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There is as yet no common word to describe this stuff. "Biotechnology" describes the advancements in biology, and especially the creation of new medicines, thanks to computers. "Technobiology" might seem a good candidate, but it already describes the engineering of new plants. Peter Bentley, a British computer scientist, recently published a book called Digital Biology. But the phrase "biology of business" is heard as often as any other, perhaps because now it's investment by business, rather than government, that's driving most of the advances. Money is already being made by the technology's developers--and there's much...
...science and politics alike. Descended from a long line of Russian Orthodox priests, Sakharov was born, writes Lourie, into a family that valued "Russian and European culture, Christianity, patriotism, hard work, high ideals, modesty, courtesy, a quiet but implacable independence." At 12, he was taken by his teacher-scientist father to a laboratory and shown, in Sakharov's words, "dazzling miracles, but miracles I could understand." Sakharov loved what classical physics taught him: observation, logic, experimentation and doubt. But Hiroshima changed everything for the young physicist. Learning of the U.S. atomic bomb attack on Japan in 1945, Sakharov related...
...university hopes the physical proximity will allow for scientist-exchange programs, basic research collaborations and a host of other new relationships...
...political scientist, he was at the very top,” Mansfield says. “He’s someone you can count on for brilliance and scholarship...
...think it would be helpful, and I hope we can find sometime a scientist to serve on the Corporation,” Stone says. Summers has indicated improving sciences is a top priority...