Science meets Parliament in Canberra

Computer Science Meets Medical Science

In the past 20–30 years at least two technical advances have made quantification in pathology at a large scale possible. At the time the computing power of affordable computers increased, interest to deploy tasks emerged that were previously very laborious to perform. Combined with digital camera systems, many new possibilities became available. Examples of such measurements that were previousl...

Science meets farming in Africa.

www.sciencemag.org SCIENCE VOL 334 9 DECEMBER 2011 1317 COVER Scanning electron micrograph of a female Anopheles stephensi mosquito, a transmitter of malaria (proboscis length: ~0.6 millimeters). To drive malaria eradication, new medicines that target all stages of the malaria life cycle are needed. In their study, Meister et al. used thousands of A. stephensi mosquitos to identify chemical cla...

Cognitive Science Meets Psychoanalysis

the contemporary intellectual world is that between cognitive science and cultural theory. Cognitive scientists are committed to the idea that we can follow the conceptions of the mind to their zero level of the brain. As a result, speculation about our conceptions on their own terms will always mislead us into false problems. These are the problems that preoccupy cultural theorists. For the la...

When Science Meets Religion

Art meets science?

What’s the best thing about HHMI funding? There's lots of it. The annual HHMI budget was $330 million in 1994, of which about 80 % was spent on the 227 HHMI investigators. For those who need lots of money for mice or equipment, HHMI funding can be the answer to a prayer. And HHMI, unlike most other funding bodies, does not discourage long-term, risky research or projects with little obvious rel...