The Aventis Prize is now in its 18th year, and marks a bastion of excellence for popular science writing.
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Popular Science was also among the first magazines to sign on to Apple's new subscription service Tuesday.
The Jonah Lehrer debacle has spawned a series of debates about popular science writing and journalism.
In the audience at Howard's lecture was Alexander Tilloch, the publisher of the up-and-coming popular science monthly Philosophical Magazine.
Unfortunately, what Steven Rose has learned, as a neurobiologist, about sorting order from chaos, does not translate into his new book of popular science.
Leap Motion has won innovation awards from Popular Science, Popular Mechanics and Fast Company, and will present a featured session at the 2013 SXSW conference.
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As a teenager he devoured popular science fiction books like "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and "Ender's Game, " and always had a wild imagination.
Popular Science magazine in its annual Worst Jobs in Science issue now lists Kansas biology teacher as the third worst job, just above manure inspector.
He has written several popular science books, including The Selfish Gene and holds the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford.
There is a lot of discussion of both, which is very welcome because there are not many popular science books that cover these relatively young fields.
If you agree, then we've got a reading assignment we think you'll enjoy -- Popular Science chronicled the genesis of the bionic suit in this must-read feature.
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It is a low-cost enterprise: The partners and their 13 employees scour trade shows, trade journals and sidewalk newsstands--their magazine sources include mainstream offerings such as Popular Science--for new inventions.
The most popular science field has been medicine.
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As a work of popular science it is exemplary: the focus may be the numbers, but most of the mathematical legwork is confined to the appendices and the accompanying commentary is amusing and witty, as well as informed.
The programme includes an illustrative exhibition, screening of scientific films, popular science talk and student activities, which aims to sensitize the students and the general visitors about the potential use of science and technology for the sustainable development.
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These publications join previously announced strategic partnerships with USA TODAY, the Financial Times, the Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News, MIT's Technology Review, Popular Science, and IDG publication titles, including Macworld, PC World, CIO, Network World, and Computerworld.
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The architects worked with Pureti, a green-tech manufacturer (and winner of a 2011 "What's New" award from Popular Science), to develop a spray version of a titanium nano particle that, when activated by sunlight, oxidizes airborne particulates and converts them into water vapor and trace amounts of carbon dioxide.
Gould, a Harvard paleontologist and a popular-science writer, who died in 2002, was taking aim mainly at the rising ambitions of sociobiology.
LOVEFiLM will also bring popular NBCU science fiction dramas like the smash hit Heroes, in addition to David Hasselhoff's ultimate '80s cult TV classic Knight Rider, to its members.
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Popular Scottish science fiction author, Iain M(enzies) Banks, who also writes mainstream fiction under the name Iain Banks (no M), has been diagnosed with gall bladder cancer, and according to his statement, has only a few months to live.
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This led him to calculate that the information content of any event was proportional to the logarithm of its inverse probability of occurrence. (Unlike many popular-science books that eschew equations, Mr Vedral includes a couple and tries his best to explain them to the reader.) What does the equation mean?
The Foundation is a governing body supported by the Venezuela Ministry of Popular Power for Science and Technology, providing free access to ICTs to enable adults and other users in achieving lifelong learning.
It has shown what can be done when people from divergent cultures come together to pursue a common goal, and along the way it has captured the popular imagination like no science project since the moon shots of the 1960s.
Such experiments were common topics of conversation in the Godwin household, where the philosopher William Godwin played host to scientific wizards such as Humphry Davy, who had used the voltaic pile to develop electrolysis and whose sensationally popular lectures proclaimed that science was poised to unleash powers previously unimagined, and perhaps even liberate the spark of life itself.
During his career, Robert Wise cranked out dozens of popular films including westerns and science fiction.
The combination of skeptical experts holding opposing theories, coupled with the shared belief that nutrition science in its current state is inadequate, demands that the findings will be based on rigorous science rather than popular opinion.
One is that if somebody's reviewing, if a critic's reviewing an adult book, a good popular biography or work of science I'd like them to be able to say this is so interesting and so well written that children would enjoy this book as well.
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His science was behind the popular Internet download a few years back of a new human ear grown onto the back of a mouse, a photo that turned the collective stomach of a public still queasy about biotechnology.
In another echo of MBAs, some schools are offering distinctly specialist business tuition: the University of Georgia's Terry College of Business offers a program for would-be music industry executives, while Lehigh University runs a popular course combining business and computer science.
But Clarke seems as popular as ever with his public - a recent exhibition aout him at Science Museum in London was extended from three to 18 months by popular demand.
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