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...SCIENCEJust as he roamed the halls in search of a willing mentor in the seventh grade, Greene said he would “unabashedly knock on professors’ doors” at Harvard. He asked astrophysics professor James M. Moran if he could conduct research in his lab. Moran was surprised at the time that a physics student would seek out research in astronomy. “We are up here in the observatory—it’s rare to have a physics kid tramping through looking for projects, at least back then...
...said. “It allows you to choose any research adviser and gives you so many opportunities in grad school.” Yao credits his undergraduate research advisor, Physics professor David A. Weitz, for much of his success. “My work in the Weitz lab has been the cornerstone of my undergraduate experience and has taught me about the importance of interdisciplinary research,” Yao said in the press release issued by the Radcliffe Institute. Yao said that Weitz was an “immense help” during his fellowship application process, editing...
Another cause of idea malfunction, Sindell believes, is that we tend to see things through a haze created by our own limited personal worldview. To get to the bottom of whether a given idea has any real merit outside our own heads - or outside the lab or conference room, where a team may have been sweating over it - Sindell recommends continually asking, "Why?" As in, "Why is this a good idea?" To each subsequent answer, he says, ask "Why?" again, until you've gotten down to the bedrock that underlies your assumptions. Then look at your idea again...
...group says the iPS cells generated using their method are equivalent to those made using Yamanaka's strategy. In fact, they seem to flourish more robustly than the traditional iPS cells, at least in lab tests that involve regrowing certain cells found in the retina. This could lead to a potential treatment to replace damaged eye cells in conditions such as retinitis pigmentosa or macular degeneration...
...Others believe the problem lies in the upbringing of children born after the fall of the Soviet Union. "Students today are more interested in money and dancing," says Yuri Bogomolov, 79, a former scientist at a Soviet-era aerospace lab. "We have a lot of patriotism, but the U.S. has a lot of money [to put into its space program]," he adds as he watches a clip from White Sun of the Desert, a Soviet action-adventure film that cosmonauts traditionally - and superstitiously - watch before blasting off, ever since Gagarin watched it and returned alive from his first space flight...