Many of the highest paying jobs in society involve engineering, chemical and biological science, and some sort of mortal danger.
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Not surprisingly, the report, just published in the prestigious American Chemical Society journal Environmental Science and Technology, has put the cat among the pigeons, since there are many new companies gearing-up to produce algal biofuels.
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Aspiring to become a successful tech business CEO, she is switching from chemical and mechanical engineering to computer science.
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Moreover, he derides as "pseudo science" the battery of chemical and other tests restorers use to determine what art works originally looked like.
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Research in massage therapy, for example, is in its infancy, and little is known about the basic physiological effects of various techniques on tissues such as capillary beds, connective tissue, chemical markers, etc, so basic science research is critical in advancing our understanding of the various physiological effects of massage therapy.
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Just recently, the Chicago Tribune exposed a concerted effort by some chemical companies to use dirty tricks and junk science to mislead the public about the dangers of their products.
Nonetheless, some members of the science team still dream of finding tantalising chemical markers in Gale's rocks.
Dr. Bloom is the director of chemical and pharmaceutical sciences at the American Council on Science and Health, a health-care education and advocacy group based in New York.
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Most strikingly, Mr Gore is interested in science: his famous concern for the chemical balance of environment is matched by similar passions for the Internet, the genome map, new research on learning.
To make the machine commercial strength and add depth to his materials science knowledge, he brought in Weinberg, his onetime chemical engineering professor at the California Institute of Technology.
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But last year the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) quietly released Chemical Cuisine, an app for Android and iPhones exclusively dedicated to explaining the additives in our food, based on the impressive data collected by CSPI on more than 120 food additives.
Chemical companies and pesticide manufacturers have been lobbying just as hard - they argue that the science is inconclusive, and that a ban would harm food production.
The fruit fly, one of science's other favourite lab models, has already been subjected to extensive chemical mutagenesis, providing researchers with a wealth of useful genomic data.
Computer science is the third highest-paying bachelor degree, right behind computer engineering and chemical engineering.
We must improve and accelerate science and chemistry education, train today the chemists of tomorrow and enable everyone to understand chemical processes and gauge their impact.
So, here we have a problematic study hyped erroneously by science-challenged activists only to be picked up by science-absent television journalists only to be recycled back to the public by anti-chemical activists.
Thus far the star of this new science has been ethanol, a car fuel made from corn, but around the world chemical, grain and biotech companies are working to produce auto paint, cosmetics, even apparel fiber from renewable resources.
So it was with a sense of caution that I approached some Swiss research in the latest edition of the journal Science in which paralysed rats were able to walk again after a combination of electrical-chemical stimulation and rehabilitation training.
According to the American Chemical Society, nearly 100% of past winners in the prestigious Siemens Westinghouse Competition in Math, Science, and Technology (for high School students) play one or more musical instruments (The Midland Chemist (American Chemical Society) Vol. 42, No.1, Feb. 2005).
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"The fun of the challenge from the science perspective is that you do have farmers and biologists and entomologists, and biochemists and chemical engineers, and process engineers and business people and investors all working to solve this, and it ranges anywhere from a political issue to a technical issue, " del Cardayre said.
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