14 THE SCIENTIST | the-scientist.comQUOTESSpeaking of Science
Many key positions remain
unfulfilled, divisions are
understaffed, and process
has slowed to a crawl.
—An anonymous US Fish and Wildlife Service
staff er answering a survey conducted by the Union of
Concerned Scientists in which several thousand federal
scientists weighed in on the state of science under the
Trump administration (August 14)BY EMILY COX AND HENRY RATHVONACROSS- Cinematic player of a human
hematophage - Dicotyledon used to make wreaths
- 1911 atomic discovery of Ernest
Rutherford - Grouping between class and family
- Murder : crows :: ___ : monkeys
- Element used to make semiconductors
- Koala, possum, or wombat
1 7. Have as a natural environment - Venom-injecting snake
- Peninsula bridging Asia and Africa
- Secretion of an endocrine gland
- Mammals with large calves
- Hallucinogen from a cactus
DOWN- Wearing a natural coat of wool
- Lizard that licks its own eyeballs
- 1973 fi lm of a cryopreservation
subject - Bikini, for one
- In math, the √ sign
- Where phonatory muscles are housed
- Hirsute biped of cryptozoology
- Evergreen shrub with berries and
spiny leaves - Division, vis-à-vis multiplication
- Puzzle solved without pen or pencil
- Change states of matter, in a way
- Seawater
- Prefi x on synthesis
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ANDRZEJ KRAUZEWomen have a huge capability,
sense of problem solving
and reasoning that they can
contribute to science but both
my own experience and general
statistics suggest this capability
is regularly overlooked
and we don’t receive equal
opportunity to participate.
—Michaela Kendall, an environmental scientist at
Birmingham City University who made a freedom of
information request to the UK’s Engineering and Physical
Sciences Research Council, revealing that 90 percent of
the government grants awarded for such research over the
past decade have gone to men (The Guardian, August 10)