SCIENCE popularity and SCIENCE trends

cylonlover writes "Last year, NASA revealed it was evaluating three potential 'tractor beam' technologies to deliver planetary or atmospheric particles to a robotic rover or orbiting spacecraft. At the time, the third of these, which involved the use of a Bessel beam, only existed on paper. Researchers at Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) have now proven the theor...

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Nearly a decade after they last saved the earth from aliens, the Men in Black are back - and critics seem pretty okay with that. The science fiction sequel earned a 66 percent "fresh" rating, according to the critic aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. That's a far higher number than those received by recent box office duds "Dark Shadows" and "Battleship." At the very least, ...

Uasa congratulated Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor and her team for securing South Africa as a location for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope.

Two recent papers about the domestication of dogs take different approaches: one is data-rich, solid science, the other more speculative and inconclusive, seeking to prompt thought.

NEW YORK -- The Hayden Planetarium at Manhattan's Natural History Museum has been home to many famous hosts over the last decade. Tom Hanks, Liam Neeson, Harrison Ford and Robert Redford have all voiced space-related video presentations within the planetarium's dome. They don't usually show up in person; you might have a hard time getting anyone to pay attention to the space lesson directly abo...

The University of Missouri Press, founded in 1958, will close up shop, university system President Timothy M. Wolfe announced Thursday. In its 54 years in operation, it has published approximately 2,000 titles. The University of Missouri Press has published books on the topics of American and world history; intellectual history; biography; journalism; African American studies; women's studie...

It's no wonder that fish stocks around the world are plummeting. Up to 25% of the global catch comes from illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing. Now, science has stepped in to offer a new method to identify contraband fish. A €4 million pan-European project, launched in 2008 and called FishPopTrace, has devised a much-anticipated way to differentiate marine populations of the same specie...

Es klingt wie Science Fiction, ist aber Realität: Forscher haben einer gelähmten Frau einen Chip ins Gehirn eingesetzt und mit einem Roboterarm verbunden. Die Frau hat den Arm mit ihren Gedanken gesteuert.

At an Intel science fair held in Pittsburgh last week, 1,500 of the brightest young minds from all over the world demonstrated that world-beating ingenuity is not the sole preserve of the experts

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – President Barack Obama took up Mitt Romney’s tag line on foreign policy on Wednesday and told graduates at the Air Force Academy that he envisions another “American Century.” “I firmly believe that if we rise to this moment in history, if we meet our responsibilities, then—just like the 20th century—the 21st will be another great American Century,” he said during the ...

New research shows that the brain's visual perception system automatically and unconsciously guides decision-making through valence perception. The findings offer important insights into consumer behavior in ways that traditional consumer marketing focus groups cannot address. For example, asking individuals to react to package designs, ads or logos is ineffective. Instead, companies can use th...

As you may already be aware from my previous posts, The Guardian U.S. and NYU’s Studio 20 journalism lab have teamed up to push a project called The Citizens’ Agenda into the media discourse surrounding the U.S. presidential 2012 election. The idea: find out what you–the citizens–want the candidates to be discussing over the next [...]

The week in science: Canada shuts down influential lakes research site; France’s science minister appointed; and commercial spaceflight firm SpaceX launches its Dragon capsule to the International Space Station.

University scores highest in 16 out of 47 subjects, with Oxford placed second and LSE leapfrogging St Andrews into third• Click here to see the full league tableCambridge has topped the Guardian University Guide league table for the second year running, while Oxford has come second and the London School of Economics has climbed a place to third.St Andrews, rated third last year, is now in fourt...

He was one of the most influential science fiction writers of the 20th century, but few people consider him a thinker. That would be a mistake.

Otro pasito más en la lucha contra el cáncer. Un grupo de investigadores del Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Bellvitge, coordinado por Ethel Queralt, ha descubierto el mecanismo que permite a la proteína Zds1 poder regular un proceso clave en la mitosis o división celular. Este descubrimiento, publicado en la web del Journal of Cell Science, abre una nueva vía para desarrollar terapias ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- In a story May 16 about the space shuttle Endeavour, The Associated Press reported erroneously the name of the museum that will house the shuttle. It's the California Science Center, not California Science Museum....

Crime, National Health Insurance and a shortage of maths and science graduates are pushing graduate professionals to consider emigration.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Argentine artist Tomas Saraceno combines art, architecture and science in a striking installation on the rooftop garden of The Metropolitan Museum of Art that gives visitors a...

Rupert Murdoch did not ask Margaret Thatcher to bend the rules to allow him to buy the Times of London in 1981, one of his lawyers said today, dismissing theories of a deal as "science fiction".

(Reuters) - Yahoo Inc Chief Executive Scott Thompson is stepping down after a controversy over a fake computer science college degree on his biography, the third CEO to leave the company in three years, according to a source familiar with the situation.

KARACHI  - Prof Dr Attaur Rahman, former minster for science and technology, has been elected by of Bilim Akademisi, the Science Academy, Turkey (TUBA), as a Foreign Honorary Member of TUBA. A Karachi University statement said here on Sunday that an official letter was issued to Dr Atta by TUBA Chairman M Ali Alpar.

PENSACOLA NAVAL AIR STATION, Fla. (AP) -- The panicked voice came into Ambition's air traffic control room - one of the aircraft carrier's young pilots was in trouble....

SEATTLE — And the winners are ... ... a science teacher from New Jersey and a mom from Florida! That’s right — Beth Topinka of Manalapen, N.J., and Karen Blutcher of St. Augustine, Fla., are the two lucky ladies who, along with their husbands, won an all-expenses-paid trip to Los Angeles to have dinner Thursday with President Obama and actor George Clooney. Read full article >>

The Institute for Science and International Security said satellite imagery showed activity that may be related to cleaning at a suspected explosives testing chamber.

President Barack Obama visited Albany Tuesday, where he met with Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo as they toured a high-tech research center at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering at the University of Albany. They chatted up students and employees who showed off 450-millimeter wafers they said would be the future of chip making.

Professeur émérite en science politique à l'université de Lille Nord de France, Christian-Marie Wallon-Leducqhistoires liéesPrendre l´air ou faire des affaires, flâner ou marchander : les brocantes de ce mardi 8 maiUn monument aux morts rend hommage à une famille tsigane, déportée à AuschwitzLes racines du nouveau président sont à PlouvainBoulogne, port de pêche « hollandais »Trois questions qu...

The best returns are often from schools with strong engineering, computer science, economics and natural-science programs, say experts.

Nicht erst das Ergebnis, sondern bereits der Prozess von Forschung sollte öffentlich sein, sagt Christian Spannagel. Der Didaktiker findet, Forscher müssen Kritik suchen.

A review from Oregon Health & Science University found breastfeeding rates actually dropped after the use of dummies was limited at Doernbecher Children's Hospital.

According to Newtonian physics, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. This law seems to hold true as well in the dismal science of economics, and in the even more dismal occult art form known as financial forecasting where great expectations lead invariably and inevitably to equally great – and often equally illogical and unfounded – disappointments. Like the hemlines of women’s skir...

That the Ministry of Education gave its endorsement to the South University of Science and Technology of China as a State-approved institution of higher learning seems to have removed the question mark that was hanging over its status. But it raises the question of whether the university will be able to blaze a new trail for the reform of China's institutions of higher learning as intended.

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Der Medienkonzern Bertelsmann will investieren. Zu den möglichen Kandidaten zählt auch der Wissenschaftsverlag Springer Science, verriet Bertelsmann-Chef Thomas Rabe.

In a public interview with Technology Review's Jason Pontin, the best-selling author talked about the obstacles faced by real emerging technologies. Speaking before a packed lecture theater at MIT yesterday, Neal Stephenson worried that the gloomy outlook prevalent in modern science fiction may be undermining the genre's ability to inspire engineers and scientists. Describing himself as a "pess...

ISLAMABAD – Delegates from various developing countries are gathering in Islamabad on April 16 for the 2nd Commission Meeting of COMSATS (Commission on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South). The commission is the highest forum of COMSATS, with membership of the heads of 21 member states/governments. Hosted by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST), ...

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THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND Baltimore County has received national acclaim for its success in preparing African Americans for careers in science, technology, engineering and math. The credit is deserved for the university and its charismatic president, Freeman Hrabowski III. But the attention has masked other significant accomplishments at an institution that combines the best of a major researc...

Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor is disappointed at the delay of the announcement of whether SA would host the Square Kilometre Array.

Ähnlich beengten Mega-Städten sind auch Ameisenkolonien einem hohen Infektionsrisiko ausgesetzt. Die Insekten stellen sich Krankheiten aber gemeinsam - und bekämpfen sie damit höchst wirkungsvoll, wie jetzt eine Forschergruppe am Institute of Science and Technology (IST) Austria in Klosterneuburg in einer Studie mit Pilzsporen herausgefunden hat.

Two controversial research papers into the H5N1 bird flu virus are set to be published in full after US government advisers accepted there was no security risk in making the science public.

A few days ago Dan Nexon went on a pretty epic rant filled with mixed emotions about the increased professionalization of Ph.D. programs in political science.  Well, not professionalization in general, but rather the tilt of current professionalization trends towards the mathematical.  To be clear, Nexon doesn't think this is an unalloyed bad, and would probably make the same recommendation I ...

Le 13 mars, le parlement a entendu deux personnalités mettant en cause la science climatique et le Giec. Provoquant l’émoi. Ce mardi, deux experts sont venus les contredire. ...lire la suite

Two big name pitchers -- well, big name to fantasy players and hardcore baseball fans, a group with a very overlapped Venn diagram -- will have to contend with more than just hitters this season. Stephen Strasburg and Matt Moore also will have to contend with innings limits. The Nationals have talked about keeping Strasburg at 160, while the Rays have been more circumspect about their expectati...

Nachdem über dem Institute of Science and Technology (IST) Austria das budgetäre Füllhorn ausgeschüttet wurde, verlangen nun Spitzenforscher auch für die Universitäten mehr finanzielle Unterstützung.

LONDON (AP) -- Medical research in the U.K. is being jeopardized by activists who have persuaded transport companies to stop importing mice, rats and rabbits for scientific experiments, a former British science minister says....

Review in a Hurry: Part western, part swashbuckler, and a huge part science fiction, Edgar Rice Burroughs' century-old story of a Confederate veteran turned warlord of Mars finally makes it to...

Schnell, schön, sparsam: Infiniti präsentiert auf dem Genfer Salon seinen ersten reinrassigen Sportwagen. Allerdings nur als Studie. Technisch ist der Zweisitzer aber alles andere als Science Fiction.Mehr zum ThemaRunter mit dem SalzVerkehrssicherheit - Alkoholtest für BusfahrerVW TSI-Motoren - Probleme mit der SteuerketteGenfer Autosalon 2012 - Die schönsten Auto-BeineVW Beetle - Neuer Einstie...

Why economics -- the dismal science -- is far too pessimistic when it comes to analyzing the amazing gains in poverty eradication.

Anorexia is a socially transmitted disorder and appears to be more prevalent in countries such as France where women are thinner than average, according to new research from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Bill Nye the Science Guy is dragging his ex-girlfriend back to court -- claiming she forced him to rack up $57,000 in attorney's fees by acting like a crazy stalker ... and is now refusing to pay the bill.According to the docs, it all started back…

STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (AP) -- Rick Santorum says President Barack Obama is pushing a radical environmental agenda that unwisely limits energy production and turns its back on science....

SPORTS FUNDING: HIGH PERFORMANCE GRANTSTHIS ONE is a hoary old chestnut. Money and grants and who gets how big a slice of the Irish Sports Council (ISC) pie. Yesterday, at the launch of the High Performance package by the Council the regular anomalies were, once again, apparent and there was probably room to quibble. But no one has ever claimed this was an exact science.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- It's a familiar tale: Science genius, smart girlfriend, her hot-shot brother, and a football-player-turned-accomplished-pilot travel to space, get bombarded by cosmic rays and come back a foursome with fantastic powers....

The minister for higher education in Britain has announced that the government is "inviting proposals for a new type of university with a focus on science and technology and on postgraduates."

Diagnose Nabelschnurbruch: Als der kleine Hayes Davis auf die Welt kam, wuchs aus seinem Bauch eine sackähnliche Wucherung. Darin waren seine Bauchorgane! Foto: UT Health Science Center at Houston

Canada would be served better if the government let science speak and the affected communities be heard

Reckitt 's new boss Rakesh Kapoor opens up the inner workings of one of his crown jewels – the research and development department that develops dishwashing product Finish.

Après consultation, vous êtes nombreux à estimer que l'arrivée de David Beckham au PSG n'est pas uniquement un coup marketing. Même à 36 ans, l'Anglais apportera beaucoup sportivement. Son expérience, son professionnalisme et sa science des coups de pied arrêtés seront des atouts de taille.

Blog post by TomSWAMPY: AT THE FLOODGATESSWAMPY: AT THE FLOODGATES  by Tom Estes for IM INTERNATIONALPresented by CREATIVE TIME in association with THE QUEENS MUSEUM OF ARTOn the 18th of December, 2011 a strange creature was spotted on the banks of the river Thames in London. TheCreature appeared out of nowhere, and climbed up from the mud flats and was last seen entering the ThamesBarrier Park...

No one was injured in the science experiment gone awry

Super heavyweight boxer Anthony Joshua believes "science behind the fists" has put Britain in perfect position to challenge for multiple medals.

A new exhibition at the Science Museum in London explores the rich history of robots throughout culture.

Tiger Woods has a new endorsement, with Fuse Science, a company that says it's breaking ground on nutrition and hydration techniques.

Das Kommitee zur Vergabe des Klimaschmocks fühlt sich ja oft alleingelassen bei der Bewältigung des zu sichtenden Materials. Präzise gut begründete Nominierungsvorschläge sind eher selten. Daher freut das Kommitee sich natürlich, wenn es mal so eine Spitzennominierung wie die des Monats November frei Haus geliefert bekommt. Vielen Dank an Science Skeptical Blog. Der verehrten Jury liegt als Be...

Southern Illinois University Carbondale finds itself among a smattering of campuses looking to shrink a longtime gender disparity.

The year 2010 turned out to be particularly eventful for Chinese science fiction writing. International attention was evident at the Frankfurt Book Fair, where French publishers and Japanese sci-fi magazines showed strong interest, the latter carrying special reports on the evolution of science fiction writing in China.