Sentences with phrase «arms race»

Churchill's Bomb: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race.

He and his collaborators present evidence that a coevolutionary arms race has led to genetic differentiation and is causing the evolution of a new species, perhaps over a remarkably short time period.

Its great an all with soldiers being protected in full armour with exoskeletons but i can see yet another arms race with those who do have them being able to do what they want, and those without being unable to stop them.

The South Hills crossbill, potentially a newly discovered species of finch, has evolved over the past 6,000 years with a unique dependence on its food source, the Rocky Mountain lodgepole pine, in a coevolutionary arms race that also changed the tree, according to a genomic study led by Tom Parchman, a biologist at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Implicit in the duplicate - and - mutate model is the assumption that the toxins need to evolve rapidly to be effective because many venomous animals can be locked in an arms race with their toxins» targets.

«How cells are foiled by a herpesvirus family member in the virus - host arms race.»

«This is a novel twist to the chemical arms race which most snake venoms evolve under.

There's an arms race going on among insects in the Arctic, where temperatures are increasing faster than anywhere else on the planet — and mosquitoes are winning, according to a new study.

In the American west, beetles and their well - adapted host trees are locked in an ever - changing arms race.

Perry said he was especially concerned that the U.S. and Russia were engaged in new arms race, with both countries working to rapidly modernize their nuclear arsenals.

Even novel attacks on cancer can end up as an arms race.

Kennette Benedict is right to flag up the dangers of an arms race in cyberspace (30 June, p 26).

«We began the project with the hypothesis that different CRISPR systems may have been specialized throughout an evolutionary arms race between bacteria and their viruses, potentially giving them the ability to target viral RNA,» explains Salk Research Associate Silvana Konermann, an HHMI Hannah Gray Fellow and the paper's first author.

To date, the federal government has spent more than $ 7 billion compensating people made sick by the government - run nuclear program that fueled the Manhattan Project and the Cold War arms race.

In the arms race of life, a number of animals use venom as a weapon to paralyze prey and jump - start digestion.

«In the ongoing arms race between white hats and black hats, researchers and developers are constantly coming up with new security extensions,» says Dr. William Enck, an assistant professor of computer science at NC State and a senior author of a paper describing the new framework.

In the evolutionary arms race to defeat the disease, subtle and indirect maneuvers like these may ultimately prove most effective.

Isbell calls the relationship between snakes and primates throughout history «an evolutionary arms race.»

A virtual arms race is created between the players and the artificial intelligence, providing an ever - changing challenge for the user, Hintze said.

Evolutionary theory holds that traits that play a role in mating and reproductive success, undergoing sexual selection, drive species diversification — a concept often likened to an «arms race.»

Rapidly evolving genes are often a signature of a molecular arms race between organisms sharing an environment.

The behaviors have led to what researchers term an evolutionary arms race, with the birds evolving various strategies to outwit their rivals, such as hiding nuts in the shade or behind barriers, or moving their cache to new locations.

And that, researchers report July 7 in Science, may be when wheat started to lose an arms race with blast fungus (Pyricularia oryzae, also known as...

Sexual evolution is like an arms race, Burch says.

Now, in the deadly arms race between people and bacteria, the bugs are winning.

Joy warned that research into defense mechanisms in a new kind of «arms race» would inevitably provoke further evolution of the new technologies.

This process was hypothesized to result from an evolutionary chemical arms race, in which the invention of potent venom in the predatory animals and the evolution of venom resistance in their prey animals, exert reciprocal selection pressures.

As Kennedy later explained his thinking: «In short, both the United States and its allies, and the Soviet Union and its allies, have a mutually deep interest in a just and genuine peace and in halting the arms race.

Cleaning up some of the world's worst hotspots is not a job for humans; reports on the robots built to deal with the legacy of the nuclear arms race

The same sort of coevolutionary arms race happens in humans and other mammals.

But since so many aspects of our physique — from eyesight to strength, endurance to pain tolerance — contribute to athleticism, the arms race of doping won't lose steam any time soon.

But Richard Garwin, a leading expert on military technology and a critical figure in the development of the hydrogen bomb, says that would only incite a space arms race that would ultimately make our satellites more vulnerable.

Brodie and his colleagues expanded their research up and down the Pacific Coast in order to track this coevolutionary arms race.

Basically this is what's known as an evolutionary arms race.

I'm fascinated by the evolutionary arms race between the cuckoo and the birds that it parasitises.

The war against infections is eons old, but the arms race has escalated over the past few decades.

So, we don't see the expected tight coevolutionary arms race.»

To see it, just look up into a clear sky, to the no - man's - land of Earth orbit, where a conflict is unfolding that is an arms race in all but name.

Gorbachev also recognized that the arms race was strangling the Soviet economy.

Through it all, no full - blown arms race or direct conflicts erupted.

«The bottom line is the United States does not want conflict in outer space,» says Frank Rose, assistant secretary of state for arms control, verification and compliance, who has led American diplomatic efforts to prevent a space arms race.

New research led by the University of Utah challenges this paradigm of an evolutionary arms race.

Clayton suggests that a cognitive arms race among their own kind drove corvids to evolve, as the spy - versus - spy game of caching, stealing, hiding, and deceiving escalated the need for an ever - sharper mind.

Arms race Most legal and grey - area synthetic drugs are thought to originate from China, and the laboratories producing them are in a constant arms race with the legal systems of countries fighting the drugs.

This so - called evolutionary arms race (also known as the Red Queen hypothesis) can be tracked over the eons as each species adapts new strategies to outwit their predators — and / or their own prey — making the dynamic a two - way street.

Krasnow and Mehr believe the tug of war between an infant seeking as much attention as possible and the caregiver dividing attention among other offspring and tasks crucial for survival may have set the stage for an evolutionary arms race.

Naval arms race «The «California,» «Mississippi» and «Idaho» are to be armed with a new type of 14 - inch gun, which will show a considerable increase of power over the 45 - calibre gun.

Schaffer's team knows it is entering an arms race of sorts: even consumer - level imaging tools could help oppressive regimes.

From this, he proposes a new theory for the evolution of the human brain: Homo sapiens developed rounder skulls and grew bigger parietal cortexes — the region of the brain that integrates visual imagery and motor coordination — because of an evolutionary arms race with increasingly wary prey.

His research focuses on the arms race between bacteria and viruses, and last year, Bondy - Denomy started testing out a hunch.