Sentences with phrase «norwegian scientists»

Norwegian scientists report that the global greenhouse effect caused by human increases in carbon dioxide concentrations is now halfway to doubling.

In 2016, Norwegian scientists Harald Yndestad and Jan - Erik Solheim reported that solar output during the 20th century reached the highest levels in 4,000 years.

Entertainment Weekly has debuted the first image from director Alexander Payne's upcoming sci - fi comedy drama Downsizing featuring Matt Damon and Kristen Wiig; take a look below... «Downsizing imagines what might happen if overpopulation and climate change [prompt] Norwegian scientists to discover how to shrink people down to five inches tall and propose, very earnestly, the population's -LSB-...]

With the help of the on - site Norwegian scientists, they dig it up and bring it back to the campsite where Sander takes a tissue sample confirming they have indeed made a monumental discovery.

«Downsizing imagines what might happen if, as a solution to over-population, Norwegian scientists discover how to shrink humans to five inches tall and propose a 200 - year global transition from big to small.

It turns out that they came from a group of Norwegian scientists who had discovered a U.F.O. below the ice and attempted to excavate it.

«Downsizing» is set in a world in which Norwegian scientists have discovered how to shrunk humans down to 5 inches tall, which becomes a possible solution to overpopulation.

Downsizing (R for profanity, sexual references, graphic nudity and drug use) Sci - fi dramedy revolving around a couple (Matt Damon and Kristen Wiig) who agree to move to a miniature community after Norwegian scientists discover a process to shrink people to 5 ″ tall.

The movie has an enjoyable opening hour in which it lays out the basics of its rigorous, ludicrous premise: In a not - so - distant future, an unprepossessing nice guy named Paul Safranek (Matt Damon) opts to shrink himself to just a few inches tall, availing himself of a dynamic new procedure devised by Norwegian scientists that promises stability and even prosperity in an unforgiving economy.

American paleontologist Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and a team of Norwegian scientists fight a shape - shifting extraterrestrial at a remote outpost in Antarctica.

As if the previous study wasn't impressive enough, other studied such as studied done by Norwegian scientists found a link between lentil consumption and a reduction in cancers of the upper digestive tract.

Astonishingly, the Norwegian scientists found a whopping 9 milligrams of Roundup per kilogram, on average.

Norwegian scientists have analysed samples from more than 70 patients with clinical illness and no further instances of this mutation have been detected.

After several years of research in the Proof and ProofNy programmes, Norwegian scientists have found the answers to a great many of the issues involved here.

Grid cells and other specialized nerve cells in the brain, known as «place cells,» comprise the brain's inner GPS, the discovery of which earned British - American and Norwegian scientists this year's Nobel Prize for medicine.

This prequel follows the neighboring Norwegian scientists who first loosed the being on the world.

Laake and other Norwegian scientists view the cloning law and its lack of input from scientists as another in a series of slights.

When Norwegian scientist Marie attends a seminar in Paris on the actual weight of a kilo, it is her own measurement of disappointment, grief and, not least, love, that ends up on the scale.

When a Norwegian scientist invents a way to shrink humans to five inches tall as a means of combating pollution, climate change and sustainability, he decides to make the change.

Lucy Jago discusses The Northern Lights, Norwegian scientist Kristian Birkeland, and the history behind the scientific «hunch» that led Birkeland through years of tracking the aurora borealis.

Well Norwegian scientist Harald Sverdrup realized that the amount of water flowing through was to big to be measured in gallons or liters, so he came up with the term «the Sverdrup» which is «one million cubic meters of water per second», and there is 20 - 22 Sverdrups flowing through.

They're both are named for the Norwegian scientist Fridtjof Nansen, an early Arctic explorer and, incidentally, one of the first neurobiologists.

Another researcher, Norwegian scientist, Torgny Vinje, has done the painstaking work of collecting observations made by ships since 1864 for sea ice in the Nordic Seas.

One of the first scientists who highlighted the extraordinary temperature development at the «Green Harbour» Spitsbergen station was the Norwegian scientist B.J.Birkeland, in 1930 (op.

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Bent Erik Bakken, a senior principal scientist at the global assurance and risk management company DNV GL, told CNBC via telephone that Norwegian taxes on full petrol cars are about 100 percent, thus doubling the showroom price.

Scientists believe that's because Norwegian culture views winter not as an a nasty period to get through by cocooning yourself at home, but as an exciting opportunity for winter sports and enjoying the coziness and beauty of the season.

Egeland has also contributed commentary to The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, The Huffington Post, New Internationalist, European Leadership Network, and several Norwegian dailies.

Toxic blasts from the past Beginning in the mid-2000s, scientists observed higher levels of certain POPs, including hexachlorobenzene and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), at the Norwegian research station.

According to the study's author, Norwegian political scientist Thomas Hegghammer, terrorist plots with foreign fighter involvement are nearly twice as deadly as those without.

The team, which consists of scientists from Stockholm University and the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, say that their surprising finding highlights an even more urgent need for reducing greenhouse gas emissions to mitigate Arctic climate change.

«The scientists who come here — their careers depend on the data they collect here,» says Sébastien Barrault, research adviser at the Norwegian government - owned base.

Scientists collected snow around pawprints on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, melted it and used filters to identify DNA genetic material from animal cells in the water, said Eva Bellemain, of French DNA specialist firm SPYGEN.

In a remote Norwegian fjord, scientists are finding out by simulating the corrosive seas of the future.

An important component of the AMORA project was to establish ties and share knowledge between Norwegian and Chinese scientists.

«Because access to the Arctic is so difficult, there is not much reliable data on albedo there,» explains Sebastian Gerland, who headed the AMORA project and is a research scientist at the Norwegian Polar Institute.

Norwegian petroleum expertise from working on the Norwegian Continental Shelf is now helping to uncover new details as scientists continue to try to understand what factors contribute to making an earthquake in this region really big.

Scientists at Norwegian Geological Survey (NGU), CAGE, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, University of Plymouth, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Stellenbosch University in South Africa and Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats in Barcelona have collaborated in this work.

Work by biologists and marine scientists at various Norwegian research institutions over the past 10 years has covered such commercial resources as shrimp, scallops, herring and cod.

The new study by WHO experts and scientists at Imperial College London, published today by The New England Journal of Medicine, is «excellent» because it fills some important gaps, says Preben Aavitsland, a Norwegian epidemiologist.

«We believe the mother's immune response to HSV - 2 could be disrupting fetal central nervous system development, raising risk for autism,» says lead author Milada Mahic, a post-doctoral research scientist with the Center for Infection and Immunity and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health.

Women actively infected with genital herpes during early pregnancy had twice the odds of giving birth to a child later diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), according to a study by scientists at the Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health.

Panelists include: — Dr Carlota Escutia, Universidad De Granada, Spain — Professor Martin Siegert, Co-Director, Grantham Institute, Imperial College, London — Professor Chuck Kennicutt, Professor Emeritus in Oceanography, Texas A&M University — Professor Richard Bellerby, Research Scientist, Norwegian Institute for Water Research Thur 28 August, 7 pm, Auckland Museum Tickets available from Auckland Museum.

The First Norwegian Microbiology Meeting for junior scientists will be arranged at Geilo on 22 - 24 October 2006.

He is also the Chief Scientist at the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research in Norway.

The Kavli Prize Science Forum will create an excellent opportunity for a dialogue between scientists and policymakers regarding how both basic and more targeted science can most efficiently be used when policy decisions are made,» said Nils Christian Stenseth, President of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

The quality in these surface waters is so poor that aquatic life is affected,» says Heleen de Wit, senior research scientist at the Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA).

In a Norwegian population - based health cohort study, published in the International Journal of Epidemiology, scientists measured the effects of high and low BMI in 60,000 parents and children.

Finnish and Norwegian sport scientists have demonstrated that eccentric training stimuli can be used periodically to improve or maintain the neuromuscular system's ability to generate fast force production.

The story starts out in Antarctica, where a group of scientists are bunkered until one day they are disturbed by the sounds of gunshots coming from a Norwegian helicopter, apparently trying to kill a runaway dog.

Huynh explained that he and his colleagues at We Want To Know, the Norwegian game company he'd co-founded with French cognitive scientist Patrick Marchal, had been trying to decide whether to sell the game to schools, which were beginning to buy iPads at a steady clip.