Arab science must help itself

There must be a prokaryote somewhere: microbiology's search for itself.

While early microbiologists showed considerable interest in the problem of the natural (evolutionary) relationships among prokaryotes, by the middle of this century that problem had largely been discarded as being unsolvable. In other words, the science of microbiology developed without an evolutionary framework, the lack of which kept it a weak discipline, defined largely by external forces. M...

Psychology: Science in spite of itself.

rather than obviate, human creativity. In Deep Thinking, Kasparov also delves into the renaissance of machine learning, an AI subdomain focusing on generalpurpose algorithms that learn from data. He highlights the radical differences between Deep Blue and AlphaGo, a learning algorithm created by my company DeepMind to play the massively complex game of Go. Last year, AlphaGo defeated Lee Sedol,...

Help Wanted: Science Manager

Feature Open access, freely available online " I didn't want to be just another MBA, " says Pascal Herzer, one of the fi rst recipients of a new graduate credential known as the professional science master's, or PSM. " Not many people have the ability to understand science and business, and [the PSM] program was designed for that very purpose. " PSMs are two-year American master's degrees fi na...

Conservation science must engender hope to succeed.

Canada must help the wounded children of Gaza.