Word: scientificizing
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“Doctors know a lot about alcohol problems and addiction to profitable street drugs, but they know little about anabolic steroids, they’re poorly understood,” he said. “This is an area where [the scientific community] needs to be educated as...
Scientists at Harvard’s Center for Astrophysics are celebrating the discovery of the smallest known exoplanet—a planet orbiting a star other than the Sun—announced Tuesday by European astronomers. The new planet, Gliese 581 e, is 1.9 times the size of Earth and...
Q may have retired - he hasn't appeared in the last couple of Bond films - but science and technology are still vital to security. That's why MI5, Britain's domestic security service, is currently advertising for a kind of real-life Q. The new "chief scientific adviser", an ad...
If the past few years are anything to go by, the successful candidate will help MI5 grapple with terrorism, work to stymie the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and sharpen its surveillance and counter-intelligence efforts. "There's an enormous amount of scientific content in this role," Professor John...
The tricky nature of the job means a fellow of the Royal Society, Britain's independent scientific academy, or its Royal Academy of Engineers, is most likely to fill the position, the headhunter's document suggests.