Sentences with phrase «new areas of science»

The Department of Science and Technology (DST) was established in May 1971, with the objective of promoting new areas of Science & Technology and to play the role of a nodal department for organizing, coordinating and promoting S&T activities in the country.

Astronomers anticipate exciting new areas of science to open up after using Webb to study stars at the beginning and end of their «lifecycle,» as well as stars» behavior around the galaxy's central supermassive black hole.

Ideally, fellows pursue unconventional projects in new areas of science, engineering and social sciences.

Advantage 3: Learn about new areas of science - related work.

Glacier seismology is a relatively new area of science, but interest has been growing in the possibilities for detecting the extent of global warming's impact in the vibrations it causes beneath the Earth's surface.

According to a recent National Research Council report, the discovery of subglacial lakes «opened an entirely new area of science in a short period of time.»

Put them all together and you have the field of mesenteric science... the basis for a whole new area of science,» he said.

This new area of science is called epigenetics, the study of how different environmental and lifestyle factors can alter how our genes behave, without actually changing our genetic makeup [source: Science].

Lynne Forbes of Angel Exit Theatre company told us «It will be our third year collaborating with scientists to create walkabout theatre in Einstein's Garden at the Green Man Festival and we're really excited about exploring a whole new area of science.»

But its importance to biology and medicine can not be overstated; nor can the importance of good journalistic coverage of this dynamic new area of science.

Not exact matches

The Hon. Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, explained that Canada must think beyond trade and investment to build new opportunities and partnership through innovation hubs and by tapping into the growth of developing smart cities — urban areas that use communications technologies to manage their infrastructure.

Yet something like a universal language is being provided by empirical science (for example, in mathematics), this being one of the important areas of commonality in the new global culture.

They'll probably find a new hot area of science to latch onto.

Melding the category strengths and bestselling authors of both imprints, TarcherPerigee's core publishing areas include: Self - improvement (such as the runaway successes Start Where You Are by Meera Patel, The Power of Kindness by Piero Ferrucci, Attached by Dr. Amir Levine, and A Mind for Numbers by Barbara Oakley); Creativity (including interactive books like Adam J. Kurtz's 1 Page at a Time and Me, You, Us by Lisa Currie as well as the multi-million-copy bestsellers Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards and The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron); Parenting (the New York Times bestseller Brainstorm by Dr. Daniel Siegel, Carol Kranowitz's go - to guide The Out - of - Sync Child, and Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids by Dr. Laura Markham); Spirituality (including bestselling titles like Transcendence by Dr. Norman Rosenthal, Goldie Hawn's 10 Mindful Minutes, The Science of Mind by Ernest Holmes, and I Am the Word by Paul Selig); and Gift / Inspiration (such as the Wall Street Journal bestseller Chasers of the Light by Tyler Knott Gregson, the New York Times bestseller Catification by Jackson Galaxy and the James Beard Award - winner Imbibe by David Wondrich).

Sections of Harris Field, a heavily - used park sandwiched between Bronx High School of Science and Lehman College, were found to have four times the federally - established legal limit of lead contamination for public play areas, according to documents obtained by the Norwood News with the help of the nonprofit New York City Park Advocates.

A report from the Lords science and technology committee warns the # 22 billion sustainable communities plan, which will see new homes built in four main areas, did not take the issue of water scarcity into consideration early enough.

So says Natalie Jeremijenko, a professor of art and computer science at New York University, who has set up an installation in the Bronx River which invites passersby to check in with the area's «urban nonhumans» — like the alewife herring, blue crabs, and beaver which frequent that stretch of the river.

By advancing a fundamental area of science, we are able to create an entirely new way to differentiate these micro-organisms,» Hayes said.

Hurricanes that devastated areas of the Caribbean last fall impeded science research and teaching, but new networks for aiding colleagues and new avenues for research have emerged from the response efforts, according to several speakers at a recent conference co-hosted by AAAS.

In October, Drakes and Donovan will be among a group of teachers giving a presentation on their experiences using the Toward High School Biology unit and helping to lead a workshop to introduce the new unit to attendees of the 2017 Area Conference of the NSTA, the world's largest organization of science educators.

Thus, the thought of working with different people and learning new concepts and methods from an unfamiliar area of science is very exciting.

Scientists have found that small streams, in areas of the eastern Brazilian Amazon that are a mixture of forest and farmland, contain fauna new to science, as well as very rare species.

But at the SuperSTEM facility, we are fortunate in being right at the cutting edge of our area, so almost everything we do is new both for the measurement technique and the science around the sample - protecting us from encountering that slightly snooty attitude.

Every day, I read and learn new things in a much broader area of science than I have ever had the time to do before.

That means talking to the executives in Science television to understand their priorities and working across other areas of New Media to ensure that our work complements the bigger picture.

Over the past two years, a new political impetus has been given to European science through the concept of the European Research Area (ERA) articulated by Philippe Busquin, Commissioner for Research of the European Union (EU)(1, 2).

In 1992, for example, I recorded 79 species new to science from the deep water areas of a small portion of southern Lake Malawi.

Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey and the University of Cincinnati also have master's - level programs in cosmetic science, with courses covering a range of areas including colloid and surface science, biochemistry, applied organic chemistry, and the structure of skin, hair, and nails.

A disused medical research facility in Nutley, New Jersey, will find new life as the location of a soon - to - be-established medical school, bringing new science - based jobs to an area hard hit by large layoffs of scientifically and technically trained personnNew Jersey, will find new life as the location of a soon - to - be-established medical school, bringing new science - based jobs to an area hard hit by large layoffs of scientifically and technically trained personnnew life as the location of a soon - to - be-established medical school, bringing new science - based jobs to an area hard hit by large layoffs of scientifically and technically trained personnnew science - based jobs to an area hard hit by large layoffs of scientifically and technically trained personnel.

Like Gilead, which aims to develop treatments for HIV / AIDS, hepatitis B and C, influenza, pulmonary arterial hypertension, and cystic fibrosis, other top employers accentuate the positive aspects of the life science industry by performing their R&D in entirely new areas.

The country's 2006 — 2010 Science & Technology Plan identified nanotechnology and new materials as part of eight promotion areas and helped establish a new section of Japan's National Institute of Health Sciences (NIHS) that focuses on nanomedicine.

«After all, the life - science goals of the Googles, Apples and Microsofts of the world are likely to change in the near term as the companies explore an area that is new to them.»

This new area of crop science comes at a precarious time for global food security.

By contrast, Wager's work, published in Science in 2004, suggested that the placebo effect starts in the evolutionarily newer parts of the brain related to expectations and works its way backward toward more primitive areas that release opioids.

Katherine Mathieson, the association's director of education, supervises the managers of each of those outreach areas; she does little direct science outreach today, she says, but she enjoys having a hand in a variety of projects, established and new.

Barbara R. Jasny Deputy Editor, Emeritus Education: B.A., New York University; Ph.D., The Rockefeller University Areas of responsibility: Genomics, genetics, biomedicine, molecular evolution, public policy, computational social science E-Mail: [email protected]

Science Immunology publishes original research in all areas of immunology, including new tools and techniques as well as human trials.

What I choose to read is based on relation to my research areas and things that are generating lots of interest and discussion because they are driving the way we do psychology, or science more widely, in new directions.

The feverish uptake of Crispr - Cas9 has reshuffled careers and empowered new users at all echelons of science in the Bay Area: visionaries at Berkeley, East Bay entrepreneurs, Silicon Valley corporate types, the DIY community and, yes, teenagers.

In my home region of Arizona — a hot spot for the future life science companies — we are actively promoting each and every potential new company in the area, via e-mail lists that even nonmembers can receive.

He presented this advance in the journal Procedia Computer Science and, more recently, at an International scientific congress on the application of new technologies in the area of healthcare, the HCist, which was held in Portugal in October 2015.

Using their star power and connections, the foursome have pushed their ideas on conspicuous occasions, a number of which they created themselves: a session at the National Academy of Sciences» annual meeting that Varmus described as «heated;» a briefing by Krischner, Tilghman, and Varmus at the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology; a meeting at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute that «brought together some senior... influencers to talk about the problem;» a new paper about that meeting that will soon appear in PNAS; and a presentation by Kirschner at the Future of Research symposium organized by Boston - area postdocs in October.

«This study opens the door to a whole new area that may give us an understanding of what causes puberty,» says endocrinologist Michael Conn of Oregon Health and Science University in Portland.

Conference chair Katherine Richardson, a biological oceanographer at the University of Copenhagen, told the opening plenary session that the conference would ensure that policymakers would pay attention by providing compelling messages in three broad areas: how bad the climate science is [that is, how bad the impact of climate change will be], the «good news» that's out there in terms of new ways of mitigating carbon emissions, and the prospects for adapting to the proliferating impacts that scientists are seeing around the world.

Today AAAS, publisher of ScienceInsider, is stepping into this area with a new journal called Science Translational Medicine.

This new color - coded photo mosaic of Mercury's south polar region, presented here today at a joint meeting of the European Planetary Science Congress and the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society, shows these «freezer» areas as dark blotches.

A new study by MIT neuroscientists reveals how the brain achieves this type of focused attention on faces or other objects: A part of the prefrontal cortex known as the inferior frontal junction (IFJ) controls visual processing areas that are tuned to recognize a specific category of objects, the researchers report in the April 10 online edition of Science.

One of the things I find very disturbing about the current approach to drugs, which is simply prohibition without necessarily any full understanding of harms, is that we lose sight of the fact that these drugs may well give us insights into areas of science that need to be explored and may give us new opportunities for treatment.

Headline: Old Brains Can Learn New Tricks: Study Shows Older People Use Different Areas Of The Brain To Perform Same «Thinking Task» As Young Link: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/10/991021094811.htm Source: Science Daily / University of ToronOf The Brain To Perform Same «Thinking Task» As Young Link: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/10/991021094811.htm Source: Science Daily / University of Toronof Toronto

Because the major potato growing area encompasses large parts of northern South America, Zimmerer needed a novel approach, which he presented today (Feb. 15) at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Chicago, where he organized a symposium on new agrobiodiversity discoveries needed for sustainability.