Reports on a series of suggestions to save skylab from falling into the earth's atmosphere and being destroyed. (CP)

Described are the efforts being made in the Sudan to develop a significant scientific community. (SL)

If the research councils in Britain--those agencies primarily responsible for the funding of research at universities--are forced to close their doors, the expenditure on research through government will decline. (HS)

Summarizes events of a conference on evolutionary biology in Chicago entitled: "Macroevolution." Reviews the theory of modern synthesis, a term used to explain Darwinism in terms of population biology and genetics. Issues presented at the conference are discussed in detail. (CS)

The Gordon Research Conferences were established to stimulate research in universities, research foundations, and industrial laboratories. The topics for the conferences are listed as well as the locations and scheduled presentations at each conference. (CS)

Discusses a recent American Association for the Advancement of Science symposium that focused on: infringements of scientific freedom in both foreign countries and the U.S., boundaries of scientific freedom, social and professional responsibilities of scientists, and freedom of science teaching. (MLH)

Presents the views of a prominent molecular biologist regarding recombinant DNA research. Contained are arguments for continuing research and a reassurance that the potential hazards from this type of research are overstressed. (CS)

Presents a manual of techniques addressed to the scientist who has done intrinsically interesting research and is about to present it orally to a scientific audience. (MKR)

An autobiography of a female ecologist working in the Costa Rican rainforest is provided as an inspiration for girls. The scientist briefly tells her life story and describes her research activities. (LZ)

Scientist William J. Dreyer has hypothesized that the cell surface proteins in the nose that detect odors also help assemble embryos. These olfactory receptors and related proteins act as identifiers, much like the last few digits of a telephone number, that help cells to find their intended neighbors in a developing embryo. Discusses the research…

Describes economic and professional difficulties experienced by scientists in Russia today and reports on efforts to reverse these trends in places such as Akademgorodok, a community with 35 research institutes, academies of agriculture and medicine, and a state university. Reports such positive trends as declining numbers of scientists departing…

Chwalisz (2003) proposed an evidence-based practice model for training in counseling psychology, based on the apparent failures of the scientist-practitioner model and the need for an expanded view of scientific evidence. Although I am sympathetic to the model she developed, and also to a local clinical scientist model that I have written about…

Stories can be a valuable tool for the career researcher. Questions arise, though, about how best to approach stories analytically such that their insights can be fully realised. In this paper I apply cultural theorist Raymond Williams' analysis of cultural processes as dominant, residual and emergent (1977) to the narratives generated in a recent…