
Science, technology and the Third World
Abdus Salam believed that the gap between rich and poor nations is one of science and technology. His former student Riazuddin describes efforts to bridge that gap.
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Abdus Salam believed that the gap between rich and poor nations is one of science and technology. His former student Riazuddin describes efforts to bridge that gap.
This is a great time to be an astrophysicist. Over the past 30 years, almost all of the roughly 70 octaves of the electromagnetic spectrum accessible for study have been opened up. Telescopes using ne...
In June 1990, while I was a Fellow at CERN in experimental particle physics, a friend told me that the European Space Agency (ESA) was recruiting new astronauts. Although I loved (and still love!) the...
“May you live in interesting times,” says the old Chinese proverb, and we surely do. We are at a time in history when many fundamental notions about science are changing rapidly and profou...
Would E O Lawrence recognize his laboratory today? Founded in 1931 by the University of California as a venue for Lawrence’s successive generations of ever-larger cyclotrons, today’s Lawre...
Practical, affordable yet unique and exciting new accelerator facilities could advance vital research capabilities for nano- and bioscience, says Swapan Chattopadhyay.
Belorussian, Catalan, Taiwanese, Afrikaans, Japanese, Persian, Russian, Mandarin, Hebrew, Italian, Tagalog, Croatian, Malayalam, Serbian, German, Korean, Swedish, Cantonese, Turkish, Arabic, Romanian,...
Industry pushes economic globalization to strengthen its market position. The process is driven by the need and desire to increase efficiency and reduce costs, but also by the wish to make the best us...
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is without a doubt the most technologically challenging project that CERN has ever embarked upon. It is also the most costly, and it was approved under the strictest fi...
Galileo’s remark, “measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so”, says it all with respect to contemporary quantitative science. He gives pride of place not only to...