Sentences with phrase «scientists say the activity»

Scientists say the activity could lead to an eruption, and people are being told to stay away.

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So what can scientists learn by measuring your brain activity when, say, you listen to a cello solo or view a piece of art?

And knowing the concentrations of radiogenic elements inside Mars will help scientists figure out how much energy was available to fuel all of this activity, Smrekar said.

«A full reading of Bernstein's email reveals an important point ---- his assertion that, in the 1980s, we never denied the possible role of human activity as a cause for climate change, and he further makes clear that, at that point in time, there was a great deal of uncertainty and lack of understanding of climate change, even among leading scientists and experts,» said Keil, adding that today, Exxon «believes the risk of climate change is clear, and warrants action.»

If the universe is as old as scientists say it is, a body like io should have been long vacant of volcanic activity.

«I do not believe that human activity is causing these dramatic changes to our climate the way these scientists are portraying it,» the first term senator said Sunday on ABC «This Week,» after being asked by ABC News» Jon Karl whether humans were contributing to the heating up of the planet.

«With more than 150 attendees and over 140 online viewers this year, the event also allowed broad outreach about the depth and importance of the activities in which fellows engage, and the many ways that scientists and engineers can contribute in the policy arena,» said Robinson.

As melting sea ice opens up the Arctic to more human activity, the mammals, known as «unicorns of the sea» for their single tusk, may be more exposed to the potentially harmful escape response, scientists say.

By designating a particular day for such activities, citizen scientists feel part of a larger effort and are more likely make a commitment to participate, he said.

The study's findings raise many questions about which activities in the basin were leading to the high emissions rates, said Steven Hamburg, chief scientist for the Environmental Defense Fund.

«The father — daughter to teacher — pupil to fellow scientist progression has caused our relationship to mature and expand through common learning experiences and activities, providing a special bond,» he says.

The new method may make some types of gene therapy easier and could be a boon for researchers hoping to control gene activity in animals, scientists say.

«We saw that the activity of those neurons went through the roof,» said senior author Laurence Trussell, Ph.D., a professor of otolaryngology in the OHSU School of Medicine and scientist in the OHSU Vollum Institute.

Much higher levels of gene activity were triggered in these experiments than scientists have achieved before, says Michael Hemann, a cancer biologist at MIT.

«Some of the most interesting sites will be those that offer fresh material — perhaps exposed by an impact, a crack or plume activity like comets have — and those with diverse material,» said Keiko Nakamura - Messenger, OSIRIS - REx sample site scientist and the deputy lead for curation at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

The methods enable us to do this under relevant and even real operation conditions and, hence, to directly adjust the catalytic activity of materials,» says Andreas Gänzler, scientist of KIT's Institute for Chemical Technology and Polymer Chemistry (ITCP) and main author of the study «Tuning the Structure of Platinum Particles on Ceria In Situ for Enhancing the Catalytic Performance of Exhaust Gas Catalysts» published in the latest issue of the journal Angewandte Chemie (Applied Chemistry).

«Ninety percent of scientists involved in this kind of international exchange» could fit the description of Xi's activities in China, he says.

So say a group of leading scientists who propose to track the activity of the entire brain, neuron by neuron, millisecond by millisecond.

Scientists believe it orchestrates the rehearsal of focused activity, in the microseconds before you decide to squeeze a dynamometer, say.

«Combining literature, tree ring dating, and space observation, we have uncovered clear patterns in solar activity and astronomical events,» says Kyoto University space scientist Hiroaki Isobe.

Martin Weisman of the Department of Health says the chief culprit for people's increasing weight must be decreasing physical activity, because on average people today eat fewer calories than their grandparents did («For a few burgers more...», New Scientist, 22 April).

Specifically, the institute will «train and empower 15 mid-career scientists per year to develop public - engagement activities in their home communities,» said Tiffany Lohwater, AAAS meetings and public engagement director.

Amedi says the traditional sensory - organized brain model can't explain this activity; after all, the subjects only heard the information, and scientists believed that the body - recognizing area shouldn't have fully developed without visual experiences during development.

The Dawn probe has previously detected salts, ammonia - rich clays and water ice on Ceres, which together indicate hydrothermal activity, says study coauthor Carol Raymond, a planetary scientist

The tree also provides a baseline to test whether diurnal, or daytime, activity, a common butterfly trait, evolved much earlier than scientists previously believed, possibly at a time when bats» spread across the planet, as a means of escaping these and other nocturnal predators, Kawahara said.

At the moment, a survey of 300 Arctic scientists revealed, many researchers who participate in international research collaborations «do so as a volunteer activity,» Pfirman said.

A new study showing that monkeys can move two virtual limbs with only their brain activity is a major step toward achieving that goal, scientists say.

More than 90 percent of the scientists and climatologists surveyed said they believed climate change was occurring, with more than 50 percent attributing climate change primarily to human activities.

To test that possibility, he says, scientists could set up additional controlled experiments that measure how physiology and brain activity varies over the 29.5 - day lunar cycle.

«As scientists, we have a love for finding answers and strive during our careers to use our research for beneficial activities,» said Alexander Mihai Popovici, current committee chair of Geoscientists Without Borders.

«Either the recent increases are not due to a warming climate, or a warming climate has implications for tornado activity that we don't understand,» says study author Michael Tippett, a climate scientist at Columbia University.

«The consequences of this research are very important for all scientists working on the dynamics of the Earth, including plate tectonics, seismic activity and volcanism,» said Jean Braun of the German Research Centre for Geosciences, who was not involved in the research.

Scientists now say that decreased solar activity may increase the frequency of cold winters and return Northern Eur

Knowing which cetaceans live where in the ocean and at what depths is important, the scientists say, in order to mitigate any problems that may occur from human activities, such as aquaculture, energy development, and Naval training exercises.

The deaths «may very well be exacerbated by human activity,» says Susan Barco, research coordinator and senior scientist at the Virginia Aquarium and Marine Science Center Foundation.

Life on planets orbiting other stars doesn't have to literally broadcast its existence: Radio signals are just one way earthbound scientists might detect biological activity elsewhere in the universe, says Hanno Rein, a planetary scientist at the University of Toronto, Scarborough, in Canada.

Tracking these kinds of changes in a volcano's magma chamber could lead to better predictions of volcanic activity, the scientists say.

«Caring for a loved one is a demanding and difficult task, often doubly so for caregivers who juggle these activities with caring for a family and the demands of a job,» said Rajeev Ramchand, the study's co-leader and a RAND senior behavioral scientist.

«Being able to pull that signal out from all the other busy activity that is going on, all the other gamma - ray traffic, is going to take some time,» says project scientist Steve Ritz of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

«This work shows that dendritic spines, which are sub-micrometer compartments within individual neurons, are the prime candidates for the initial tag of transient, millisecond synaptic activity that eventually orchestrates memory traces in the brain lasting tens of years,» said Shahid Khan, senior scientist at the Molecular Biology Consortium at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a co-author on the PNAS paper.

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and techniques like ultrasound are being refined and repurposed to look at ever - smaller structures within the brain, and to follow brain activity and metabolism as it happens, the scientists said.

«Few people can see the really big picture, that human activities are resulting in the demise of tropical forests around the world and this has serious consequences,» said Anthony Rylands, deputy chair of the IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group and senior research scientist at Conservation International.

«Although Johnson had not created watercolors, had not flown a plane, and had not driven since her illness, she could still describe how one would go about carrying out these activities,» said Johns Hopkins cognitive scientist Michael McCloskey.

All of this suggests that circadian clocks can be cued by social roles and that the rhythms can be much more complicated than scientists thought, the team reports online today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. «People seem to think about daily activity patterns as something that's more or less fixed in a species,» Kempenaers says.

«These findings are extremely important,» says political scientist James Fowler at the University of California, San Diego, who has been doing research linking certain gene variations to political activity.

In the past, scientists have studied the effects of low brain activity in the MD by cutting it out in mice — an extreme measure that didn't accurately mimic the «mild» reduction in activity seen in schizophrenia, says Columbia University psychiatrist Joshua Gordon.

All of this is undetectable to someone at the surface, but the underwater impact and disturbance from these activities can be devastating to ocean life, especially for species such as the North Atlantic right whale,» said Dr. Christopher Clark, Senior Scientist for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology Bioacoustics Research Program.

The better scientists can pin down natural influences on climate, he says, the better they can understand the impact of human activities.

37 - percentage point gap over whether climate change is mostly caused by human activity — 87 % of AAAS scientists say it is, while 50 % of the public does.

In May, he said the climate is always changing, suggesting that scientists are using a «handful of decades of research» to serve as evidence of a longer - term trend that is directly attributable to human activity.