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By  The answers to some of the biggest challenges facing us this century lie waiting to be discovered in the laboratories and institutions of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. But we must remember, scientists do not operate in a vacuum in such endeavors. Increasingly, policy makers -- often working in the highest seats of government -- are playing an important role in the research discovery scenario, including deciding which projects to fund, and assuring that scientific discoveries and their resulting impacts are sound in safety, ethics and effectiveness for the public. Make...

Rep. Holt defeats IBM computer at Jeopardy! (0) Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ) discusses how funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 is fueling research and development during an event to launch the website ScienceWorksForUS.org on Capitol Hill in Washington on November 17, 2009. UPI/Madeline Marshall | License Photo WASHINGTON, March 2 (UPI) -- U.S. Rep. Rush Holt, D-N.J., has beaten IBM's Watson computer at Jeopardy! Holt, a physicist at Princeton University's Plasma Physics Lab before he entered Congress, was a five-time Jeopardy! winner 35 years ago, back in the days...

Scientists are calling on new US President Joe Biden to revive the cancer moonshot programme, aimed at ending the disease that kills tens of thousands of Americans each year, and which took the life of his son, Beau.

Flag said, fetus, transgender, suggests that there is ideology creeping in here. ideology is the enemy of evidence-based thinking. evidence-based thinking is the antidote for the kind of thinking that is not based on how things actually are. and it is hard enough to make evidence-based decisions without having is the very idea dispair acknowledged. >> dr. rush holt, thank you for joining us with your perspective on all of this. >> thank you. >> chris? more evidence that everything gets easier when you're married. prince harry is now engaged and he got a big get right after it, snagging a one...

Proposal for taking an ax to scientific research grants, the epa and the national institutes for health among other things. rush holt is a former common and now chief executive officer of the american association for the advancement of science. he said of the with white house plan, quote, the administration's propose the cuts would threaten our nation's ability to advance cures for disease, maintain our technological leadership, ensure a more prosperous energy future and train the next generations of scientists and innovators. the person behind that quote joins me now, rush holt, former member...