Scientists
Information and resources on famous scientists & philosophers of science. Thanks to the World Wide Web, scientists and philosophers of science will unearth a bevy of valuable resources pertaining to their field of study. Among these sites concentrating on the interrelationship of philosophy and science, there are those belonging to online versions of journals as well as organizations that provide literature and resources and arrange various courses, events, and other activities. Some sites feature historical data on philosophers of science like Kuhn, Newton, Galileo, and Aristotle, while others display materials on such pertinent subjects as causation and thought experimentation. This section features various online resources on the philosophy of science.
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| Famous Scientists in Genetic Research Today genetics has become a frontier area for scientific research. There have been revolutionary breakthroughs in this field... |
Japanese Scientists Create Mice With No Fear of Cats Tom and Jerry would never have been the same - Japanese scientists have created mice with no fear of cats |
| List of Famous Scientists in History Here is a list of some of the famous scientists in history and a brief about them. |
Scientists Warn of Ipod's Shock Value Beware: listen to an iPod outdoors during a thunderstorm, and the last thing you hear could be great balls of fire. |
| Scientists Try to Solve Mystery of Vanished Lake in Chile A glacial lake on the southern tip of Chile has vanished, leaving behind a dry crater and a scientific mystery. |
Iceman Bled to Death, Scientists Say Archaeologists think they have solved the longstanding mystery of how Otzi, the world's most famous iceman, met his end: an... |
| Scientists Pave Way for Good Hair Day Research findings on hair-producing follicles claimed as major step forward in quest for a cure for baldness. |
Scientists' Stark Warning on Reality of Warmer World Hundreds of millions may be put at risk, says report - Complaints of political interference with findings |
| Russia's Scientists Shun Putin's Embrace Prestigious academy defies Kremlin takeover - Thousands vote against rule by bureaucrats |
Scientist Plans to Crack Genetic Secrets of the Deep - From Comfort of His 100ft Yacht Controversial human genome sequencer aims to map DNA of microbes. |
| Forensic Scientist Uses Dna to Explore Dali's Bizarre Genius Samples taken from nasal feeding tubes could also help to authenticate works. |
Climate Change: Scientists Warn It May Be Too Late to Save the Ice Caps A critical meltdown of ice sheets and severe sea level rise could be inevitable because of global warming, the world's... |
| The Scientists Spoke Cautiously But the Graphs Said It All This is how the world ends: not with a bang, nor with a whimper, but with a PowerPoint presentation. |
Scientists Offered Cash to Dispute Climate Study Scientists and economists have been offered $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world's largest oil... |
| Bush Administration Accused of Doctoring Scientists' Reports on Climate Change Inconvenient conclusions censored, hearing told - Researchers warned not to talk about global warming |
Scientists Aim to Save Lesser-known Mammals at Risk of Extinction Public urged to back British campaign for animals such as pygmy hippopotamus. |
| Scientists Find Way to Slash Cost of Drugs Indian-backed approach could aid poor nations and cut NHS bills. |
Life on Mars? Scientists Say Pictures Are First Evidence of Flowing Water Scientists have discovered tantalising evidence of water gushing down gullies on Mars, dramatically boosting the chances... |
| WWF Award for Nasa Scientist Who Sounded Climate Alarm A leading Nasa researcher who pioneered the case for tough action to combat climate change in the US has been awarded the... |
Catastrophic Mudslide Could Last 100 Years, Say Scientists · Land in East Java likely to collapse as thousands flee · Attempts to seal channels will 'probably not succeed' |
| Scientists Take to Air to Learn Storm Secrets · Missions will help identify dangerous weather pattern · Shuttle launch at risk as Hurricane Ernesto flies in |
Scientists Make Human Stem Cells Without Destroying the Embryo · Breakthrough hailed as answer to ethical doubts · Critics raise questions about new technique |
| Gates Foundation Gives Aids Scientists $287m Three British scientists looking for an Aids vaccine will be among the collaborators receiving a massive $287m (£156m)... |
US Scientists Back Manmade Warming Claim US scientists have endorsed the contentious findings of a global warming study that showed humans are drastically altering... |
| Global Warming Predictions Are Underestimated Say Scientists Climate change models have dramatically underestimated the extent to which global warming will raise temperatures,... |
Scientists Find Lost Civilisation Buried By Volcano · Indonesian eruption was largest in modern times · Village's 10,000 residents died in moments |
| Respected Norwegian Scientist Faked Study on Oral Cancer A Norwegian cancer scientist has been exposed as a fake after falsifying a study on oral cancer published in the renowned... |
Disgraced Gene Scientist Puts Blame on Team The disgraced scientist Woo-suk Hwang asked fellow South Koreans to forgive him yesterday for fraudulent claims relating to... |
| Disgraced Stem Cell Scientist Blames Researchers The disgraced South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-Suk today apologised for fabricating human stem cell breakthroughs, but... |
Korean Scientist Faked Human Cloning Research South Korea's fallen scientific hero Hwang Woo-suk faked all of his landmark claims to have cloned human embryonic stem... |
| Stem Cell Scientist Denies Falsifying Data The world's leading stem cell scientist, Woo-suk Hwang, yesterday denied allegations of falsifying data, but asked the US... |
Embryo Scientist Quits Team Over Ethics Fear · Korean partner accused of lies over egg donation · Departure could affect future of stem-cell work |
| Scientist Who Braved Ulcer Wins Nobel An Australian microbiologist who swallowed mouthfuls of bacteria to prove they cause stomach ulcers was awarded the 2005... |
Man of Peace Dies - Scientist Who Turned Back on A-bomb Project Scientists yesterday paid tribute to Sir Joseph Rotblat, the nuclear physicist and Nobel peace prize winner who resigned... |
| Scientists Discover Mist Opportunity Scientists have cracked a problem that popular opinion suggests they suffer from most: steamed-up spectacles. |
Republicans Accused of Witch-hunt Against Climate Change Scientists Some of America's leading scientists have accused Republican politicians of intimidating climate-change experts by placing... |
| Scientists Show How Sugar Pill Eases Pain It may be enough just to think about an aspirin, according to US scientists. Ponder painkillers, and the brain begins to... |
US Military Sends Scientists to Film School He will have the body of Arnold Schwarzenegger and the brain of Stephen Hawking. Step forward the Pentagon's perfect... |
| Scientists Expect Go-ahead for Nuclear Fusion Reactor Scientists should finally get the go-ahead to build a prototype nuclear fusion reactor which could offer a clean source of... |
Top Scientists Get £245m to Revolutionise World Health Some of the world's most inventive scientists were yesterday awarded grants totalling $450m (£245m) to turn their... |
| US Scientists Pile on Pressure Over Climate Change US scientists have increased the pressure on George Bush and other world leaders to tackle climate change by signing a... |
US Scientists Push for Go-ahead to Genetically Modify Smallpox Virus US scientists are awaiting World Health Assembly approval to begin experiments to genetically modify the smallpox virus,... |
| Scientists Discover Clue That May Turn Sleeping Beauty Into a Life Saver By successfully inducing a state of reversible hibernation in mice, scientists have managed to make a mammal hibernate on... |
New Tsunami Fear As Scientists Find Dangerous Stresses on Ocean Floor Second major earthquake could strike Indian Ocean within a year. |
| Dried-up Garden of Eden Can Flourish Again, Say Scientists The marshes of Mesopotamia, thought by some biblical scholars to be the site of the Garden of Eden, could be restored,... |
Scientists Thrilled By Bird's Eye View of Titan Jubiliant European scientists yesterday unveiled the secrets of mysterious Titan, a world that has a surface like crème... |
| Scientists Dig Up Family Skeletons It has been a mystery for more than a century - is a skull in an Austrian basement really that of arguably the greatest... |
Scientists Herald Malaria Breakthrough Trials in Mozambique point to potential of vaccine. After 50 years of failure, a vaccine against malaria could be in sight,... |
| Scientists Find Way to 'turn Off' Cancer Scientists in California have found a way to "turn off" a gene that makes cancerous cells lethal. Scientists in... |
Scientists' Sweet Smell of Success Two US researchers yesterday shared the £760,000 Nobel prize for physiology or medicine for their discovery of the... |
| Scientists Left to Pick Up the Pieces Over the $250m Can That Fell to Earth Stunned British and American scientists watched a seven-year dream fall to Earth yesterday at 150mph, potentially smashing... |
'Cowboy' Nuclear Scientists Ride Roughshod Over Lab Security Secret work on US nuclear weapons at one of America's top laboratories has been halted and a government inquiry launched... |
| Anger at Us Ban on Aids Scientists Bangkok conference forced to cancel meetings and retract papers after authors stopped from attending. |
Scientists Ready for Full-face Transplant US scientists are preparing to perform the world's first full-face transplant. The 24-hour operation involves lifting an... |
| Scientists Hand Putin Weapon to Kill Kyoto Treaty Leading Russian scientists told President Vladimir Putin that the Kyoto emissions treaty discriminates against Russia,... |
Never Mind the Weather Overkill: Scientists Praise Hollywood's Global Warning Hail stones the size of tennis balls are knocking people out in Japan. Shortly afterwards it is snowing in India. But that... |
| Scientists to Search for Noah's Ark on Turkish Mountain Expedition will study 'man-made object' shown by satellite photos. The CIA calls it the "Ararat anomaly".... |
Global Warming May Melt Greenland's Ice, Scientists Warn Greenland's icy mountains and the island's entire ice cap could disappear in the next 1,000 years because of global warming... |
| Scientists Lift Hopes in Malaria War European scientists have identified a new way to stop malaria in its tracks. Instead of preventing the malaria parasite... |
Scientists Adrift on Arctic Ice Hope for Air Rescue Twelve Russian scientists were stranded on a disintegrating free-floating icepack near the north pole last night with... |
| Scientists Modify Sperm to Add New Fish to the Gene Pool For the first time, US and Japanese scientists have genetically modified sperm, grown it in a laboratory dish and used it... |
Top French Scientists in Threat to Quit More than 5,300 leading French scientists have threatened to resign unless the government increases the country's research... |
| Noah Claim Annoys Scientists Noah and his ark have entered the choppy waters of a debate about the age and geological history of the Grand Canyon. For... |
Antarctic Ice Shelf Melting, Scientists Warn A giant ice shelf the size of Scotland is melting rapidly in the Antarctic, scientists have warned today. Two sections of... |
| Scientists Discover Deep Sea Enigma Ocean survey could bring to light many unknown species. The creature, as viewed from the submarine moving about the ocean... |
Scientists fight to save ancestral bone bank Aborigines demand return of skeletal remains. Along the walls of a crumbling Cambridge basement, rows of brown cardboard... |
| Scientists Call for International Ban on Human Cloning More than 60 of the world's leading science academies called yesterday for a UN ban on the reproductive cloning of humans,... |
Scientists Announce First Cloned Horse Italian scientists have announced the birth of a cloned female foal named Prometea. Prometea is not only the first horse... |
| Scientists ‘Discover’ Emotions In Animals Researchers working in neurobiology and behavioral observation seem to be learning what pet lovers have known all along:... |
Couch Potatoes Are Born Idle, Say Scientists Couch potatoes may be born, not self-made. Research from New Zealand suggests that overeating and sluggish behaviour could... |
| Global Warming May Be Speeding Up, Fears Scientist Alarm at 'unusual' heatwaves across northern hemisphere. One of Europe's leading scientists yesterday raised the... |
Scientists Transplant Wombs Into Lab Mice Twelve laboratory mice in Sweden recently gave birth to live pups after scientists surgically transplanted wombs into them... |
| Secret of long life is to become scientist For a long life, study science. For the best chance of an alcohol-related death, try medicine, dentistry or the veterinary... |
Scientists Bend Sunlight to the Operating Theatre Israeli scientists have devised the ultimate in blue sky thinking - a beam of sunlight as a surgeon's scalpel. A team at... |
| Japanese scientists take first step towards cloning ice age beast After a six-year search Japanese scientists are preparing to clone prehistoric woolly mammoths from frozen DNA samples... |
Human fertility scientists under pressure to rein in unethical work of mavericks Scientists in the field of human fertility are coming under pressure to rein in maverick researchers whose experiments push... |
| Scientists Puzzled By Blob on the Beach Call it for the moment the blob, or the creature from the deep. An enigmatic lump of gelatinous flesh washed ashore on the... |
Scientist who took on smallpox finds a tougher nut to crack Don Francis, founder and president of VaxGen, is not facing personal hardship after the failure of AidsVax, the first Aids... |
| Scientists Develop Gm 'protato' to Feed India's Poorest Children The Indian government raised the global biotechnology stakes yesterday by saying it intended to feed "nutritionally... |
Aborigines Clash With Scientists Over Bones Vital evidence 'will be lost for ever' if ancestral remains are returned. A furious row has broken out between British... |
| Breakthrough for Scientists in Fight Against Malaria Parasite Researchers have opened the way for new treatments of malaria, the scourge that threatens 500 million worldwide and kills a... |
Scientists Fine-tune Hunt for Et Radio astronomers are to focus on 150 locations in space next week in the search for ET. They have narrowed the hunt for... |
| Scientists in Seventh Heaven After Stardust Find US scientists have for the first time collected samples of the stuff of songs and dreams - stardust. High-flying Nasa... |
Scientists Discover the Harbinger of Drought Subtle temperature changes in tropical seas may trigger northern hemisphere's long, dry spells. The four-year droughts that... |
| Scientists Hail Magnetic Clue to Planets' Past A belch of hot rock on the lunar surface 4bn years ago might throw new light on the making of planets and explain the... |
Scientist Cries Hoax As Cult Fails to Provide Clone Proof The last shreds of authenticity clinging to claims by a bizarre cult that it created the world's first human clone were... |
| Cult Scientists Claim First Human Cloning Calls for worldwide ban as anger at 'mavericks' grows. |
Swiss Scientists 95% Sure That Bin Laden Recording Was Fake Scientists in Switzerland say they are almost certain that a recent audio tape attributed to Osama bin Laden is a fake. The... |
| Woman to give birth to clone, claims scientist An Italian fertility doctor who has claimed without proof that several women are carrying cloned babies said today that one... |
Scientists condemn new gene technique Researchers have developed a technique to speed evolution by inserting human cancer-causing genes into animals and plants. |
| Scientist Defends Tibet Expedition Campaigners against the Chinese occupation of Tibet have criticised a British microbiologist and his team over plans to... |
Leading scientists seek action over biological weapons World leaders in science are today warning that a concerted effort must be made to stop the worldwide spread of the... |
| Scientists fear deadly virus has arrived in UK Scientists are urgently trying to determine whether a killer virus wreaking havoc in the US has arrived in Britain. |
Nobel prize for British and US scientists who used worms to decode the book of life The discovery of the myriad little deaths which lead to life brought the most coveted prize in world medicine to two... |
| Scientists Put Together Last Hours of Frozen Stone Age Hunter Forensic scientists have reconstructed the last two meals of a man who died 5,000 years ago, and perhaps worked out why he... |
Scientists Count Cost of Euro Allergy Swiss scientists reveal just how allergenic euro coins are to those suffering from nickel allergy. |
| Scientists Shocked at Gm Gene Transfer Weeds have become stronger and fitter by cross-breeding with genetically modified crops, leading to fears that superweeds... |
Scientist Denies Anthrax Link Man at centre of investigation says FBI has ruined his life. The former army scientist at the centre of the FBI... |
| American Nuclear Scientists Tell Bush to Ratify Test Treaty The US National Academy of Sciences issued a report yesterday strongly backing US ratification of the comprehensive test... |
US Scientists Admit the Truth - New Discovery Was an Elementary Fabrication What was hailed as a major scientific discovery of two new heavy elements three years ago now turns out to have been based... |
| US Scientists Create Polio Virus With Mail Order Chemicals Scientists in the US have, for the first time, fabricated a working copy of a dangerous disease virus from scratch in the... |
Scientists Find Key Evidence of Our Oldest Relative After 25 Years Searching the Sahara A skull unearthed in the deserts of Chad pushes back the date when the ancestral line of humans diverged from that of the... |
| FBI Investigates Anthrax Scientist FBI agents investigating the anthrax attacks that killed five people have searched the Maryland home of a former US... |
Scientists Claim Cloning Success Researchers in the US have fabricated and implanted primitive artificial kidneys using tissue from a cloned animal embryo,... |
| Scientists Pledge to Clone Extinct Tasmanian Tiger A team of Australian scientists pledged yesterday to salve their country's conscience by bringing a cloned Tasmanian tiger... |
Scientists Attack Mosquito Genes to Avert 3m Deaths From Malaria US scientists have genetically modified a malarial mosquito to block transmission of the world's most dangerous parasite. |
| Scientists see signs of culture in scars of Palaeolithic punch-up Scientists have reconstructed evidence of a murderous attack on a young adult male 36,000 years ago. |
Scientists Warn of Himalayan Floods More than 40 lakes high in the Himalayas, formed from rapidly melting glaciers, are expected to burst their banks in the... |