Sentences with phrase «many early scientists»

Many early scientists were deeply religious.

Yes, religion has done some good along the way, and some of the earlier scientists were religious and even church - funded, but science has since been able to explain much of how the world works.

Another science blog rich in advice for early scientists and those things they didn't teach you are graduate school.

Earlier scientists had sought a single masterkey to climate, but now they were coming to understand that climate is an intricate system responding to a great many influences.

Traditionally, this remark has been interpreted as indicating Newton's modesty, and his recognition that earlier scientists such as Johannes Kepler, Galileo and Descartes had laid the foundations for his laws of motion and his great work on gravity — which is odd, because in 1675 Newton had not made public his ideas about gravity and motion.

The account of the ways in which the medieval Christian church attempted to suppress early scientists, which Abdus Salam in his preface regards as particularly impressive, consists of little more than a list of ten examples drawn from A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology published almost a century ago.

Early scientists believed that mate choice was driven entirely by the male, for example.

Although Dolly, the sheep, was the first to be created from the cell of an adult mammal, years earlier scientists managed to replicate frogs and cattle at the embryonic level.

Could it be that we have taken for granted the existence of something fundamental, the way early scientists took for granted the existence of God?

Today's polar scientist frequently marvels as she or he looks back at what these early scientist - explorers accomplished, as they laid the foundations that remain firm to this day in fields ranging across geology, meteorology, biology, glaciology, and more.

Although he may have been one of the first to suggest that dogs laugh, the idea that other animals laugh had already been suggested by earlier scientists.

Our first stop is the ancient world, where some of the earliest scientists and philosophers pondered the true nature of this mysterious substance that stimulates sight and makes things visible.

Early scientists such as the Greeks spent considerable effort engaging in describing and characterizing morphology of various species.

However, there are plenty of science articles that are just interesting, reporting events and explorations in the Arctic and elsewhere that give a fascinating view into how early scientists were coming to an understanding about climate change and processes.

Earlier scientists had sought a single master - key to climate, but now they were coming to understand that climate is an intricate system responding to a great many influences.

Fifthly, the early scientists were perfectly happy with the idea of God, just not what the Pope pronounced.

One can have prejudices or preconceptions — like the prejudice that most early scientists had that humans were just too small to be able to change something as big as the global climate.

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This sensor is still in its early days, as the scientists have tested a prototype on only eight people so far.

These early stories perfectly fulfilled the background information when I joined Google as a research scientist back in 2010.

Scientists had a working flu vaccine by the 1940s, after the influenza virus was first discovered in the early 1930s.

Along with Mark Weiser (who passed away in 1999), computer scientist John Seely Brown wrote some of the earliest papers on the subject while working at Xeroc PARC.

Big Data While the definitive source of the term big data — which is used describe a collection of analytics that companies use to predict customer behavior — is a little fuzzy, according to some digging done by New York Times reporter Steve Lohr, the person responsible for its popularization is a man named John Mashey, a computer scientists who was VP and chief scientist at company called Silicon Graphics in the early 1990s and 2000s.

Researchers have developed a vaccine that works in mice and rats, but scientists say this vaccine is still in the early stages.

In these lean, early days, Other Lab has only three full - time employees: Griffith, the mechanical engineer and so - called lead scientist; Jim McBride, a fellow MIT postdoc and the house physicist (who happens to be on vacation during my visit); and Jonathan (Jach) Bachrach, yet another MIT guy who is technically a software engineer but like the other two has a far broader purview.

When the headhunter contacted him months before, he wouldn't tell Eckert much except that the company had been founded by famed scientist Rodney Brooks, who, until a few years earlier, had led MIT's computer - science and artificial - intelligence lab.

Venter said living to 130 is «a science - fiction fantasy,» but scientists don't know the upper limit on age, and the earlier that scientists can detect genetic risks and couple that with a healthy lifestyle, the better the chances for a longer life.

«This is evidence of a big shakeup early on in the solar system's formation,» Glenn Orton, a co-author of the new study and a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told Business Insider.

In 1998, a distinguished committee led by Princeton University's Shirley Tilghman warned that too many early - career life scientists faced diminishing and discouraging professional prospects.

This guy called Tsiolkovsky, one of the early Russian rocket scientists, had a great saying.

After spending a year meeting with Plain Sight's scientists several times and researching its technology, Rennick agreed to the merger in early 2005.

The early Vertex operates out of a construction company warehouse, and the scientists have no fixed workstations, but drift from desk to desk.

But research on the contact lenses began several years earlier at the University of Washington, where scientists worked under National Science Foundation funding.

Pauly was an early supporter, joining other scientists in helping develop its criteria.

Regardless of whether the great scientist actually said it (the earliest print reference comes from an Alcoholics Anonymous pamphlet), it's the sort of advice you'd expect from the world's smartest guy: don't waste your time on repetitive folly.

To ensure that the social network keeps innovating, the company launched Pinterest Labs earlier this year, bringing together researchers, scientists, engineers and universities to tackle challenges in machine learning and A.I.

Earlier this year, Chinese scientists caused a controversy when they announced they'd used the gene editing technique to tweak the genomes of human embryos.

When researchers out of Russia examined the sleep and wakefulness rhythms of 130 study subjects (by keeping the obliging participants up for a full 24 hours and quizzing them periodically about how they were feeling), the scientists found that some folks really didn't prefer early or late hours.

Or, as cognitive scientist Stephanie Braccini and colleagues put it in a Journal of Human Evolution study, «a strengthening of individual asymmetry [may have] started as soon as early hominins assumed a habitual upright posture during tool use or foraging».

«The gelada case is comparable to what early domestication of dogs might have been like,» study researcher Claudio Sillero, of the University of Oxford, told New Scientist's Bob Holmes.

Scientists still know very little about how early embryos develop, due to their small size (the width of a hair) and inaccessibility in the womb.

Much of the new search zone was already scanned during an early phase of the first seabed search, before Australian scientists refined their calculations and moved their focus further south.

As early as the 1930s, scientists were alarmed by the degradation and were worried about erosion and plants dying off.»

In the early days of the Internet, MIT Media Lab alumna, Engineer and Computer Scientist, Cristina Dolan, co-founded OneMain.com, which grew to be the tenth largest ISP after a successful...

Finnur Eiriksson, a computer scientist living in Reykjavik, said, «The exorbitant prices in the housing market, so early after the collapse of the Icelandic economy, are quite shocking.»

In the drive to improve early detection and treatment of cancer, a pair of Toronto scientists has developed a unique technology that combines contrast agents with targeted, long - lasting nano - particles for use in multiple medical imaging platforms.

For the earliest - stage companies, where there might be a group of brilliant scientists and engineers, 20 to 30 people, and they aren't looking to raise $ 50 million; they're looking to raise $ 10 million.

Exxon's early research into climate change was revealed in a 2014 email from a former company scientist that

* An earlier headline for this article identified David Coppedge as a scientist.

The avenues of thought explored by Ashley and others are reminiscent of the earlier work of the Jesuit theologian and scientist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.

And the early atheists came from those scientists — they tried to avoid getting their heads cut off.