Sentences with phrase «[junior scientist»

The study was funded by EnCana, the drilling company whose wells the EPA had initially blamed for the contamination.Though the role of fracking remains contested, the advising scientists recommend that the EPA should qualify its conclusions about the risks posed by acknowledging gaps in the existing data and concerning cases like Pavillion.

Enough that the brilliant minds behind Crispr - Cas9 — University of California at Berkeley's Jennifer Doudna, her academic partner Emmanuelle Charpentier of the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Germany, and rival Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard scientist Feng Zhang — and the various biotechs affiliated with them are embroiled in an ugly, global patent spat over the rights to the tech.

About 100 years after Dickinson's death, scientists began to formally study the power that a smile confers on the closing of a deal.

The answer, of course, is skepticism and logic, two areas in which scientists generally excel.

For example, as Taya Cohen, Ph.D., an assistant professor of organizational behavior and theory at Carnegie Mellon University, told New Scientist, people who score low on the Honesty - Humility factor might be more likely to cheat on their time sheets or steal office supplies.

But when paired with a star, they interact in a way that allows scientists to find them using X-rays.

De Brouwer founded Starlab NV / SA, a multidisciplinary laboratory in Brussels where about 130 scientists worked on various projects, encompassing bits of everything from time travel to neuroscience.

Other tech leaders and scientists are on the same page as the SpaceX founder, including Stephen Hawking and Bill Gates.

If that threshold is exceeded, climate scientists believe subsequent severe weather events will be irreversible.

Scientists have tied the quakes to the injection of saltwater, a normal byproduct of oil and gas drilling, into deep disposal wells and underground caverns.

The charge leveled by the advising scientists is not that the EPA erred in the 20 peer - reviewed studies it conducted and 3,500 more studies and reports it reviewed.

Polish scientists have shown that male and female preferences for a height difference (known scientifically as sexual dimorphism) change based on how tall they are, perhaps so that people can widen their own dating pool.

Sally Augustin, Ph.D., is an environmental scientist with a specialization in color theory.

Since the days of Nikola Tesla, scientists have experimented with transmitting electricity through the air.

In the human version, scientists use an RNA guide to direct an enzyme, Cas - 9, to a specific point in any organism's DNA — where, like an eagle - eyed copy editor, the enzyme snips out an errant letter or sequence as if it were expunging a typo.

North Korea's Kim Jong Un has bought his way in to talks with China's President Xi Jinping, South Korea's President Moon Jae - in, and US President Donald Trump with a commitment to denuclearize his country — but doing so could open up the world to the tremendous risk of loose nukes and loose nuclear scientists.

RevMedX, an Oregon company staffed by soldiers and scientists, has created a novel way to plug a gunshot wound in seconds.

Another lucky bunch, memorably dubbed «superagers» by scientists, retain the clarity of mind of someone in their 50s well into their 80s.

Many of the data scientists employed today have jumped ship from the academic world; they're among the relative few who know what to do with the massive, unstructured sets of data the world is now awash in.

But the advising scientists» critique stands to reignite the debate over how to regulate a practice that critics say could contaminate water supplies and exacerbate global warming.

In the long run, the scientists want neural dust motes in the brain and spinal cord.

«You may think magic is make - believe, but this little bean has scientists saying they've found the magic weight - loss cure for every body type,» Dr. Oz said of green - coffee extract on his show in 2012.

To try and stop the spread of disease, scientists have started looking into how to quell mosquito populations.

Out of all 50 states, Michigan performed the best in this field — boasting a 200 % increase in computer and information research scientists between 2012 and 2016.

Eventually, Evans» cofounders fell away, but he continued working with a small group of scientists.

Professor Zhu Chaodong, the Institute of Zoology's lead scientist in insect evolution studies at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, said it would be a «catastrophe» if billions of cockroaches were suddenly released into the environment — be it through human error or a natural disaster like an earthquake that damaged the building.

Walker: Scientists have designed experiments and they've been able to demonstrate objectively that when people say that they're doing something in that dream that they actually are.

Mobify wasn't even looking for a data scientist; it had posted an opening for a junior analyst.

«Pangaea runs a sailing expedition vessel to help scientists collect marine debris all around the world.»

More news on the GBM front: Tomorrow (Thursday) and Friday, the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, is hosting a glioblastoma immuno - oncology research summit in Los Angeles — bringing together top industry and academic scientists to share their research.

Data scientists typically like to tackle big challenges, and businesses often provide an opportunity to do so.

But some scientists think this ingrained social preference for tall husbands and fathers may not be doing us any good anymore.

It's an important move, one that will have a ripple effect across the lucrative «brain game» industry that — despite concerns from prominent psychologists, cognitive scientists and neuroscientists — has been operating without much regulatory oversight for years.

Criminologists and other behavioral scientists have used the expression to capture a litany of things that appear to deter crime — from basic protections like gates, locks, and alarms to more sophisticated fortifications through architectural design.

It was a Palantir employee in London, working closely with the data scientists building Cambridge's psychological profiling technology, who suggested the scientists create their own app, NYT reports.

Elon Musk's Tesla flying across space right now is carrying bacteria that could ultimately do harm to Mars, according to Purdue University scientists.

Bildfell says it's also possible to train certain employees to be data scientists.

For the first time, scientists have recorded DNA replication in real time.

Sure, if you've paid attention to lived experience it's no huge shock that laughter begets more laughter, but now scientists have confirmed the fact in a recent theoretical study that explains not just why we laugh and why its contagious, but also why it's good to start an infection at your business.

Universities are jumping on the data trend and attempting to alleviate the talent squeeze by introducing programs to train a new generation of data scientists.

But, again, there's a big political divide: 53 % of Democrats, but just 22 % of Republicans and 19 % of independents, say they have a great deal of confidence in scientists.

Ian Miers, Zcash founding scientist and Cornell Tech postdoc: Explaining zero knowledge proofs to people is an exercise in demonstrating their existence.

Our subconscious has saved us using what scientists call the fight - flight reflex.

In their paper, published in August 2016 in the journal Nature Genetics, a team of scientists pinpointed 17 genetic tweaks, or SNPs (pronounced «snips»), that appear to be tied to MDD.

Scientists call it the orienting response, which is where an organism reacts to a change in its environment that isn't quite great enough to startle.

As much as recent efforts to encourage women in STEM education and STEM jobs have helped move the needle a bit, the culture of science has often made life for women scientists harder than it already is — excluding them from clubby publishing and peer review networks and sometimes outright snubbing their achievements.

«The media made a mistake by covering Trump's candidacy at the start as some sort of joke or media prank,» Harvard political scientist Danielle S. Allen tells the NYT columnist.

«In a future mission, we could fly through those plumes and tell a lot about the chemistry and nature of the surface» and possibly a liquid ocean below, Bob Pappalardo, a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who wasn't involved in the work, told Business Insider — all without having to drill through the moon's miles - thick ice shell.

Princeton scientists found that height predicted success even among three - year - olds taking tests of cognitive ability.

«If we discovered nuclear power today, we would be working like mad to make it as safe and cheap as possible,» Stanford University climate scientist Ken Caldeira tweeted last summer.