Sentences with phrase «scientists are under pressure»

I've argued against the sloppy work shown in Harry's read me, and been told that busy scientists are under pressure to get results, they don't have time at the cutting edge of academe for the careful software engineering and quality control of industrial science.

Supernovas» potential to answer such big questions means that scientists are under pressure not to miss a big break.

Scientists are under pressure to make exciting discoveries and grab headlines for scientific journals.

Not exact matches

The water they will be drilling up there will be fairly shallow and most scientists believe the oil is under less pressure which improves your margin for safety.

UNDER PRESSURE Using lasers, scientists compressed iron to high pressures that are likely found in large, rocky exoplanets» cores.

Are scientists in the United States under pressure to be superstars within their own field?

And when it became clear to realistic observers that the shuttle was a failure, NASA hid from that reality, as Soviet scientists did under Lysenko's political pressure.

To maintain honesty and objectivity under such pressures is often very difficult, but it is essential if the scientist is to discharge his social obligations and maintain the integrity of science.»

In her e-mail, Amabile proposed some actions that could be taken to help young scientists thrive under intense career - related pressure — and they're likely to sound familiar to those who are knowledgeable about scientific career issues.

After the German Environment Ministry came under pressure from environmental groups, the German Research Ministry ordered that the experiment be put on hold while independent scientific reviews by non-German scientists were done.

Scientists are under immense pressure to make discoveries, so negative findings often go unreported, experiments are rarely replicated and data is often «tortured until it confesses».

The scientists knew that under atmospheric pressure all compounds of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, except for methane, water, and carbon dioxide, are thermodynamically unstable.

Also in the mid-1990s, another group of scientists proposed the now widely accepted mechanism for how lakes can form under glaciers: Heat radiating from Earth's interior is trapped under the thick, insulating ice sheet, and pressure from the weight of all the ice above it lowers the melting point of the ice at the bottom.

Natural methane hydrates were first discovered by Russian scientists in the late 1960s in Siberian permafrost — where the ground is so cold that hydrates can form at shallower depths and at lower pressures than under the sea — and then, in the 1970s, at the bottom of the Black Sea.

But under the high - pressure conditions at the neutron star's surface, it would be transformed into a material made of pure neutrons, which some scientists believe would have a jelly - like consistency.

The seismic data collected by the Initiative has also helped Gao and her colleague Yang Shen at the University of Rhode Island, along with another study by Columbia University scientist Helen Janiszewski and Cornell University researcher Geoffrey Abers, to compile a picture of the CSZ structure that points to new places where the crushing pressure of subduction is squeezing water from and transforming rock at the trench where the Juan de Fuca plate is bending under the North American plate.

The results presented in this experiment is the first unambiguous observation of high - pressure diamond formation from mixtures and agree with theoretical predictions about the conditions under which such precipitation can form and will provide scientists with better information to describe and classify other worlds.

Under pressure The DEEPSEA CHALLENGER's ability to linger at the ocean bottom for an extended period of time means scientists on future dives might be able to study microbes such as actinomycetes in their natural environments.

But now a scientist in Switzerland has found a way to test key predictions of rival theories, and some candidates are under pressure.

In high - pressure and high - temperature X-ray measurements that were partly conducted at DESY, scientists created conditions similar to those in so - called subduction zones where an oceanic plate dives under the continental crust.

FBI officials have been under intense pressure from lawmakers, scientists, and the media to explain how the agency concluded that the attacks were carried out by Ivins, who killed himself on 28 July.

«Similar to railway coupling, cells can feel via connections among each other whether they are under pressure or under tension,» the scientist explains.

But the search for a stable three - dimensional form of carbon that is metallic under ambient conditions, including temperature and pressure, has remained an ongoing challenge for scientists in the field.

The most prominent scientist in President - elect Barack Obama's transition team says that the group reviewing the White House science shop is under tight pressure to make suggestions for who should be the science adviser to the new president.

Understanding how dolphins breathe rapidly and maintain lung functionality under immense pressure could help scientists keep humans safe when they are in similarly extreme situations, such as under anesthesia during surgeries, the researchers said.

The results presented in this experiment are the first unambiguous observation of high - pressure diamond formation from mixtures and agree with theoretical predictions about the conditions under which such precipitation can form and will provide scientists with better information to describe and classify other worlds.

Instead of trashing real climate scientists who study nuclear winter as stooges of KGB manipulation, maybe the FBI should see if the Wegman fiasco might be an actual example of their observation that «foreign researchers may be under pressure to make their research conclude what their government wants it to conclude, or they may be ordered to write completely fabricated studies.»

It was not until 1923 that Dubois, under pressure from scientists, once again allowed access to the Java Man fossils.

Below the ocean may be a few hundred miles (or kilometers) of a heavier form of ice that may exist under higher pressures on above a rocky core roughly 1,800 to 2,100 miles (3,000 to 3,400 km (more from Cassini news release; Lorenz et al, Science, March 21, 2008; Richard A. Kerr, ScienceNOW Daily News, March 20, 2008; David Shiga, New Scientist, March 20, 2008; and Charles Q. Choi and Andrea Thompson, Space.com/MSNBC, March 20, 2008).

Another is that scientists, even when under relentless pressure, need to conduct their work scrupulously, carefully and openly and understand that transparency is inevitable in the digital era.

It is this perception of scientists as honest which is under constant pressure from certain sectors of society, from cries of fraud at McIntyre's blog to the more subtle insinuations of Pielke's «honest broker» schtick.

Global warming scientists are under intense pressure to water down findings, and are then accused of silencing their critics The Guardian (U.K.) George Monbiot, April 10, 2007

The scientists noted that skies were fairly clear under the high - pressure cell, promoting strong melt.

Your boss, an elected public official, is under a lot of pressure from AGW - friendly donors to his campaign (not right, but, that's the way it is) to «just give them a chance — they have scientists saying their systems are very, very, close!»

So at worst, some scientists are guilty of poor judgment in some situations where they were under pressure.

Second, scientists are under intense pressure to conform with the prevailing paradigm of climate alarmism if they wish to receive funding for their research.

According to a new study by a team of scientists in the UK and the U.S., human activity is degrading Antarctica's marine ecosystems, placing native species under increasing pressure and upsetting the delicate balance of this exceptional region.

But young scientists are under far more pressure to publish, and are rewarded for publishing in high impact journals.

I agree with Yvan, who states in the very beginning of this discussion, states that scientists are often under pressure to deliver reports that are somewhat political correct.

The posts did point out that «Some of the other pieces in this series are fine» but do not reflect the large amount of analysis in the investigation of the way the emails have been misused by those with a political agenda and the extensive context we included to indicate the pressure scientists writing those emails were under from time - consuming requests for data.

And now, right on cue, comes this article from Isabel Hilton on Guardian Environment http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2010/jan/20/real-scandal-himalayas in which she states, among other things, that: «Kyrgyzstan, scientists predict, will lose 80 % of its water supply» [from glacier depletion] which provokes the following comment from the excellent MrEugenides: «This figure comes from an article Isabel herself wrote on 6 October 2009, quoting a local bureaucrat as saying that water supplies were under pressure from a variety of factors from river diversion and increased water usage to climate change.