Sentences with phrase «big science effort»

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The post-Naylor Report effort to get big new investments in fundamental science is in trouble.

With a lack of Champions League football to go with the inability to compete financially with the League's big - spenders, it certainly is not rocket science to figure out that making every possible effort to hold on to these players is Arsenal's best chance to avoid spiraling down into mid-table obscurity.

One of Rep. Chris Collins» first major legislative efforts took a big step forward, as the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology approved his bill establishing a grant program that aims to fund innovations being created at the nation's universities, research institutes and laboratories.

It is time we put our efforts back into «big» science to enthuse the next generation.

In the biggest replication effort so far, «[i] n a report published in Science in August, 270 psychologists orchestrated a repeat of 100 studies published in three top journals.»

The biggest example of that effort was the establishment of a program called NExSS, or the Nexus for Exoplanet System Science.

Big efforts in science don't always pay off.

Stone highlighted the planned construction, beginning in 2018, of the Iranian Light Source Facility (ILSF), which would be the country's first synchrotron and its «biggest basic science project ever,» as «a testament to the country's determination to do science in spite of turmoil, political interference, and the viselike grip of economic sanctions imposed by the United States and its allies to block Iran's suspected effort to develop nuclear weapons.

Appearing today before the Senate commerce committee as the nominee for associate director for science in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Wieman was asked if NASA should play a bigger role in the federal effort to raise student achievement and produce a better - trained worscience in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Wieman was asked if NASA should play a bigger role in the federal effort to raise student achievement and produce a better - trained worScience and Technology Policy, Wieman was asked if NASA should play a bigger role in the federal effort to raise student achievement and produce a better - trained workforce.

In an effort to spur big science discoveries, the U.S. government and private groups have started offering cash prizes.

In an effort to minimize injury and let carpenters focus on design and other bigger - picture tasks, a team from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) has created AutoSaw, a system that lets you customize different items that can then be constructed with the help of robots.

Last week, leaders of these massive, multi-institution projects and others around the world met at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, to discuss an even loftier goal: a global neuroscience collaboration that would link their efforts and rival big science investments in astronomy and physics.

A major satellite program would remain roughly on track, and one climate science effort would get a big boost.

«Once again, the combination of great milk — thanks to the efforts of our animal sciences students — and ice cream manufacturing expertise from students in the School of Food Science, has brought home the Big Scoop,» said Kris Johnson, interim chair of animal sciences.

One landmark example is the major effort to tackle common challenges in the era of big data: the Helix Nebula project, for instance, brought together three EIROforum partners — CERN, ESA and EMBL — along with private data service providers to deliver cloud computing services for science.

The biggest shiver down my back came from the reinforcement that incredible advancements in science can be discovered with little effort and high - tech weaponry and gadgets can be created in poorly outfitted locales.

Regardless, a new effort from Payne should be a must - see for any film lover, and the director is following is relatively low key «Nebraska» with a big - thinking science - fiction satire.

Sarah supports three groups of teacher scholars: a cross-district team of Oakland Unified Computer Science teachers participating in a two - year effort to bring quality computer science instruction to every Oakland school; the staff at Lorenzo Manor Elementary in San Lorenzo Unified serving a diverse population of more than 600 students; and the teachers at MetWest High School, a small Oakland public school and member of the Big Picture Schools nScience teachers participating in a two - year effort to bring quality computer science instruction to every Oakland school; the staff at Lorenzo Manor Elementary in San Lorenzo Unified serving a diverse population of more than 600 students; and the teachers at MetWest High School, a small Oakland public school and member of the Big Picture Schools nscience instruction to every Oakland school; the staff at Lorenzo Manor Elementary in San Lorenzo Unified serving a diverse population of more than 600 students; and the teachers at MetWest High School, a small Oakland public school and member of the Big Picture Schools network.

The bigger problems of fossil fuel use are continuing and a long term effort to replace that is beset with all kinds of problems that are a combination of corporate interests, mindset, and science, coupled with the will to get it together.

The journal Nature has published a helpful update on scientists» efforts to narrow one of the biggest gaps in climate science — the inability to reliably gauge the role of greenhouse - driven warming in determining the intensity of the kinds of extreme climate events that matter most to societies — from hurricanes to heat waves.

Some of the authors in AR4 were paid for their effort by Big Oil, others were paid by Big Environment, most were on public money working for an interested department, but I've never met anyone who worked for the IPCC on a grant of the National Science Foundation or suchlike.

Model uncertainty is one of the biggest challenges we face in Earth system science, yet comparatively little effort is devoted to fixing it.

«but one big part of the critique from from the sceptics (scientists and public) is that the results / descriptions from establishment science do not stand apart from the efforts to publicize and to confirm AGW.»