Big Science in the 21st Century

Big Science in the 21st CenturyThe essays in this book debate the nature and extent of the societal impacts of Big Science and the mechanisms that generate such effects, as well as highlight the complex realities that can be used as guidelines to fund Big Science facilities, and how we can maximise their impact.

Inbreeding and its effects on phenotypes

a translation

The fundamental difference between genome editing and classical genetic modification techniques is that the improved genome editing animal or plant will be indistinguishable from the non-edited version of the organism

this time from Egypt

and careful and responsible management is essential for their growth and maintenance

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the problem of poverty and the politics of communal responsibility

It also discusses the decline of biodiversity in agriculture by using the case of the River Wye in the UK as an example

technical analysis

initially because of the advent of cable and satellite television and the variety of entertainment channels they offer

This book provides an utterly original analysis of the social and political origins of the war on terror in liberal regimes of disciplinary and biopolitical forms of power

Monitoring forest conditions and detecting changes are necessary to develop early warning systems for predicting disturbances and especially natural disasters