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Unlike most tourists in the mid-July Nevada heat, Dmitri Sklyarov did not come to Las Vegas for the casinos. He hates the noise, and besides, as a computer scientist he knows how low the odds are of winning. "I use my head and my hands to make money, not waiting for luck," Sklyarov explains in broken English. So there were really only two highlights of his visit: the part where he spoke at the Def Con computer-security conference, and the part at the end where he got handcuffed and led away...
...operation to remove half a child's brain sounds like something that only a mad--not to mention sadistic--scientist would dream up. And yet Dr. Benjamin Solomon Carson, a pediatric neurosurgeon at the Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore, Md., is neither insane nor cruel. His reason for performing the surgery--known as a hemispherectomy--is quite compelling. For young patients with rare seizure disorders, it is often their best chance of living a more nearly normal life...
...microarray is the latest in a long line of scientific coups for Brown, who was among the first to learn how the AIDS virus replicates within healthy cells. "I'm just a scientist who's always daydreaming," he says, "and any time I think I have an interesting idea, I pursue...
...paid for what I love to do most. I get to determine when and where I work, and this flexibility lets me combine parenting and family life with being a scientist,” she said...
...It’s not why you wake up in the morning,” he said of media accolades. Like “any good scientist, I wake up in the morning hoping to learn about the earth, hoping that I might discover a new fossil,” he said...