Presents a viewpoint concerning the impact of recent scientific advances on society. Discusses biological discoveries, space exploration, computer technology, development of new astronomical theories, the behavioral sciences, and basic research. Challenges to keeping science current with technological advancement are also discussed. (DS)

Asks questions relating electrical resistivity and observed size effects. Electron mean free path and thermodynamic fluctuations are discussed. Experiments with granular aluminum are outlined and described which allow the study of size effects, as well as the coupling and the transport processes between them. (CS)

Describes the educational process involved in becoming a scientist, the different dimensions of academic science, industrialized science, the scientists' management of research and development, scientists in their social context, and the vocational motivation for becoming a scientist. (DS)

The Transportation Training and Research Center of the Polytechnic Institute of New York is discussed, along with some issues that must be considered when interdisciplinary research is to be performed at an academic institution. (BB)

Provides a brief review of the latest developments in nuclear chemistry. Nuclear research today is directed toward increased activity in radiopharmaceuticals and formation of new isotopes by high-energy, heavy-ion collisions. (Author/BB)

Examines a specific experiment in view of its ethical problems and possible scientific advances. (LS)

Contained in this volume are abstracts of papers presented at the 144th national meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Included are abstracts of symposium presentations, contributed papers, and poster sessions. Topics include the natural, physical, and social sciences. (BB)

This project represents an attempt to systematically investigate the ethical problems and issues arising from scientific research, and to develop material for an undergraduate course in this area. The investigation was based primarily on interviews of scientists and by an extensive review of literature. The text is designed for science majors at…

This annual publication aims to provide a brief summary of active research topics in British universities and other institutions. This volume, the first of a three-volume series, is divided into broad subject fields and the university/college entries are arranged alphabetically within them. Also included within this volume on the physical sciences…

This document presents a report of medical microbiological research at the universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Newcastle. The article further stresses the difficulties of the scientists as they face their three-fold responsibilities of teaching, diagnostic work and research. (HS)

Discloses the proposed 1977 Federal budget of $24.7 billion for research and development which is an increase of 11 percent in overall Federal obligations and a 9 percent upswing in the applied and basic research portions. (LS)

Knowledge of where and how lightning forms is emerging from the first concerted research effort on thunderstorms in thirty years. (Author/BB)

This paper defines mass science, presents an assessment of its uses and abuses in China during the Cultural Revolution decade, and analyzes the future of mass science in China. (Author/BB)

Tests of the predictivity of the biorhythm theory using 30 staff members of a psychiatry service and 50 patients of a college health center showed low correlations between the observed and predicted feeling states. Most were not statistically significant. (BB)