Although spending on science has risen worldwide, greater investment is needed in the face of growing crises, the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has recommended in a new report published. The latest edition of its Science Report, which is published every five years, further reveals that there is …
Are you wondering if science could lead you to the right career or is it something that is boring you to death? Well, you might even be of the opinion that science is all about being an engineer, doctor or scientist. Careers In Science: A Complete Guide to a Successful …
science has taken a knocking. Thrifty funds and a messy peer review structure, among others, have served to forecast a gloomy future for science in the coming millennium, according to a group of us and uk scientists who met in Washington recently. "The crisis of funding is real. Science has …
Researchers have long puzzled over how nitric oxide (NO) plays a vital role in a range of biologoical processes, from dilation of blood vessels to immune defence, learning, memory and even maintaining erections. Now Jonathan Stamler and his colleagues at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, US, have discovered one …
science has provided us with many an insight into the nature of things. Empirical facts like the explosion of the universe into being 15 billion years ago, the formation of the Earth 4.5 billion years ago, the generation of life three to four billion years ago and the continuing process …
science and technology ( s & t ) reforms in China have neatly dovetailed into a dramatic transformation of the country's economy. A good case in point is the Fugou county in central China's Henan province, once a dusty landscape, where 70 per cent of the land area comprises sand …
Africa apparently has become the new-found interest for Japs, who are quietly targeting their overseas development assistance (ODA) towards helping African nations create a strong base for science and technology. In Kenya, for instance, they have collaborated with the government to establish the Kenya Medical Research Institute, the Kenya Forestry …
science and policy-oriented research has in recent decades had to address knowledge systems hitherto considered marginal to the mainstream discourse on science. Among the new themes that have emerged, studies focussing on gender relations have uncovered the fact that gender biases are deeply ingrained in the fields of science and …
the universe we live in is full of patterns. The regularity of seasons, the movement of heavenly bodies and the intricate pattern of waves on a beach are all ubiquitous patterns around us. The human mind has developed a formal system of thought to study and understand these patterns mathematics. …
IF You think science is boring, forbidding, unpoetic, egoistic, unintellectual, anti- environment and chauvinistic, you are either too naive to confuse science with politics or a neo-Luddite brainwashed by anti-science propagandists, or an unfortunate victim of uninspiring science teachers. The truth is otherwise, but many do not know that. Indeed, …
AN ESSENTIAL source of facts, figures and discussion@ information on present day science and its modus operandi, the World Science Report, 1996, presents a global perspective on the state of science today. "Although there is almost universal support for this idea of science as an engine of economic and social …
How did the primordial soup of amino acids and other molecules organise themselves into a living cell? How do galaxies and other structures form when there is an inexorable tendency towards disorder? Reductionist sciencc, which has held sway since the time of Newton - and has helped us gain an …
Scientists working at the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics in Germany, have devised an 'intelligent window' which can automatically modulate the amount of sunlight entering a room. Just as sunglasses block light, the window's glass surface has a coating which is transparent at cool temperatures but becomes opaque when the …
VIRTUAL reality (VR) is a concept which allows people to experience an :s if world. In other words, computer programmes and imaging hardware create a three-dimensional world with which actual interaction is possible. A report released by a committee of the National Research Council, an operating agency of the National …
IT is the era of knowledge revolution. And we are living in a 'knowledge society' ever since we learned how to make a fire and where to find food. The values of competition and materialism mostly dominate the human society today. In my mind, a future cannot be built on …
THEY invaded the panchayat offices in several parts of Kerala... teeming crowds of noisy school students demanding, of all things, panchayat maps! This sudden interest in their respective local geographies was sparked off by the Vigyanotsavam - meaning a 'festival of sciences' - conducted by the Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad …
"GOD is dead", had asserted Nietzsche, proclaiming the arrival of the age of rationality. It is true that for most people, "God" is the antidote to the fear of the unknown, a concept that accounts for all that is unexplainable. Therefore, it seems but natural that as science expands its …
IF THERE is One striking feature about the intellectual landscape today, it is the increasing importance of science as opposed to literature or philosophy. Scientists are at the centrestage of intellectual debates on various issues ranging from the nature of the mind to that of the universe. This is in …
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"INTO every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism. " This quotation from Bertrand Russell, is certainly appropriate at the beginning of this book on fuzzy logic. If anything, the "anarchism" of fuzzy logic has and continues to …
COSMOLOGY is somewhat of an oddball among the physical sciences. Experimental facts about the origin and the ultimate fate of the universe are usually scarce, making cosmology a concoction of theory, some facts and much speculation. However, the scenario has undergone a change in the recent past because of the …
