US science: The Obama experiment

How Obama is using the science of change.

Two weeks before Election Day, Barack Obama's campaign was mobilizing millions of supporters; it was a bit late to start rewriting get-out-the-vote (GOTV) scripts. "BUT, BUT, BUT," deputy field director Mike Moffo wrote to Obama's GOTV operatives nationwide, "What if I told you a worldfamous team of genius scientists, psychologists and economists wrote down the best techniques for GOTV scriptin...

IAPAC recommendations to the Obama administration for the US response to the global HIV pandemic.

The International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care (IAPAC) represents more than 12 000 physicians and allied health care providers in over 100 countries who are daily caring for and providing support to men, women, and children living with HIV/AIDS. In addition, IAPAC advances advocacy, education, and technical assistance activities in the United States and abroad with the aim of improvin...

Comparing the Active Centers in the Area of Ethics in Science and Technology in the US, UK, China and India

Background: Nowadays, life increasingly relies on inclusive scientific and technological infrastructures. Today, the use of technology has been manifested in all aspects of people's lives, so that decision-making processes in all aspects are based on the indicators of science and technology. Science has even come up with issues such as ethics and tradition, so traditional issues of ethics in th...

The New Horizons Radio Science Experiment

The New Horizons (NH) Radio Science Experiment, REX, is designed to determine conditions on Pluto as manifest in the atmospheric state at the surface and a few scale heights higher. Expected absolute accuracies in n, p, and T at the surface are 4·10 m−3, 0.1 Pa, and 3 K, respectively, obtained by radio occultation of a 4.2 cm-λ signal transmitted from Earth at 10–30 kW and received at the NH sp...

Science: moving us in the right direction.