Cooperation can help to get the message across: those who study natural phenomena that pose risks to society need to work more closely with social scientists to ensure their science is put into practice

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Communication is more important in natural hazards research than purely translating scientific results, as individuals, communities and institutions respond to risk in complex ways. Researchers should work with social scientists who can assess the full costs of a natural disaster. There are already collaborations between researchers and social scientists in the field of climate change, but raising funds for cross-disciplinary activities is a major obstacle.

Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities, Social Scientists, Forecasts and trends, Practice, Natural disasters

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Can biological phenomena be understood by humans?

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Modern day biologists are in danger of delegating the job of understanding biology to computers. Nobel laureat Robert Laughlin looks at protein and sees an emergent phenomenon whose properties cannot be derived from the properties of its parts. Klaus Shulten and David Botstein believe that modelling aids thinking, helping to generate hypotheses, and Botstein argues that it makes sense to use a computer to place the data in some sort of order.

Biologists, Information management

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Universality of rare fluctuations in turbulence and critical phenomena

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Theorists are continually challenged by the statistical treatment of treatment of three-dimensional turbulent flow. An analogy with equilibrium phase transitions has been suggested. The idea is approached experimentally, providing a strong analogy between statistical behaviour and that of a model of the critical behaviour of a ferromagnet. The large fluctuations experienced by both systems were limited only by system size.

Research, Observations, Ferromagnetism, Turbulence

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