Frozen species, deep time, and marauding black holes
It all goes with the territory for Gregory Benford, a mild-mannered professor who doubles as the working physicist’s science-fiction writer
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Focused on the future
David Blake thinks tomorrow’s corporate leaders need information, technology … and flexibility
Forecasting risky business
Philippe Jorion is advancing ‘new knowledge’ revolutionizing the financial industry
Two-way streets
From Belfast to Johannesburg, Sarajevo to Jerusalem, Scott Bollens studies the links between planning and peace
Which way democracy?
Leading a team of social scientists, Russell Dalton is taking the pulse of the governed
From chaos, order
For economist Art De Vany, the natural order that emerges spontaneously from chaos is more efficient and responsive than anything a planner could devise
East meets West
UCI researchers using high-tech tools are gaining insight into how the Eastern practice of acupuncture works. New medical treatments may result
Information is power
For Hoda Anton-Culver, data is key to the early detection and treatment of cancer
Inside information
The needle on the television-like screen stabs repeatedly into a round shape that has been identified as a lymph node. The images are shadowy, reminiscent of cloud formations seen on radar sweeps, but one rhythmically throbbing form is unmistakable. It is the beating heart of the patient who lies sedated and sleeping on the narrow […]
Mixing it up
A chance meeting, a few martinis and some ‘damn good science’ may get MS/spinal cord injury patients up and about