Sentences with phrase «advanced than our scientists»

How many Muslim students are here now learning engineering more advanced than our scientists did decades before?

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The advances that scientists are now making with artificial intelligence lead many to suggest — and fear — that we may be on the verge of creating artificial intelligences smarter than we are.

In advancing these theories they disregard factors universally admitted by all scientists — that in the initial period of the «birth» of the universe, conditions of temperature, atmospheric pressure, radioactivity, and a host of other catalytic factors were totally different than those existing presently, including the fact that we don't know how single atoms or their components would bind and consolidate, which involved totally unknown processes and variables, as single atoms behave far differently than conglomerations of atoms.

It is also the well - established case that natural scientists and people working at the edge of technological advances tend to be more religious than those in the humanities and social sciences.

The discussion focused on the Ph.D. career crisis more as a structural issue of «overproduction» than as a calamity for tens of thousands of talented and dedicated aspiring scientists who have invested crucial years of their lives in the hope of taking their place among those advancing the nation's scientific enterprise.

Personal ornaments previously found at a coastal cave in southeastern Spain are older than the cave art, dating to around 120,000 to 115,000 years ago, scientists report February 22 in Science Advances.

Assuming it is confirmed, says Stanford theoretical computer scientist Ryan Williams, this is the biggest advance in the field in more than a decade.

«It is about 3 - 4 times harder than most steels,» said Emilia Morosan, the lead scientist on a new study in Science Advances that describes the properties of a 3 - to - 1 mixture of titanium and gold with a specific atomic structure that imparts hardness.

The petition, which is the first organized by individual scientists in support of GM technology, yielded more than 1,400 signatures from plant science experts supporting the American Society of Plant Biologists» (ASPB) position statement on genetically modified (GM) crops, which states that they are «an effective tool for advancing food security and reducing the negative environmental impacts of agriculture.»

Scientists at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Intramural Research Program (IRP) have uncovered evidence that shows a more complex and elaborate role for the body's hard - working G protein - coupled receptors (GPCRs) than previously thought, suggesting a conceptual advance in the fields of biochemistry and pharmacology.

These advances, experts say, establish China as one of the top - tier spacefaring nations on Earth and the one with perhaps more momentum than anyone — a status that excites scientists and could inspire other nations to step up their own plans.

Using advanced diving technology to survey reefs at depths up to 300 feet, much deeper than conventional scuba gear allows, scientists were able to observe rarely seen ecosystems.

The key to the discovery was applying the pure math concept of mean width, which is trickier to measure than its cousins — surface area and volume, says materials scientist David Srolovitz of Yeshiva University in New York City, who, along with mathematician Robert MacPherson of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., published the finding online today in Nature.

When he returned an hour later, the simulation had advanced 100 million billion years, much further into the future than most scientists ever think (or dare) to explore.

Moving the chemical complexity of the ocean to the laboratory represented a major advance that will enable many new studies to be performed,» said Kimberly Prather, Distinguished Chair in Atmospheric Chemistry at the University of California, San Diego and director of the Center for Aerosol Impacts on Climate and the Environment, who led the team of more than 30 scientists involved in this project.

The research finding suggests that scientists are making progress on a key meteorological goal: forecasting the likelihood of extreme events more than 10 days in advance.

The playfulness, open - mindedness, and intellectual generosity of the best scientists always amaze me, never more so than when I called Piet Hut at the Institute for Advanced Study to talk about the prospects for graphstellations.

Scientists have fingerprinted a distinctive atmospheric wave pattern high above the Northern Hemisphere that can foreshadow the emergence of summertime heat waves in the United States more than two weeks in advance.

Those two papers were groundbreaking because they put forward a method for generating stem cells far simpler than any previously reported, a development that could advance regenerative medicine, in which scientists try to grow replacement tissues as a treatment for diseases and injuries.

For example, he noted that scientists have submitted many more high - quality proposals to DOE's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy than the agency can fund.

Stanford University scientists have developed an advanced zinc - air battery with higher catalytic activity and durability than similar batteries made with costly platinum and iridium catalysts.

Launching a natural research experiment in Kathmandu, Nepal, this month using advanced monitoring methods to assess health risk from air pollution, environmental health scientist Rick Peltier at the University of Massachusetts Amherst hopes to demonstrate for the first time in a real - world setting that air pollution can and should be regulated based on toxicology variables rather than simply on the volume of particles in the air.

Earlier this year, scientists at University of California, Los Angeles, and Advanced Cell Technology of Marlborough, Massachusetts, reported in The Lancet about the safe and successful use of RPE cells derived from human embryonic stem cells, rather than iPS cells, to treat a different type of AMD in a limited number of human patients.

Tropical Pacific climate variations and their global weather impacts may be predicted much further in advance than previously thought, according to research by an international team of climate scientists from the USA, Australia, and Japan.

A group of research scientists from the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste used a simulation model that is far more accurate than previously used, and carried out an experiment to test a hypothesis about the behaviour of hydrogen that is splitting the scientific community.

Just as our attempts to find extraterrestrials are becoming more advanced, just as scientists are increasingly confident we aren't the only intelligent beings in the universe, humans are creating more technology - produced noise than ever before, undermining our ability to detect potential alien transmissions.

For more than 160 years, the University of Michigan Health System has been a national leader in advanced patient care, innovative research to improve human health and comprehensive education of physicians and medical scientists.

Imaging has advanced rapidly, he explains, to the point where scientists can watch neural connections change in vivo — that is, in the living animal — rather than having to rely on in vitro tissue samples.

Scientists at the Advanced LIGO facility in Washington have once again detected gravitational waves, marking the third time in 18 months that the facility has observed ripples in the fabric of space - time that were originally predicted by Albert Einstein more than 100 years ago.

More than 60 scientists from the United States and across the world attended the workshop to discuss the future steps needed to advance the state of the science in regional climate modeling.

«The advanced technology in our Krios G3i helps scientists better understand the structures of proteins and viruses at a much higher resolution than ever before.

Robarts has a long history of fostering an interdisciplinary approach to research enabled by state - of - the - art facilities, technologically advanced core laboratories, and more than 600 committed scientists, staff and research trainees.

(A third type of grants — Advanced Grants — is available to scientists with more than 12 years of experience.)

A founding trustee of Gladstone will step down after committing more than 45 years to to giving scientists the freedom to advance science.

Berkeley Lab scientists are exploring whether a common soil bacterium can be engineered to produce liquid transportation fuels much more efficiently than the ways in which advanced biofuels are made today.

What's Next: The research showed that by varying the concentration of the reagent, scientists can determine the concentrations of hundreds of molecules in a complex mixture without knowing much about the molecules in advance, other than the fact that they possess a certain chemical group.

The new study, done in collaboration with scientists at Eawag Swiss Federal Institute for Aquatic Sciences and Georgia Institute of Technology, in addition to more than 70 scientists from the international cichlid research community, appears in the September 3 advance online edition of Nature.

Understanding the structure of glasses is more than an intellectual exercise — materials scientists stand to advance from the knowledge, which could lead to better control of the aging of glasses.

Virus genome analysis has played a bigger role in understanding the West African Ebola epidemic than for any other infectious disease outbreak for two reasons: modern advances in sequencing technologies and scientists who were unusually willing to share data.

«For more than half a century, Dr. London has represented the very best in a doctor and scientist — sincere compassion and outstanding research to advance the cause of and cure for hepatitis B infection,» said Timothy Block, Ph.D., president and co-founder of the Baruch S. Blumberg Institute and the Hepatitis B Foundation.

A staff of more than 25 scientists and technicians work on behalf of ALS patients to discover and advance the best new ideas for stopping ALS.

He was finally able to bring to the public some significant advances, none more noteworthy than a one - mile flight down the Potomac of a motorized, steam - powered, unmanned «aerodrome» launched by America's most famous scientist and photographed by one of its most famous inventors.

Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, director of the Potsdam Institute and Europe's leading climate scientist, says that «we are on our way to a destabilisation of the world climate that has advanced much further than most people or their governments realise», so «our survival would very much depend on how well we were able to draw down carbon dioxide to 280 parts per million», compared to the present level of close to 390ppm.

Later that night, on the same Special Report broadcast, correspondent James Rosen advanced the wildly misleading claim that climate scientists «destroyed more than 150 years worth of raw climate data.»

Heavy - handed attempts to bludgeon dissident scientists into submission does not advance the cause of science, even if (as seems more likely than not to me) those doing the bludgeoning are probably correct about the main cause of global warming.

Because of the intense media interest surrounding the first paper and the continued fascination with the topic of hurricanes and global warming, in advance of the embargo journalists sent the paper to over a hundred scientists, statisticians and mathematicians, conducting a far more rigorous peer review than the journal did.

RECENT work by scientists suggests climate change is advancing more rapidly and more dangerously than previously thought, according to Canberra's top adviser on the issue.

The current warming trend is of particular significance because most of it is extremely likely (greater than 95 percent probability) to be the result of human activity since the mid-20th century and proceeding at a rate that is unprecedented over decades to millennia.1 Earth - orbiting satellites and other technological advances have enabled scientists to see the big picture, collecting many different types of information about our planet and its climate on a global scale.

More than 100 scientists from the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are currently meeting in Queensland, Australia, to complete a special report, entitled «Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation», which is not due to be released until November.