should provide some cause for optimism that we can find ways of turning world-class science into world-beating businesses.
But what always impresses me about Cambridge is the sense that all kinds of bridges are now being built between world-class science in the university and the commercial world.
Transport yourself from the biased world of peer-reviewed science to the biased world of amateur climatology on the Internet.
Interval training has helped usher in a brave new world of science-based fitness.
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Kepler made further inroads in supercomputing, as Oak Ridge National Laboratory announced that it had completed Titan, the world's fastest open-science supercomputer.
As surprising as this is may be to many laymen, such rigor is now in retreat in the billion-dollar world of Big Science.
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Also in Texas, id Software founder John Carmack--the man who brought the world the Doom gaming franchise--has taught himself rocket science and is pushing his own space venture, Armadillo Aerospace.
"He was not a professionally trained astronomer and yet did professional quality work, particularly when it came to mapping the Moon in the 1950s - I think every astronomer in the world owes something to Patrick Moore, " said ex-BBC science correspondent and fellow astronomer Dr David Whitehouse .
More than 120 students from Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates will participate in the Intel Science Competition - Arab World 2012 on 16-19 December at the Dubai World Trade Centre, United Arab Emirates.
The TechGirls and the American students had meaningful discussions, sharing their enthusiasm for science and technology and experiences in science fairs around the world -- after just a couple of hours together, they walked out of the room promising to stay in touch and continue the conversation.
At the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and other botanic gardens around the world, our plant scientists and horticulturists are working towards effective, science-based conservation solutions to ensure that we leave a healthy and hopeful world to the next generation.
Today, cities across the world -- including Moscow, Tokyo, London, Houston, even a South Pole science station -- are celebrating the anniversary.
Darwin's theory - of random mutation followed by natural selection according to environmental suitability - changed science, changed the world.
For from Newton and Darwin to Edison and Einstein, from Alan Turing to Steve Jobs, we have led the world in our commitment to science and cutting-edge research, the discovery of new medicines and technologies.
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"We're on a moving boat and we don't have too much space to manoeuvre, to let the helicopter land, so it can be quite dangerous, " Dr Acevedo-Whitehouse told the BBC World Service's Science In Action programme.
Two-thirds of social science journals in the world are published in the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Germany.
The Electronic Arts-owned game studio is utilizing Kinect for Xbox 360 to allow gamers to speak to characters within the game world as they journey through the new science fiction role-playing game.
Metamaterials are proving to be quite useful for toying with the electromagnetic spectrum, whether for technology previously thought to be the stuff of science fiction, or for boring real-world applications.
The potential of Kew and botanic gardens to provide science-based practical solutions to many of the world's problems has never been greater.
The country with the world's second-biggest economy has never invested in a big global science project before.
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Lana, who just finished a five-year forensic science degree, had been backpacking around the world when the tsunami hit.
Dr. William W. Fox, Jr. is currently Vice President of Fisheries at World Wildlife Fund, a non-profit charity dedicated to global conservation through science-based solutions.
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The algae, known as Symbiodinium, is part of a group of creatures known as dinoflagellates, which are responsible for processing one-third of all CO2 in the world's oceans, reports Science Daily.
While the main themes and the discussion around them will focus on the economic, speakers and thinkers from the world of science, technology and even the arts will also be Davos-bound.
While such technology still faces numerous hurdles, the capability to use it for purposes once relegated to science fiction have already been proven in a real-world context, most recently by Carnegie Mellon University researchers in 2011.
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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.
Fortunately, Japan's Science and Technology Agency has beavered away at this most first-world of problems with its Universal Earphones Project.
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It will be widely used in a variety of computational science fields where it is expected to contribute to the generation of world-class research results.
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Cutting-edge science tells us that these ways of interpreting and analyzing the world around us can become habitual and that it is these habits of mind that make us who we are.
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