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...anyone can change that, it's Angela Belcher. A materials scientist and bioengineer at M.I.T., Belcher, 49, won a MacArthur Foundation genius grant in 2004, and last fall Scientific American named her research leader of the year for her current project: creating an entirely new kind of battery, not by building it but by growing it. Working with several M.I.T. colleagues, Belcher has engineered a virus, known as M13 bacteriophage, that latches onto and coats itself with bits of inorganic materials, including gold and cobalt oxide. That turns each long, tubular virus into what amounts to a minuscule length...
...Stem cell scientist Douglas A. Melton will represent FAS as the department’s other co-chair. The department’s initial 13 to 16 faculty members—who have yet to be named—will retain ties to their current faculties, but its headquarters will be stationed across the river in the Allston campus’ flagship science complex. The department will also conduct a search for three junior faculty members and plans to eventually expand still further...
...such preparations are a matter of urgency because of the warming trend already in motion, at the same time, if carbon emissions continue to rise, so will temperatures, intensifying the crisis. But there's broad agreement on the economic logic of immediate global action, says Robert Watson, the chief scientist for the World Bank and a former chair of the IPCC: "The cost of mitigation will be less than the cost of inaction...
Others, looking home, see signs that make them hopeful. Olivier Pourquié, a scientist who moved from Marseille to Kansas City, Missouri, five years ago, is pleased that a younger generation of politicians is finally taking power in France. "Whoever is elected, it will mean an end to the gerontocracy. It's time to move to something more dynamic," he says. Pourquié left France out of frustration with the rigid state-funded scientific establishment - and because the American lab where he now works, the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, offered him a package of pay and perks that...
...seem logical, in retrospect, that a combination of awe and rebellion made Einstein exceptional as a scientist. But what is less well known is that those two traits also combined to shape his spiritual journey and determine the nature of his faith. The rebellion part comes in at the beginning of his life: he rejected at first his parents' secularism and later the concepts of religious ritual and of a personal God who intercedes in the daily workings of the world. But the awe part comes in his 50s when he settled into a deism based on what he called...