The Doomsday Clock, a measure
by scientists of the risk to global survival, now says the danger is the greatest since 1953.
26 January, 2018 — The Doomsday Clock, a measure
by scientists of the risk to global survival, now says the danger is the greatest since 1953.
Despite projections
by some scientists of global seas rising by 20 feet or more by the end of this century as a result of warming, a new University of Colorado at Boulder study concludes that global sea rise of much more than 6 feet is a near physical impossibility.
Gardner's presence is covered up and he is raised
by the scientists of East Texas — which come to include Kendra (Carla Gugino), who acts as his surrogate mother.
Through the ALMA Regional Centers, it is expected that ALMA will be used not only by astronomers but also
by scientists of other fields.
A study led
by scientists of the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) at the Center for Free - Electron Laser Science in Hamburg presents evidence of the coexistence of superconductivity and...
Still other stem cells are suspected
by some scientists of starting or maintaining cancers.
An international team led
by scientists of Yonsei University in the Republic of Korea, presents the results in the scientific journal Nature Geoscience.
An interdisciplinary team led
by scientists of Charite Universitaetsmedizin Berlin has now analyzed the complex structure of dentin.
Photoreactive compounds developed
by scientists of Ludwig - Maximilians - Universitaet (LMU) in Munich directly modulate nerve - cell function, and open new routes to the treatment of neurological diseases, including chronic pain and certain types of visual impairment.
These findings have recently been discovered
by scientists of the German Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) and are now published in the scientific journal «European Journal of Wildlife Research.»
This is the result of a comparison of battery and plug - in hybrid vehicles in Germany and the US
by scientists of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Fraunhofer ISI (Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research), which is now reported in Nature Scientific Reports.
This gap in research has now been closed
by scientists of the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT): They compared the performances of 49,000 battery electric cars and 73,000 plug - in hybrid vehicles in Germany and the US using data from fleet trials and automotive manufacturers as well as from websites for drivers to manage and monitor their vehicles.
This was discovered
by scientists of the Gastroesophageal Tumor Unit (CCC - GET) of the Comprehensive Cancer Center (CCC) Vienna of the MedUni Vienna and the AKH Vienna in a joint study with the National Institutes of Health, USA, and the Johns Hopkins University, USA.
With only a few observations to feed into their calculations, the early estimates
by scientists of an asteroid's future orbit have huge uncertainties.
In a recent experiment performed at the Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory at RIKEN, an international collaboration with scientists from eleven countries, led
by scientists of the Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, CSIC (Spain) and the RIKEN Nishina Center (Japan), made a very surprising observation: High - energy gamma rays — which are mediated by the electromagnetic force — are emitted in the decay of a certain excited nucleus — tin 133, in competition with neutron emission, the decay mode mediated by the strong nuclear force.
The common sense notions presupposed
by the scientists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and that still shape our everyday thinking, are no longer tenable as comprehensive and fundamental explanations of things.
«We are delighted that Jon has accepted this position, which ensures that management of one of Mass Audubon's most mission - critical and identifiable programs will be overseen
by a scientist of both impressive ability in the field and substantial research experience,» Director of Conservation Science Jeff Collins said.
The important thing is that it was written
by a scientist of unimpeachable credentials who is chair of the committee charged to revise the APS position statement.
Not exact matches
The study was funded
by EnCana, the drilling company whose wells the EPA had initially blamed for the contamination.Though the role
of fracking remains contested, the advising
scientists recommend that the EPA should qualify its conclusions about the risks posed
by acknowledging gaps in the existing data and concerning cases like Pavillion.
Another lucky bunch, memorably dubbed «superagers»
by scientists, retain the clarity
of mind
of someone in their 50s well into their 80s.
Universities are jumping on the data trend and attempting to alleviate the talent squeeze
by introducing programs to train a new generation
of data
scientists.
«The media made a mistake
by covering Trump's candidacy at the start as some sort
of joke or media prank,» Harvard political
scientist Danielle S. Allen tells the NYT columnist.
Matt Green, Zcash founding
scientist and Johns Hopkins professor: Zero knowledge proofs are this kind
of foggy, beautiful, magical thing invented in the 1980s
by cryptographers at MIT.
Sumner said Trump is too quick to dismiss the evidence
of global warming compiled
by climate
scientists.
The new prototypes, made
by scientists at the University
of California at Berkeley, are each roughly 3 millimeters long, 1 millimeter high and 4/5
of a millimeter thick.
«I am horrified but absolutely not surprised
by this amount
of data,» data
scientist Olivier Keyes tells Duportail.
PICI (pronounced «pie - sea»), as it's called
by its member
scientists, is doing something unprecedented in academic medicine: combining and coordinating the efforts
of six
of the top cancer immunology centers in the country — MD Anderson Cancer Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering, Penn Medicine, Stanford, UCLA, and UCSF — in order to greatly expand and, more important, to accelerate our understanding
of why some immune - based treatments work miraculously in some patients and not at all in others.
Started in 2002
by a successful corporate
scientist in the throes
of a midlife crisis, General Fusion has already outlasted past private - sector attempts to commercialize fusion energy.
Some
scientists say this could illuminate a potential factor behind a recent spate
of acts
of mass violence, almost all
of which have been perpetrated
by men between the ages
of 20 and 30.
«We're creating a lot
of structure that wasn't there before, but it is
by no means a long - term solution,» Dalton Hesley, a
scientist working on reef restoration in the Caribbean at the University
of Miami, told Business Insider for a recent story on coral restoration efforts.
By 2040, say data
scientists at three leading health research centers — Seattle's Institute for Heath Metrics and Evaluation, the Harvard T.H. Chan School
of Public Health, and the World Bank Group — that bill will more than double, to $ 18 trillion.
Berners - Lee was collaborating in Switzerland at the CERN physics laboratory with another
scientist by the name
of Robert Calliau.
As I've said, there have been a number
of research papers
of late, led in large part
by the work
of French
scientist Laurence Zitvogel, that are building a strong case for a central role for the microbiome in cancer treatment response.
In the paper, called «Death
by Pokemon Go: The Economic and Human Cost
of Using Apps While Driving,» the
scientists examined police accident reports in Tippecanoe County, Indiana in the 148 days after the game's release.
Political
scientist Keith Brownsey
of Mount Royal University argues the Liberals paid close attention to the many fumbles made
by Harper's Tories on the energy file: failing to build solid relationships with First Nations, allowing environmental groups to seize the public - relations initiative, not asserting federal authority and handing provinces like B.C. and Quebec control
of the political agenda, keeping Canada outside
of the international consensus on climate change, and ignoring legitimate criticisms
of the federal review process.
A movement
by scientists to march on Washington as a protest against the Trump White House's treatment
of science has gained traction, with more than 115,000 supporters joining a Facebook (fb) group for the cause.
Tales
of students striking it rich
by becoming data
scientists would probably result in a world
of change.
For years,
scientists have believed that the same sections
of the brain are used
by every person to generate emotions like a smile or frown; they fall into a rigid pattern.
As reiterated in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report issued on March 31,
scientists estimate that we can emit no more than 500 gigatonnes
of carbon dioxide in order to limit the increase in global temperature to just 2 degrees C
by 2100 (and governments attending the successive climate summits have agreed in principle to this objective).
The analysis, done
by Millennial Branding and analytics company Identified.com, was created
by a team
of data
scientists crunching raw information from 4 million Facebook profiles
of young people to uncover how they are representing themselves on Facebook — and whether they're using the social network for business purposes.
Then, Oculus Chief
Scientist Mike Abrash spent the majority
of his presentation presenting us with some common optical illusions, proving that the brain is easily tricked
by virtual reality.
McKinsey predicts that
by 2018, the United States my face a shortage
of up to 190,000 data
scientists as well as 1.5 million managers with the skills to translate data science into business decisions.
The
scientists used an instrument called SPHERE on the Very Large Telescope (VLT)-- an array
of four different telescopes run
by the European Southern Observatory (ESO)-- to take the new images
of infant solar systems and their protoplanetary disks.
In a statement, President Obama said
of the astronaut and public servant, «John always had the right stuff, inspiring generations
of scientists, engineers and astronauts who will take us to Mars and beyond — not just to visit, but to stay... The last
of America's first astronauts has left us, but propelled
by their example we know that our future here on Earth compels us to keep reaching for the heavens.
The
scientists were even able to see «intriguing» shadows cast
by clouds
of gas and dust in two
of the images.
The transit method
of detecting planets that Kepler
scientists use involves looking for dips in a star's brightness, caused
by a planet blocking a fraction
of the starlight (similar to how the moon eclipses the sun).
It gets really egregious when you look at what kind
of data political appointees at the EPA want to exempt from the rule: proprietary corporate data, according to internal discussions obtained
by the Union
of Concerned
Scientists.
CloudSigma, out
of Zurich, is another interesting provider with specialty in high - performance computing
of the type used
by scientists and medical researchers.
He points to the fact that Smith is currently investigating the activities
of federal climate
scientists whose research last year undermined claims
by Climate Change skeptics that global warming was going through a «hiatus».