Sentences with phrase «swiss scientists»

The is a paper by some Swiss scientists on the current radiation flux in the Alps that gives a great multi-altitude spectrum of the upwelling LW radiation.

A team of Swiss scientists, led by Daniel Favre, who works for the Laboratory of Cellular Biotechnology of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, found placing a mobile phone underneath a bee hyve, may confuse the bees due to high frequency tones it emits during a call, and thereby provoke «worker piping,» a signal to leave the hive and swarm.

The last words from the Swiss scientists are these: «The hiatus has not changed our projections of the overall magnitude of climate change or the emission reductions that are required to address it.»

But the Swiss scientists don't see it that way.

A report from Swiss scientists says some chemical companies in Europe are secretly releasing a powerful greenhouse gas - exceeding what their governments report by as much as 140 per cent.

The Swiss scientists found that the Solvay Solexis plant near Milan releases 10 - 20 times more HFC - 23 than its government reports.

The Greenland Ice Sheet Program, launched in 1971 in cooperation with Danish and Swiss scientists, marked the first time scientists had drilled through an ice sheet to bedrock.

Swiss scientists at EAWAG Aquatic Research did some research, crunched some numbers, and came up with this: «Although urine makes up only 1 % of the total volume of wastewater, it accounts for 50 — 80 % of the nutrient content.

The Swiss scientists give us reasonable arguments stating that a big number of gene mutations were acquired during human resettlement from the African continent.

In the late 1980s Swiss scientists reported decreases in hemoglobin and white blood cells in rats that had eaten microwaved food.»

A brain implant developed by Swiss scientists helped several partially paralyzed monkeys regain leg movement, a new study revealed.

We'll also discuss how a team of Swiss scientists have recently developed a way to switch off the genome - editing machinery after it's done its job.

A research conducted in 2013 by some Swiss scientists found out how moon cycle influences sleep pattern.

But a team of Swiss scientists has engineered cells that come pretty close: Only when they are bathed in blue light do the cells express a gene that has been inserted into them.

Certain drugs and perfumes, as well as food and agricultural products — and even Ferrari's famous red colour — are derived from new molecular structures invented by Swiss scientists.

Swiss scientists have discovered a new species of aculeate wasp, not hidden somewhere in a jungle on a remote continent, but in Central Europe, in a swampy area just a few kilometers from Zurich.

In a note published today, the secretariat says that it is «working with the EU on a solution» that would enable Swiss scientists to take part in the program anyway by September 2014, when the first Horizon 2020 contracts are to be signed.

BRUSSELS — Swiss scientists could be the first to feel the effects of a referendum in which Swiss people agreed to cap the entry of migrants into their country.

The Human Brain Project — a giant 10 - year project in which Swiss scientists play an important role — will also be funded until the spring of 2016 from FP7's budget, the secretariat said.

, the secretariat says that it is «working with the EU on a solution» that would enable Swiss scientists to take part in the program anyway by September 2014, when the first Horizon 2020 contracts are to be signed.

If an agreement can not be reached — and» [t] he window of opportunity in which to reach an association agreement is small and closing fast (we are talking about days, not weeks),» a European Commission official tells ScienceInsider in an email — Swiss scientists may not be eligible for funding from, among other programs, the European Research Council, which saw it's research budget increase dramatically in the Horizon 2020 program.

In the 1980's Swiss scientist Tim Berners - Lee developed the first protocols for the World Wide Web, and by 1993, 1 % of two - way telecommunications were conducted over the fledgling network.

Most of the prize money will go to new research and a company party, but CureVac also plans to use some of it to build an exhibit honoring Friedrich Miescher, a 19th century Swiss scientist whose discovery of nucleic acids isn't widely known.

Sabine Hilfiker, a Swiss scientist with CSIC, observes that while 40 percent to 50 percent of grant proposals submitted are funded, the grants themselves are picayune.

Bolles tells the story of how a Swiss scientist (the professor of the title), an English geologist (the politician), and an American explorer (the poet) convinced everybody else that only an Ice Age could account for the way the world looks.

«A few thousand years ago, there were no glaciers here at all,» says Swiss scientist, Ulrich Joerin.

Swiss scientist Jan Van der Meer has shown the possibilities by testing out strains of bacteria that eat particular chemicals in oil spills.

Not exact matches

Scientists have discovered that the best preserved Swiss tomb mummy buried in a church in Basel is the... More

Last year, scientists from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich, showed that if it could be measured from space — never done before — it should also tell us something about Earth's interior.

Expats are in good company: 40 to 80 per cent of faculty and scientists in Swiss institutes have been lured from other nations.

Johannis Nöggerath, president of the Swiss Nuclear Society, seismologist Robert Geller of the University of Tokyo, and Viacheslav Gusiakov, who heads the Russian Academy of Sciences» Tsunami Laboratory in Novosibirsk, have looked at the historical record of tsunamis that was available when Fukushima Daiichi was designed in the mid-1960s (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, vol 67, p 37).

The Queen's scientists have been working alongside a team of experts from Switzerland (ETH Zurich, Empa — Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology), USA (Florida State University) and Taiwan (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, National Synchrotron Radiation Research Centre).

To identify the relevant mutations the scientists analyzed the blood samples of 1,858 men from three independent cohorts in Europe and North America: the Swiss arm of the European Randomized Study for Prostate Cancer Screening, the large American Screening trial, Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian (PLCO), Princess Margaret Cancer Centre (University Health Network) and Mount Sinai Hospital (Sinai Health System) in Toronto.

Following up on the discovery, an international team of scientists led by the Swiss astronomer Vincent Bourrier from the Observatoire de l'Université de Genève, used the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) on the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope to study the amount of ultraviolet radiation received by the individual planets of the system.

Together with computer scientists from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ), Internet traffic observations of a major Swiss internet provider were analysed.

Based on his study of lichens, Swiss botanist Simon Schwendener was the first scientist to propose that some organisms are not autonomous individuals but combinations of unrelated species that work together.

Together with colleagues from Eawag, Empa scientists have been able to prove that HBCDs — presumably by atmospheric transportation — have ended up in fish and sediments in Swiss waters.

The committee ultimately appealed to the Swiss Health Department, which forced the scientists to cease their experiments.

While Switzerland's status remains uncertain, the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation has urged scientists to «continue to respond to and actively participate in open calls for Horizon 2020.»

It is set to mark the internationalisation of the program, with fifteen American, Russian, Chinese, Brazilian, Swedish, Japanese, German, Swiss, Italian and French scientists specialising in the study of ice cores due to attend.

Scientists funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) propose that the field of brain research should expand its focus.

Giardini, a seismologist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, was one of a number of scientists appointed in August last year by the then research minister Mariastella Gelmini to take up the reins of Italy's research institutes.

Even projects that did not win funding profited from the initiative, says Helbing, a physicist and social scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

Similarly, Reto Knutti, a climate scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, called the findings «impressive.»

Gretchen Früh - Green, an earth scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich, was stunned to find a network of mineral chimneys rising 200 feet from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

Based on dating of radioactive elements measured by scientists at the Swiss research center ETH Zurich, the ice at the base of the core may be at least 600,000 years old.

Scientists from VIB and KU Leuven, together with colleagues from the University of California and the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research have demonstrated that, anti-angiogenic therapy can improve immune boosting treatments.

«What could be difficult for a young scientist at the beginning of their career... is that some of the early journals don't have an impact factor,» says Henry Markram, a neuroscientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne who is also the co-founder and co-executive manager of Frontiers.

Scientists recently analyzed data that was collected using seismometers during two summer months at a Swiss Alps glacier in 2007.

«It's a great practical application of network theory,» says network scientist Dirk Helbing of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.