Sentences with phrase «science is in the film»

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Lewis wrote, noting that such salted weapons were featured in the 1964 science - fiction Cold War parody film «Dr. Strangelove.»

He didn't want to make it look like just a mechanical mat... which is typically what happens with robots in science fiction films.

Creative and dynamic religious forces are finding their expression not in the context of the organized church, but in film, literature, and the arts, and also in some aspects of science and industry, where people are seeking ways to give institutional expression to their basic religious concerns while at the same time rejecting alliances with institutional religion.

And of the female characters, specifically in G - rated films, which are for very young kids, we found that there are no CEOs, no politicians in high positions, there were no female characters in medical science or in law.

«Leveraging our expertise in multi-layer film innovation and illustrating our prowess in optical science, we're able to work closely with financial institutions to enable a new generation of transaction cards with bold designs and style that appeal to consumers.»

Building on more than seven decades of expertise in optical science, 3M's Multi-layer Optical Film is composed of hundreds of layers, combining the company's core technologies - film, adhesives and light management.

It also included an evening session going beyond economics and political science to look at how times of fiscal austerity were reflected in film, cartoon and gallery art, with experts exploring these issues from the perspective of social history.

James Dashner, the author of «The Maze Runner,» a top - selling dystopian science fiction series that was turned into a film trilogy, has been dropped by his publisher, Random House, due to his inclusion on a list of authors who allegedly engaged in harassment.

De Blasio, for his part, touted his various achievements at the city level, including his new $ 500 million life sciences initiative, his universal prekindergarten initiative, new programs the city has created to help young people get jobs in the film and TV industry, the city's rent freeze program and the fact that the city now gives residents who are being harassed by their landlords a lawyer for free if they can fight the case.

The Central New York hub will be part of the state university system's College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, focusing on innovations in the film industry and other sectors, such as medical devices and energy.

SUNY's role This new film hub will be an arm of the state's College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, which is headquartered in Albany.

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The journal article explains how comprehensive data - science methods were applied to a material - science degradation problem of PET films used as an environmental barrier in solar panels.

To check the feasibility of Harry surviving with home - grown gills, in a paper for the Journal for Interdisciplinary Science Topics, students Rowan Reynolds and Chris Ringrose first inspected the gills themselves, estimating them to be approximately 60cm2 in surface area based on their appearance in the film.

If you're looking around for something to watch this Sunday evening that complements the Oscars, the World Science Festival has a great video which features the Coen Brothers, film composer Carter Burwell, Alec Baldwin, and neuroscientist Aniruddh Patel discussing the emotional effects and role of music in film.

There are also meetings and film festivals where science producers gather, such as the World Congress of Science Producers, the Wildscreen Festival in the U.K., and the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival, all of which are good places to go to learn about filmmaking and to meet science producers gather, such as the World Congress of Science Producers, the Wildscreen Festival in the U.K., and the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival, all of which are good places to go to learn about filmmaking and to meet Science Producers, the Wildscreen Festival in the U.K., and the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival, all of which are good places to go to learn about filmmaking and to meet people.

Initial funding for the program was donated by David Evans Shaw, a Maine - based entrepreneur, AAAS treasurer and executive producer of the film «Second Century Stewardship: Science Beyond the Scenery in Acadia National Park.»

If you are in Paris, Bristol or Vienna over the next month, you might consider adding a science film festival to your agenda!

Researchers report in tomorrow's issue of Science that they've created thin films that are hybrids of rat heart muscle cells grown on a prepatterned plastic support.

He identified himself as being from a film company called Rampant Films and Crossroads was sort of a generic science and religion, evolution and creationism looking at the controversy in American society.

Scientific American -LSB-'s] editor in chief, John Rennie, and I saw the film Expelled and we'll share our thoughts; and then we'll hear from Eugenie Scott, the director of the National Center for Science Education, who is actually in the movie.

If the server decides that there are objects with geographic coordinates that fall within the camera's field of view, it superimposes these objects on the picture from the phone camera, in a fashion similar to the way the director of a science fiction movie might use special effects to add a spacecraft to a filmed scene.

What I've been doing the past few years is producing documentary films for science - based nonprofit organizations who are interested in promoting their science programs and things like that.

In the typical science fiction film circa 1950, there's that scene in which scientists return from the just - landed flying saucer and tell the Army brass that no tool known to humankind can cut, burn, bend, or otherwise scar the hulIn the typical science fiction film circa 1950, there's that scene in which scientists return from the just - landed flying saucer and tell the Army brass that no tool known to humankind can cut, burn, bend, or otherwise scar the hulin which scientists return from the just - landed flying saucer and tell the Army brass that no tool known to humankind can cut, burn, bend, or otherwise scar the hull.

There will be an announcement from SciAm about the reorganization of the blogging network, and PsiVid, where I've posted about science in TV, video and film along with -LSB-...]

The remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still closely parallels Robert Wise's 1951 science fiction film classic that was a Cold War warning shrouded in a Christ allegory.

It was a film on African - American kids in science and engineering.

That is a far likelier scenario than the portrayal of aliens in most science fiction films.

While a number of ferroelectric materials are known to science and are already used in different applications, their crystal structure does not allow them to be scaled down to a small enough, ultra-thin film for use in miniaturized devices.

This project has been extremely exciting for me and I have learnt a huge amount in many areas: science centres, film production, deaf culture.

Science Cinémathèque, a project funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, features reviews of recent movies such as Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man and a series of short student films on such topics as wormholes, the patterns in pinecones and sunflowers, and Ignaz Semmelweis, the 19th - century Hungarian physician whose campaign to promote hand washing among doctors was met with near - universal scorn.

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen: Just as intriguingly quixotic as angling in the desert is this film (based on a novel) itself: a romance fueled by fisheries science.

Myhrvold's irreverent advice was just one of the cutting - edge food science and cooking tips that he shared during his talk, all the while dazzling the audience with film clips of wine glasses shattering, orange zest vaporizing, and a kernel of popcorn exploding in slow motion (as illustration of the kernel's «structural failure» to illustrate how water in food can become a «steam rocket» as the latent heat of the water builds up).

«It is a science fiction film set in a place with a complicated, aggressive history.»

What is new is that the tin and sulfur film can direct the light into a single beam, the researchers report today in Science.

AAAS / Science is a sponsor of the festival and presents The Science / AAAS Scientist Award to the film that best depicts a scientist in an accurate and original way.

Aurelien Manchon, an Associate Professor of Material Science and Engineering at the University, notes that one of the main reasons for the appeal of skyrmions is their ability to avoid defects or uneven patches in thin films that would normally trap or «pin» a magnetic charge.

The new Antenna is pledged to view the cultural context of science in each film, so we are treated to the vision of the vulpine, if affable, Deutsch making toast in his kitchen, and visiting his local pub.

In the recent science fiction film Passengers, a huge spaceship flies at half the speed of light on a 120 - year - long journey toward the distant planet Homestead II, where its 5000 passengers are to set up a new home.

Neill Blomkamp: I'm very interested in science personally, especially speculative fiction, outside the realm of my films.

In a memorable scene in The Program, a film based on his fall from grace, he is portrayed being injected with EPO accompanied by the line: «This is science; no longer confined to Earth — now we have learned to fly.&raquIn a memorable scene in The Program, a film based on his fall from grace, he is portrayed being injected with EPO accompanied by the line: «This is science; no longer confined to Earth — now we have learned to fly.&raquin The Program, a film based on his fall from grace, he is portrayed being injected with EPO accompanied by the line: «This is science; no longer confined to Earth — now we have learned to fly.»

In what seems like a plot straight out of a low - budget science - fiction film, scientists have revived a giant virus that was buried in Siberian ice for 30,000 years — and it is still infectiouIn what seems like a plot straight out of a low - budget science - fiction film, scientists have revived a giant virus that was buried in Siberian ice for 30,000 years — and it is still infectiouin Siberian ice for 30,000 years — and it is still infectious.

Here's a look at some of the space - science concepts that play key roles in the film.

«Interstellar,» the latest blockbuster film by Christopher Nolan that opened Friday, is a science - fiction movie set in the near future when humanity must depart Earth and find a new home.

The science presented in the film is well - explained and even though the focus of the film is on medical breakthroughs accomplished using stem cells, the scientists interviewed do not try to over-hype current stem cell applications.

The European Space Agency's first foray into science fiction, in the form of a short film entitled Ambition that promotes the Rosetta mission, may herald a new way in which science outreach can be conducted.

In this wide - ranging, humorous talk, Seth Shostak takes a look at Star Wars and other science fiction films from the point of view of a skeptical scientist, tells stories about the movies he has been asked to advise, and muses about aliens from space and how we might make contact with them.

Greenberg quoted Matt Damon's stranded astronaut from the film «The Martian» in explaining how his team expected to overcome the obstacles: «We're going to science the shit out of it.»

He has been active in translating science to the public through print and digital media and was chief scientific consultant for the Soderbergh film, Contagion.

And now thanks to new research in the last few years and a film called Microbirth, we're discovering even more about the fascinating science behind it.