5th September 2013
San Francisco, USA
On 29 August, I had the privilege of attending a ceremony commemorating the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council’s Hartree Centre (HC) and US Lawrence Livermore National Lab (LLNL) in the area of high performance computing (HPC). This MOU, signed by LLNL Director Parney Albright and […]
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17th June 2013
San Francisco, USA
In my mind, when the names Watson and Crick come up in casual conversation (as they do for so many of us), an image of a three-dimensional double helix rotating slowly in front of my eyes immediately comes to mind. Regardless of your own reaction to the mentioning of these famous Cambridge scientists, their discovery […]
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17th June 2013
San Francisco, USA
Arriving in Portland, Oregon recently on the 6am flight from San Francisco, I immediately felt at home – as much as I love the California sunshine, like many Brits I secretly miss the grey skies and drizzle of the UK, and I was delighted to see that the Oregonian weather was very similar. With the […]
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7th June 2013
Los Angeles, USA
The Los Angeles S&I team recently visited NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to meet the Megacities Carbon Project team. The MCP is designed to measure greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in urban areas, starting with Los Angeles (LA). CLARS, a laboratory housing remote-sensing instruments built by JPL researchers, sits atop of Mount Wilson, where it samples […]
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30th May 2013
Chicago, USA
Big Science is expensive, and as justifying why tax dollars should pay for large scientific instruments is more difficult than ever. But Big Science is important and in these times of austerity, researchers and science leaders must do a better job of explaining how large scientific endeavours such as particle accelerators, massive light sources or […]
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9th May 2013
Washington DC, USA
The following is a guest blog post from Suzanne Austin, Deputy Director for Research Councils UK team in the US. I wanted to start this blog post with a joke. You know the one where there’s a historian, biologist and computer scientist in a bar? And they….except they don’t. There are no jokes about these […]
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25th April 2013
Houston, USA
Can you name a living scientist? If you are reading this ‘Partners in Science’ blog, it is likely you can. Unfortunately, a ‘Research! America’ survey conducted in 2011 says that only 34 per cent of Americans can actually name a living scientist. As someone who works everyday with scientists who are doing some truly revolutionary […]
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16th April 2013
Chicago, USA
Life-changing technologies like the automobile, personal computer, and even electric lighting all once faced the same challenges of public perception now faced by clean technology. Following their inception, these were written off as “novelties”, or “luxuries for the wealthy”, before they went on to take the world by storm. Cleantech is now at this tipping […]
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29th January 2013
Washington DC, USA
The UK and US share one of the longest, most productive scientific relationships in the world. Together, we represent over half of the world’s journal citations and nearly 40 percent of global Research & Development funding. We are truly Partners in Science. I’ve got quite the past in the blogosphere. In 2000, I started my […]
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