First spearheaded by the CSA's Nicole Buckley, chief scientist for life sciences, the partnership produced a national workshop in June.

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Meanwhile a US move to recognise life scientist Shi Yigong has sparked debate.

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Where in your community can an engineer easily meet a life scientist?

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Margaret recently offered me a powerful example of someone capable of acting as a loving scientist in her own life even while overcome with debilitating emotion.

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HUNTSVILLE, Alabama (CNN) -- The best time in the life of a rocket scientist is the time spent standing by a launch pad or a test stand, watching a brand-new rocket go through performance tests.

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"Anywhere you go and try to harvest fish with a trawl you are going to destroy any coral that lives there, and there is example after example of the damage that is done by trawlers, " says Ron O'Dor, a senior scientist on the Census of Marine Life.

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No man, no scientist, no doctor has the right to take life.

BBC: Battle between anti-abortion and pro-choice campaigners

William was the son of scientist Max Newman who was a key figure in Turing's life.

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His life took another twist after he came upon another leading scientist.

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"It's quite likely that this moon will now join the ranks of Mars and Jupiter's moon Europa where you might have liquid water - and the biologists could start getting interested in this being a place were life might possibly arise, " enthused Dr Torrence Johnson, a Cassini scientist from Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California.

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