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• Eric Toone and David Danielson have joined Breakthrough Energy Ventures as executive managing director and managing director for science, respectively.
And for an equal amount of time, that notion has turned out to be more science fiction — or in one famous case, scandal — instead of breakthrough.
MaRS clients are making breakthroughs in areas such as healthcare and clean technology that will help improve people's everyday lives and generate high - paying, high - value jobs,» says Reza Moridi, Minister of Research, Innovation and Science for the Province of Ontario.
Scientists who don't debate or question settled science might miss opportunities for a new breakthrough that hadn't been observed or conceived of by a human mind.
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But before expressing this belief, Fr Holloway makes a general remark about the nature of scientific knowledge which may serve as an introduction to Polanyi's refutation of Scientific Positivism and his proposal that science is Personal Knowledge: «It is most significant that here, as so very often in the discoveries of science, it was not the inductive data which was the real beginning of the breakthrough in knowledge, but a deductive vision glimpsed through scanty data which thrilled and excited the mind... from then on the hunt is up for the clues and the final proof.»
Just as Galileo's scientific breakthroughs displaced geocentric cosmology, so, she believes, the neurosciences will displace our traditional ways of accounting for consciousness, and these sciences will bring us «face to face with ourselves.»
Roquette's Science People are also passionate about pushing boundaries in product development to create breakthrough, quick - to - market applications for partners.
But didn't Airbus develop world - beating fly - by - wire avionics by bringing together four countries including the UK; didn't the Euro - wide Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) set the global standard for mobile phones; and didn't the flagship EU Human Brain Project produce truly breakthrough science?
Twiss, a professor of biological sciences and the endowed SmartState chair of the Center for Childhood Neurotherapeutics, and graduate student Ashley Kalinski are building on breakthroughs that they and others have reported on nerve regeneration over the past several years.
Progress toward this starry - eyed goal is slow but steady, Breakthrough representatives say, and the organization is set to solicit research proposals for the associated «grand challenges» in optics, communications, materials science and other disciplines later this year.
Dr Lee Campbell, Research Projects and Science Communications Manager at Cancer Research Wales, who part - fund the study, commented: «This is an exciting breakthrough as cancer stem cells are thought to be responsible for the failure of many cancer treatments and the re-emergence of cancers, often many years after the initial disease.
Science named the finding Breakthrough of the Year for 1998.
Discover Magazine, which reaches more than 6 million readers monthly, is a manual for the future, bringing new technologies to light, examining medical breakthroughs and exploring the how and why behind science.
He added, «We will not just meet, but we will exceed the level achieved at the height of the space race, through policies that invest in basic and applied research, create new incentives for private innovation, promote breakthroughs in energy and medicine, and improve education in math and science.»
Recently, in an article published in the journal Nature Energy, lead author Yong Yan, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science, reported a key breakthrough in the basic science essential for progress toward thiScience, reported a key breakthrough in the basic science essential for progress toward thiscience essential for progress toward this goal.
The discovery, which opened up a potential new branch of astronomy, was named Science's Breakthrough of the Year for 2016.
For U.S. scientists, a loss in scientific prominence would likely mean «fewer U.S. - based science and technology breakthroughs, and fewer U.S. startup companies and jobs,» and even the threat of an American brain drain.
Like its predecessor report, which detailed 15 science opportunities ripe for advancement, The Future Postponed 2.0 provides a snapshot of 13 additional breakthrough opportunities for basic research and their potential long - term impacts.
COVER Cheap, widely available, and easy to use, the genome editing system called CRISPR earned Science's 2015 Breakthrough of the Year laurels for many great feats and some controversial ones — including the alteration of DNA in human embryos.
This space tremor was detected by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory (LIGO), a discovery that was named Science's Breakthrough of the Year for 2016 and won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Whether it's The Indepen - dent, The Washington Post or The Australian, the obvious impact of the annual meeting is the week - long surge in the number of science stories — half - pages, even whole pages are devoted to science in newspapers where even genuine breakthroughs normally have to fight for space.
Mihail Roco, senior advisor for Nanotechnology at the National Science Foundation, called the Stanford work «an important, scientific breakthrough.»
Albertani is working with Sinisa Todorovic, associate professor of computer science at OSU, and Matthew Johnston, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, on what they hope will be a major breakthrough in a safer - for - wildlife expansion of wind energy worldwide.
This year for the first time Science's Next Wave has joined with Science, in two ways.First, we've contacted some of the people doing the science behind Science's breakthrough topic, the exploration oScience's Next Wave has joined with Science, in two ways.First, we've contacted some of the people doing the science behind Science's breakthrough topic, the exploration oScience, in two ways.First, we've contacted some of the people doing the science behind Science's breakthrough topic, the exploration oscience behind Science's breakthrough topic, the exploration oScience's breakthrough topic, the exploration of Mars.
This year, astronomers traced high - energy particles called cosmic rays back to their birthplaces in the debris clouds of supernovae — a feat that Science's editors chose as a runner - up for Breakthrough of the Year.
Every year in December, Science magazine publishes their Breakthrough of the Year (BOY) special issue, presenting the Science editorial team's picks for the most important science - related story of the year and a list of runnerScience magazine publishes their Breakthrough of the Year (BOY) special issue, presenting the Science editorial team's picks for the most important science - related story of the year and a list of runnerScience editorial team's picks for the most important science - related story of the year and a list of runnerscience - related story of the year and a list of runners - up.
«The approach is really a breakthrough for science because most research is done in a test tube where billions of molecules are present, all behaving independently.
Today's medical breakthroughs, from genetically engineering animals to rewiring the human brain, pose moral and social dilemmas every bit as divisive, providing grist for Arthur Caplan as he weighs in on the future of science.
It stands for emptiness, for nothing — and yet it is considered one of the greatest cultural achievements of humankind, making the breakthrough for science and mathematics.
ATLANTA — The bizarre discovery that the cosmos may expand at an ever - increasing rate — hailed by Science as the «Breakthrough of the Year» for 1998 — has won endorsement from an erstwhile skeptic, Stephen Hawking.
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In the first year of the Challenge, Ryan Chester from North Royalton High School won a Breakthrough Science Lab for his school.
ESS will be responsible for future research breakthroughs in medicine, environmental science, climate, communication and transport.
Edward Boyden, an associate professor of media arts and sciences, biological engineering, and brain and cognitive sciences, was one of five scientists honored with the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, given for «transformative advances toward understanding living systems and extending human life.»
The latest breakthrough in superconductors, which will be published March 20 in Science, answers a key question on the microscopic electronic structure of cuprate superconductors, the most celebrated material family in our quest for true room - temperature superconductivity.
In our experience, philanthropic support for the most innovative investigator - initiated ideas is what leads to powerful breakthroughs in basic science.
She has received numerous honors, including the NSF Waterman Award, the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, and the L'Oreal - UNESCO International Prize for Women in Science.
As part of last year's 2016 Breakthrough Junior Challenge, Hillary Diane Andales was the Popular Vote winner and her high school was awarded a new science lab for the Eastern Vismayas Campus of the Philippine Science High School System science lab for the Eastern Vismayas Campus of the Philippine Science High School System Science High School System (PSHS).
A team from Duke University has used the gene editing tool — hailed as Science magazine's 2015 Breakthrough of the Year — for the first time to treat the genetic disorder Duchenne muscular dystrophy inside a living mammal, to be potentially replicated in humans.
Science magazine heralded these transcription activator - like effector nuclease proteins, known as TALENS, as a major scientific breakthrough in 2012, nicknaming them «genomic cruise missiles» for their ability to allow researchers to target specific locations with great efficiency.
Charting the activity of entire networks of neurons «is the major thing to be done to make a breakthrough in our understanding of how the brain works,» says John Donoghue, Director of the Institute for Brain Science at Brown University and a neuroscientist who studies how the brain encodes information and develops prosthetic devices for patients with paralysis.
Currently The Class of 1942 Associate Professor in Materials Science and Engineering and associate director of the Research Laboratory of Electronics at Massachusetts Institute for Technology, Anikeeva has devised breakthrough solutions to formidable challenges in bioengineering.
Cambridge research that will enable scientists to grow and study embryos in the lab for almost two weeks has been named as the People's Choice for Science magazine's «Breakthrough of the Year 2016»
April 11, 2018 - Ruth Nussenzweig, who for a half - century pursued one of medical science's most elusive goals, a vaccine for malaria, helping to bring the research from the seems - impossible stage to the brink of a breakthrough, died on April 1 in Manhattan.
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Charpentier has been awarded prestigious honors including the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize 2016, French Chevalier Order de la Légion d'Honneur in 2016, World Technology Award for Biotechnology 2015, Leibniz Prize 2016, a 2016 Vallee Visiting Professorship, the 2016 HFSP Nakasone Award, an Honorary Doctorate of the KU Leuven, the Science Award of Lower Saxony 2015, the ABRF Annual Award for Outstanding Contributions to Biomolecular Technologies 2016, the Massry Prize 2015, the Otto Warburg Medal 2016, the L'Oréal - UNESCO For Women in Science Award 2016, the Carus - Medal of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina 2015, the Umeå University EC Jubilee Award in 2015, the Gruber Prize in Genetics 2015, the Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research 2015, the 11th International Society for Transgenic Technologies Prize, the Hansen Family Award 2015, the 2015 Louis Jeantet Prize for Medicine, the 2015 Ernst Jung Prize for Medicine, the 2015 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, the 2014 Grand Prix Jean - Pierre LeCocq, the 2014 Jacob Heskel Gabbay Award in Biotechnology and Medicine, the 2014 Dr Paul Janssen Award, the 2014 Göran Gustafsson Prize, an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship in 2013 and the Eric K. Fernström Prize in 20for Biotechnology 2015, Leibniz Prize 2016, a 2016 Vallee Visiting Professorship, the 2016 HFSP Nakasone Award, an Honorary Doctorate of the KU Leuven, the Science Award of Lower Saxony 2015, the ABRF Annual Award for Outstanding Contributions to Biomolecular Technologies 2016, the Massry Prize 2015, the Otto Warburg Medal 2016, the L'Oréal - UNESCO For Women in Science Award 2016, the Carus - Medal of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina 2015, the Umeå University EC Jubilee Award in 2015, the Gruber Prize in Genetics 2015, the Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research 2015, the 11th International Society for Transgenic Technologies Prize, the Hansen Family Award 2015, the 2015 Louis Jeantet Prize for Medicine, the 2015 Ernst Jung Prize for Medicine, the 2015 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, the 2014 Grand Prix Jean - Pierre LeCocq, the 2014 Jacob Heskel Gabbay Award in Biotechnology and Medicine, the 2014 Dr Paul Janssen Award, the 2014 Göran Gustafsson Prize, an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship in 2013 and the Eric K. Fernström Prize in 20for Outstanding Contributions to Biomolecular Technologies 2016, the Massry Prize 2015, the Otto Warburg Medal 2016, the L'Oréal - UNESCO For Women in Science Award 2016, the Carus - Medal of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina 2015, the Umeå University EC Jubilee Award in 2015, the Gruber Prize in Genetics 2015, the Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research 2015, the 11th International Society for Transgenic Technologies Prize, the Hansen Family Award 2015, the 2015 Louis Jeantet Prize for Medicine, the 2015 Ernst Jung Prize for Medicine, the 2015 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, the 2014 Grand Prix Jean - Pierre LeCocq, the 2014 Jacob Heskel Gabbay Award in Biotechnology and Medicine, the 2014 Dr Paul Janssen Award, the 2014 Göran Gustafsson Prize, an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship in 2013 and the Eric K. Fernström Prize in 20For Women in Science Award 2016, the Carus - Medal of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina 2015, the Umeå University EC Jubilee Award in 2015, the Gruber Prize in Genetics 2015, the Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research 2015, the 11th International Society for Transgenic Technologies Prize, the Hansen Family Award 2015, the 2015 Louis Jeantet Prize for Medicine, the 2015 Ernst Jung Prize for Medicine, the 2015 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, the 2014 Grand Prix Jean - Pierre LeCocq, the 2014 Jacob Heskel Gabbay Award in Biotechnology and Medicine, the 2014 Dr Paul Janssen Award, the 2014 Göran Gustafsson Prize, an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship in 2013 and the Eric K. Fernström Prize in 20for Technical and Scientific Research 2015, the 11th International Society for Transgenic Technologies Prize, the Hansen Family Award 2015, the 2015 Louis Jeantet Prize for Medicine, the 2015 Ernst Jung Prize for Medicine, the 2015 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, the 2014 Grand Prix Jean - Pierre LeCocq, the 2014 Jacob Heskel Gabbay Award in Biotechnology and Medicine, the 2014 Dr Paul Janssen Award, the 2014 Göran Gustafsson Prize, an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship in 2013 and the Eric K. Fernström Prize in 20for Transgenic Technologies Prize, the Hansen Family Award 2015, the 2015 Louis Jeantet Prize for Medicine, the 2015 Ernst Jung Prize for Medicine, the 2015 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, the 2014 Grand Prix Jean - Pierre LeCocq, the 2014 Jacob Heskel Gabbay Award in Biotechnology and Medicine, the 2014 Dr Paul Janssen Award, the 2014 Göran Gustafsson Prize, an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship in 2013 and the Eric K. Fernström Prize in 20for Medicine, the 2015 Ernst Jung Prize for Medicine, the 2015 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, the 2014 Grand Prix Jean - Pierre LeCocq, the 2014 Jacob Heskel Gabbay Award in Biotechnology and Medicine, the 2014 Dr Paul Janssen Award, the 2014 Göran Gustafsson Prize, an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship in 2013 and the Eric K. Fernström Prize in 20for Medicine, the 2015 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, the 2014 Grand Prix Jean - Pierre LeCocq, the 2014 Jacob Heskel Gabbay Award in Biotechnology and Medicine, the 2014 Dr Paul Janssen Award, the 2014 Göran Gustafsson Prize, an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship in 2013 and the Eric K. Fernström Prize in 2011.
I don't think there is a certain answer to this question but if you ask me what I hope will be the next breakthrough in science I would say that I wish a cure will be found for illnesses that cause many deaths around the world such as cancer, leukaemia or AIDS, to name just a few.
The prize is administered by the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Foundation, a not - for - profit corporation dedicated to advancing breakthrough research, celebrating scientists and generating excitement about the pursuit of science Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Foundation, a not - for - profit corporation dedicated to advancing breakthrough research, celebrating scientists and generating excitement about the pursuit of science breakthrough research, celebrating scientists and generating excitement about the pursuit of science as a career.
Recently, Emoryâ $ ™ s Jeff Koplan, MD, vice president for global health and past CDC director, participated in a Breakthroughs panel sponsored by Big Think, Pfizer and Discover to discuss the latest issues in pandemic and genomic science, fields that have not only made big headlines recently but also promise to be two of the most pressing topics in global science and medicine in coming years.