The Big Bang Fair is the UK's largest single celebration of science and engineering for young people and its aim is to inspire our next
generation of scientists by bringing the classroom to life.
For decades, popular culture and shows like Star Trek inspired
a generation of scientists by envisioning what space might look like.
Not exact matches
Universities are jumping on the data trend and attempting to alleviate the talent squeeze
by introducing programs to train a new
generation of data
scientists.
In a statement, President Obama said
of the astronaut and public servant, «John always had the right stuff, inspiring
generations of scientists, engineers and astronauts who will take us to Mars and beyond — not just to visit, but to stay... The last
of America's first astronauts has left us, but propelled
by their example we know that our future here on Earth compels us to keep reaching for the heavens.
It is a longing never mentioned, I might add,
by the
generation of aspiring
scientists and not at all the same as a desire simply for more time on earth.
«If the UK is to be confident
of producing the next
generation of scientists, then schools - encouraged
by the government - must overcome the perceived and real barriers to providing high quality practicals, fieldwork and fieldtrips.»
«Companies can inspire the next
generations of scientists and engineers
by spending time in today's classrooms,» said Staff
Scientist Mwita Phelps, Life Technologies / Thermo Fisher Scientific.
Stephen Hawking, a black hole whisperer who divined the secrets
of the universe's most inscrutable objects, left a legacy
of cosmological puzzles sparked
by his work, and inspired a
generation of scientists who grew up reading his books.
Schäfer is also vice-chair
of the Young Academy
of Europe (a pan-European, grassroots association
of top young
scientists) and chair
of Sci -
GENERATION (another pan-European, bottom - up platform for young
scientists supported
by the intergovernmental framework for European Cooperation in Science and Technology).
The
scientists decided to make a parody
of a trailer for a Star Wars movie, but instead
of showing starship cruisers hurtling through space towards the Death Star, they chose a biological process with its own built - in narrative: the fertilization
of an egg
by a sperm, in which millions
of sperm race to be the one that succeeds and creates the next
generation of life.
The fundamental unity
of science training and science scholarship does not relieve research
scientists — their labs teeming with graduate students and postdocs supported
by stipends paid from research grants — or their host institutions, or the funding organizations,
of the responsibility to take training the next
generation of scientists very, very seriously.
But the focus
of the HHMI Professors program is not on research, per se; rather, the program aims to enhance the development
of the next
generation of biomedical
scientists by drawing them into research and related activities at an early age.
«The Population Bomb,» a controversial book
by environmental
scientist Paul Ehrlich predicting widespread starvation as a result
of population growth, turned off a
generation of thinkers, in part
by being wrong (at least in the short term) and in part
by seeming anti-human, continuing a tradition that stretches back to the «Dismal Theorem»
of Thomas Malthus.
Buoyed
by an allocation
of $ 1.25 billion in funding for reactor research from the 2005 Energy Policy Act, INL
scientists are working to improve safety, boost efficiency, minimize waste, and decrease cost in a new
generation of nuclear reactors.
In 2012, we reported on plans
by pharmaceutical giant Hoffmann - La Roche to close its Nutley research center, which for more than 80 years provided thousands
of jobs to
generations of scientists and other local residents.
«I was fascinated
by the tales
of that
generation of scientist and what they did going into the field,» Saphire recalls.
Our
scientists who track progress in genetics research funded
by NIH's National Institute
of General Medical Sciences share some
of the things researchers have learned about how traits are passed from one
generation to the next.
Moving «is a key career decision that can potentially play an important role in the
generation of scientific knowledge
by allowing
scientists [to] find environments where they are more effective in doing their research,» writes Ina Ganguli, an assistant professor
of economics at the University
of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a co-author on the paper, in an email to Science Careers.
As a graduate student, he confirmed that this talent also existed in a population
of foxes that, through artificial selection over
generations, had been domesticated
by Russian
scientist Dmitry Belyaev.
Many
of the folks who are involved in building the last round
of nuclear weapons or even the first round
of nuclear weapons are either passing away or retiring or otherwise their knowledge is becoming inaccessible; and
of course there are records, but there is, as many physicists who I interviewed said, «There is nothing like learning
by doing and if we want to maintain the ability to build nuclear weapons for the indefinite future, then some argue that we need to continue to build them to train up this next
generation of potential nuclear weapon
scientists.»
Scientists figured out more than a decade ago how to make this specialized form
of light through a process known as «high harmonic
generation,» or HHG, which shifts laser light to much shorter wavelengths and shorter pulses
by shining it through a cloud
of gas.
First, you must recognize that the current structure
of medical schools and universities, with their anachronistic, rigid «up or out» promotion and tenure systems, were designed to accommodate the male physician -
scientist of earlier
generations whose career ambitions were supported
by stay - at - home wives who assumed all household and child - rearing responsibilities.
This feeling, I suggest, may be the same as the
scientist's in his eureka moment, when what he has discovered
by seeing past the seen to the unseen has the character
of appearing as «an impersonal product
of his
generation.»
The awards ceremony at the National Museum
of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. sought to help change the face
of science
by hailing the contributions
of women
scientists and propelling the next
generation forward with five individual research grants
of $ 60,000 each.
Other such trees likely hold «secrets yet to be discovered
by a new
generation of scientists,» they write — if current researchers can get to the trees before they disappear.
Most
of them were careful to point out that the revolutionary claim from the
scientists involved in the experiment, which used the BICEP2 telescope (for Background Imaging
of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization, second
generation), must be confirmed
by additional experiments that could rule out alternative explanations.
Maclennan's question said it all: «Is the minister aware that the government's announcement will be treated with dismay
by all the
scientists in Britain, and especially
by my constituents at Dounreay and in Risley, who have worked for almost two
generations to put Britain at the lead
of this technology?»
Invented in 1884
by Charles A. Parsons, son
of an aristocrat and
scientist, it revolutionized shipping and the
generation of electric power.
The public began to take notice, and a new
generation of scientists became fascinated
by dinosaurs.
William Castell, chair
of the Wellcome Trust, praised Farrar in a statement as «one
of the foremost
scientists of his
generation, whose work — much
of it funded
by the Trust — has contributed to better understanding, surveillance, prevention and treatment
of diseases including emerging infections, influenza, tuberculosis, typhoid and dengue.»
Some
scientists suspect that immune cells activated
by the foreign organ but lacking the CD154 signal die soon after a transplant, although it's not clear why new
generations of immune cells wouldn't recognize and attack the tissue.
Some
scientists questioned the team's evidence for the mended gene, partly because they hadn't shown that it was inherited
by subsequent
generations of cells.
Future
generations of females may be at risk, too, according to a new animal study
by Washington State University
scientists.
The Japanese government's Science and Technology Agency wants Japanese and Russian
scientists to collaborate on the development
of a new
generation of reactors fuelled
by plutonium.
Focused both on discovery and on mentoring future
generations of researchers, Salk
scientists make groundbreaking contributions to our understanding
of cancer, aging, Alzheimer's, diabetes and infectious diseases
by studying neuroscience, genetics, cell and plant biology and related disciplines.
Research conducted
by scientists with the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station at the University
of New Hampshire finds that appearance alone is not enough to identify these hybrid zone birds: there is no single, intermediate «phenotype» or physical appearance common to all
of the first -
generation hybrids found.
The College's capacity to meet the need for a new
generation of highly skilled
scientists will be greatly bolstered
by the addition
of the Science & Engineering Innovation & Research Building, a $ 125 million structure which will span 229,000 square feet and will be located directly south
of the Life Sciences Building.
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden released this statement: «Leonard Nimoy was an inspiration to multiple
generations of engineers,
scientists, astronauts, and other space explorers... As Mr. Spock, he made science and technology important to the story, while never failing to show,
by example, that it is the people around us who matter most.
The Keck Visiting Scholars Program aims to inspire and develop the next
generation of scientists and instrumentalists
by providing hands - on experience in observational astronomy, hardware, and software involving active instrument operations and real - time problem solving.
What we didn't realize is that our work could be so profoundly inspiring to a young
generation of scientists — one eleven - year - old passenger pigeon enthusiast and de-extinctionist to be exact, who was so excited
by the idea
of de-extinction that he published a novel in 2015 on the subject.
April 27, 2016 — Using our Brains and Art to Inspire a Future
Generation of Scientists (Co-hosted
by the Congressional Neuroscience Caucus & STEAM Caucus)
An unwanted side - effect
of a standard treatment for advanced melanoma could be overcome
by a new
generation of anti-cancer compounds,
scientists at the Olivia Newton - John Cancer Research Institute (ONJCRI) in Melbourne have found.
In the 1960s, groundbreaking experiments
by David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel and other «mapmakers
of the mind» inspired a
generation of scientists to explore brain function at the cellular level.
His far - sighted vision for genomics means he leaves behind a global field firmly founded on the principles
of open access and a
generation of scientists influenced
by his actions and values.
Scientists are betting on the creation
of extended genome that can be inherited
by successive
generations.
But after talking to them, I realised that there was nothing to be intimidated
by because the laureates were there to talk to young
scientists like myself to spread ideas and to inspire the next
generation of scientists.
In a new paper published online today in Nature Chemistry («On - surface
generation and imaging
of arynes
by atomic force microscopy»),
scientists from IBM Research and CIQUS at the University
of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, have confirmed the existence and characterized the structure
of arynes, a family
of highly - reactive short - lived molecules which was first suggested 113 years ago.
In 2016, he was appointed
by the U-M Board
of Regents to guide the health system as it delivers complex patient care, researches new medical innovations and trains the next
generation of physicians and
scientists.
Neutrinos, or more specifically antineutrinos, are also emitted as a
by - product
of power
generation in manmade nuclear reactors, giving
scientists a powerful way to study them on Earth in a controlled manner.
Scientists in Japan wanted to see if the jellyfish gene was inherited
by the second
generation of a genetically modified monkey.