Sentences with phrase «for nuclear science»

Thaler's co-authors are Andrew Larkoski of Reed College, Simone Marzani of the State University of New York at Buffalo, and Aashish Tripathee and Wei Xue of MIT's Center for Theoretical Physics and Laboratory for Nuclear Science.

«Nuclear is the major base load — producing energy source that could reduce greenhouse - gas emissions,» says Kathryn McCarthy, INL's deputy director for nuclear science and technology.

Not exact matches

«This scenario reconciles the discrepancy in the nuclear DNA and mitochondrial DNA phylogenies of archaic hominins and the inconsistency of the modern human - Neanderthal population split time estimated from nuclear DNA and mitochondrial DNA,» says researcher Johannes Krause, also of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

But what is most striking about this image is again its similarity to Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz, where a religious order like the Benedictines is what keeps at least a fragmentary knowledge of science alive after a nuclear catastrophe.

Forty - five years after Humanae Vitae, it now seems clear that the invention of the oral contraceptive pill (to adopt one reference point for the broader contraceptive revolution) was one of the three achievements of 20th - century science with truly world - historical impact, the other two being the creation of the self - sustaining nuclear chain reaction and the unraveling of the DNA double helix.

Thing is, they have no more of a clue than anyone else... Last time I checked science has no explanation for «nuclear force»... or even simpler things like..

At least seven immense, interdependent threats to the quality of life on spaceship earth continue to escalate: the population explosion; the widening gulf between rich and poor nations; massive malnutrition (caused mainly by economic injustice, which produces maldistribution of available food); environmental pollution and degradation; the depletion of the irreplaceable resources of our finite planet; the growing threat of nuclear terrorism and eventual holocaust (with the equivalent of one and a half million Hiroshima - sized bombs in the arsenals of the world); and the worldwide tendency for the fruits of science and technology to be used without ethical responsibility.

Our «science» is simply a way for us to explain the world around us... nobody has ever seen a graviton but we know it warps space / time and that it interacts across vast distances but in a much smaller way than the strong nuclear force for example (which again is a made up force on our part to just understand our universe)

because it was scientists that created the Nuclear bomb, in fact it was science that created all weapons... so by your logic, Science is to blame for the Death of EVERY human being in Warfare throughout time except for those killed by rocks and sticks that are unsharpened and / or killed by use of barehands... Science has slaughtered BILLIONS...... of course that's nonsensescience that created all weapons... so by your logic, Science is to blame for the Death of EVERY human being in Warfare throughout time except for those killed by rocks and sticks that are unsharpened and / or killed by use of barehands... Science has slaughtered BILLIONS...... of course that's nonsenseScience is to blame for the Death of EVERY human being in Warfare throughout time except for those killed by rocks and sticks that are unsharpened and / or killed by use of barehands... Science has slaughtered BILLIONS...... of course that's nonsenseScience has slaughtered BILLIONS...... of course that's nonsense right?

The President himself is chairing the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure and the Nigerian Nuclear Regulatory Authority.

«They didn't sign up for budget deficits... They didn't sign up for science being pushed out of the way by ideology... They didn't sign up for the denial of climate change... They didn't sign up for North Korea getting nuclear weapons...»

Kurt Gottfried, a recognized leader in the scientific community on missile defense and nuclear terrorism, has been awarded the 2016 Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

2016: Kurt Godfried — Dr. Gottfried, a recognized leader in the scientific community on missile defense and nuclear terrorism who was among the founders of the Union of Concerned Scientists, was honored for his long and distinguished career as a «civic scientist,» through his advocacy for arms control, human rights, and integrity in the use of science in public policy making.

That liberals are just as guilty of antiscience bias comports more with accounts of humans chomping canines, and yet those on the left are just as skeptical of well - established science when findings clash with their political ideologies, such as with GMOs, nuclear power, genetic engineering and evolutionary psychology — skepticism of the last I call «cognitive creationism» for its endorsement of a blank - slate model of the mind in which natural selection operated on humans only from the neck down.

Darleane C. Hoffman, nuclear chemist and director of the Glenn T. Seaborg Institute for Transactinium Science at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California (UC), Berkeley

Facing limited funds, NASA administrator Michael Griffin slashed many science programs, including astrobiology (down 50 percent in the 2007 request) and the development of nuclear propulsion systems for spacecraft (down 97 percent).

It has done so in the past with the far - sighted vision of cooperative science exemplified in European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), European Southern Observatory (ESO), and European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL).

Established by Congress in 2000, NNSA is a semi-autonomous agency within the U.S. Department of Energy responsible for enhancing national security through the military application of nuclear science.

And here at TRIUMF, I work on nuclear physics accelerators and the cyclotron, which is used for materials science and nuclear medicine.

This was when I started my career in teaching English for Science and Technology, travelling once a week to the Nuclear Research Centre in Karlsruhe, Germany, to teach scientific staff there.

As long as nuclear technology remains important for keeping America in its current position of global leadership, the U.S. government will keep pumping research's life - blood (money) into nuclear - energy - related science.

In the 20 years since one - hit wonder Timbuk 3 made nuclear science the pop cliché for career promise, the nuclear power industry has fallen on hard times.

The report is replete with examples of the social controversies involving science and technology at that time - the biological and environmental effects of nuclear weapons testing, DDT and other dioxins, the use of defoliants and herbicides by the U.S. military in Vietnam, the safety of nuclear power plants, the ban on fetal research, a moratorium on recombinant DNA research, the need for human subject protections and informed consent in genetics research, the misuse of psychology as a tool for torture, the implications of national security controls on science; misconduct in science, and the role of and protections for whistleblowers - many of which continue to resonate in the science and society relationship of today.

The work, published in Science, not only opens the door to expand the use of one of the most efficient energy sources on the planet, but also adds a key step in completing the nuclear fuel cycle — an advance, along with wind and solar, that could help power the world's energy needs cleanly for the future.

«Modern computers were originally designed for three fundamental problems: business applications, such as billing; science, such as nuclear physics simulation; and government programs, such as Social Security,» Modha states.

His article «Riddles in the Sand,» in Discover, was named best magazine article in 1998 by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and his Newsweek article «The Wasteland,» on Russia's plan to accept the world's nuclear waste, was honored by the Overseas Press Club for environmental writing.

Scientific American spoke with Benford about the factual basis for his book, the appeal of «alternate history» and the surprising origins of some real - world nuclear tactics in works of science fiction.

He helped formulate the concept of seeking alien civilizations by listening for their radio broadcasts; he lobbied for nuclear disarmament, believing that atomic power should be wielded only for constructive effect; and he helped Charles and Ray Eames create Powers of Ten, perhaps the most stunning science movie ever filmed.

«The plan, presented to a federal advisory panel [that day] in Washington, D.C., will inform planning for the coming decade in the Department of Energy's (DOE's) nuclear physics program, and the National Science Foundation's (NSF's) physics program.»

In addition to RHIC, the Office of Science supports research on the environmental conditions of the Big Bang at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), located at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, in Switzerland.

In one instance, journalists used the images to document the construction of the Soviet Krasnoyarsk radar, an alleged violation of the antiballistic missile treaty, explains nuclear physicist Peter D. Zimmerman, former science adviser for arms control in the U.S. State Department.

Yet Graham Allison, assistant secretary of defense in the first Clinton administration and now director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, places the odds of a nuclear strike within the next decade at 51 — 49 — slightly worse than the toss of a coin.

«This research illustrates a deep connection between two seemingly unrelated fields, and required contributions from an interdisciplinary team of condensed matter and nuclear physicists,» said James Misewich, the Associate Laboratory Director for Energy Science at Brookhaven Lab and a professor of physics at Stony Brook University, who played the central role of introducing the members of this research team to one another.

One of the most outstanding legacies of [former prime minister] Jawaharlal Nehru is the vast infrastructure for science and technology that India possesses and which has made so many far - reaching contributions to the country's progress — in agriculture, nuclear energy, defense, space, industry, energy, telecom and IT.

Omega's closure would have «irreversible and disastrous ramifications for maintaining the safety and reliability of our nuclear stockpile,» Richard Petrasso of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT's) Plasma Science and Fusion Center in Cambridge wrote in one letter to Representative Joe Kennedy III (D — MA).

DENVER — Ecosystems kilometers underground seem to thrive on food made via nuclear reactions, according to research presented here 14 February at the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which publishes ScienceNOW.

Far from seeing ANSTO as compensation for the loss of three divisions to the proposed national institute of marine science, the CSIRO regards the nuclear research body as an extra burden.

Anish served in the U.S. State Department as the chief science and technology officer for South Asia, leading departmental efforts on the U.S. - India Civil Nuclear Cooperation Initiative.

The reality is that [these programs] do a large variety of different things, from graduate fellowships at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to an introduction to science for kindergarteners.

P. Balaram, a molecular biophysicist and director of the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, and 60 others last week wrote an open letter to the public, stating: «We strongly believe that India must radically review its nuclear power policy for appropriateness, safety, costs, and public acceptance, and undertake an independent, transparent safety audit of all its nuclear facilities, which involves non-Department of Atomic Energy experts and civil society organisations.

Researchers at the University of Melbourne have demonstrated a way to detect nuclear spins in molecules non-invasively, providing a new tool for biotechnology and materials science.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science's (AAAS) Nuclear Weapons Complex Assessment Committee, a panel of experts convened to evaluate RRW, agrees, finding no reason to believe that such features would «substantially reduce the current reliance on guns, guards and gates» in its April assessment report.

It was thought nuclear science raised such important security issues that it needed a separate organisation, where staff could be carefully vetted for «loyalty».

For Gates, «big science» can mean the use of big machines and big research groups, as happens at the Large Hadron Collider, the world's premier particle accelerator at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) near Geneva, SwitzerlaFor Gates, «big science» can mean the use of big machines and big research groups, as happens at the Large Hadron Collider, the world's premier particle accelerator at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) near Geneva, Switzerlafor Nuclear Research (CERN) near Geneva, Switzerland.

«Right now, there are no good options for utilities,» said Charles Forsberg of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, who is the executive director of MIT's nuclear fuel cycleNuclear Science and Engineering, who is the executive director of MIT's nuclear fuel cyclenuclear fuel cycle study.

An international team of scientists, led by researchers from the University of Tuebingen and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, successfully recovered and analyzed ancient DNA from Egyptian mummies dating from approximately 1400 BCE to 400 CE, including the first genome - wide nuclear data from three individuals, establishing ancient Egyptian mummies as a reliable source for genetic material to study the ancient past.

Thierry Dujardin, an official with the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development's Nuclear Energy Agency in Paris, told Science for a 27 February 2009 article that fast reactors could help reduce nuclear waste and cut greenhouse gas emiNuclear Energy Agency in Paris, told Science for a 27 February 2009 article that fast reactors could help reduce nuclear waste and cut greenhouse gas eminuclear waste and cut greenhouse gas emissions.

This week in Science (p. 1868), scientists claim to have seen evidence for nuclear fusion in a beaker of organic solvent.

«One of the reasons understanding neutron skins and halos is so important is to make the most of astrophysical observations,» says Panagiota Papakonstantinou, a nuclear physicist at the Institute for Basic Science in Daejeon, South Korea.

For example, NSBP would like NOBCChE to join us in calling for a meeting with the secretary of energy and the director of the Office of Science and National Nuclear Security Administration to discuss our concerFor example, NSBP would like NOBCChE to join us in calling for a meeting with the secretary of energy and the director of the Office of Science and National Nuclear Security Administration to discuss our concerfor a meeting with the secretary of energy and the director of the Office of Science and National Nuclear Security Administration to discuss our concerns.