Sentences with phrase «complicated than some scientists»

Putting that idea into practice, however, has proven a bit more complicated than some scientists initially envisioned.

If the finding is correct, it indicates that the relationship between humans and Neandertals goes further back and is more complicated than scientists supposed, says Sarah Tishkoff, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Pennsylvania who was not involved in the study.

Genetic research helps to explain why tracing the source of an outbreak of Legionnaires» disease that claimed four lives has proven to be more complicated than scientists hoped.

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.

The brain may interpret the information it receives from sensory neurons using a code more complicated than scientists previously thought, according to new research from the National Autonomous...

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The intrinsic portion distortion problem with the glycemic index ultimately led scientists to come up with the idea of glycemic load, which is better than the GI but still imperfect and too complicated.

Perri Klass MD, highlights the impact of daytime sleep for young children in her NYT article, «A Child's Nap Is More Complicated Than It Looks» — «Dr. Monique LeBourgeois, a sleep scientist at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and her colleagues recently conducted the first study on how napping affects the cortisol awakening response, a burst of hormone secretion known to take place... Read More

Because he has lived a lifetime of complicated calculations, though, Penrose has quite a bit more perspective than the average starting scientist.

«Binary evolution is more complicated than single star evolution,» says LIGO scientist Jolien Creighton of the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee.

But other scientists argue salmon biology is more complicated than that.

Whether scientists stay or go turns out, however, to be more complicated than the president suggests, according to a recent study tracking the decisions of foreign - born, U.S. - educated Ph.D. researchers.

The tiniest, most complicated set of instructions just got a little easier to read, thanks to a giant scientific project called ENCODE, which recruited more than 400 scientists from all over the world.

In the world's first large - scale investigation of how climate affects the composition of coral reefs, an international team of marine scientists concludes that the picture is far more complicated than previously thought — but that total reef losses due to climate change are unlikely.

Otherwise, I doubt that most people give a flying duck whether scientists go off the grid or not: It's just not interesting theater — anymore than trying to understand the issues at a basic level (even though it only requires exercising enough attention to realize that scientists will go the extra mile to explain the complicated problems while deniers only exercise rhetorical tricks).

Next question (assuming the net effect is a positive feedback), do all these factors (net effect) actually mean is it worse than scientists had earlier thought, about the same, not as bad (though still a net positive feedback), or not sure (due to it being so complicated)?

The fate of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is determined by a complicated mix of factors, including the pressure changes, with the biggest loss of old thick ice resulting more from a great «flush» of floes than melting, Dr. Rigor and many other scientists tracking the region say.

[3] I explain in my presentations that as a scientist who is fully qualified to understand climate change, I seem dumber than the people who say they «know» the answers because I do not profess to know the future, especially of something so complicated as the global climate.

* There is too much conflicting evidence about climate change to know whether it is actually happening * Current climate change is part of a pattern that has been going on for millions of years * Climate change is just a natural fluctuation in Earth's temperatures * Even if we do experience some consequences from climate change, we will be able to cope with them * The effects of climate change are likely to be catastrophic * The evidence for climate change is unreliable * There are a lot of very different theories about climate change and little agreement about which is right * Scientists have in the past changed their results to make climate change appear worse than it is * Scientists have hidden research that shows climate change is not serious * Climate change is a scam * Social / behavioural scepticism measures * Climate change is so complicated, that there is very little politicians can do about it * There is no point in me doing anything about climate change because no - one else is * The actions of a single person doesn't make any difference in tackling climate change * People are too selfish to do anything about climate change * Not much will be done about climate change, because it is not in human nature to respond to problems that won't happen for many years * It is already too late to do anything about climate change * The media is often too alarmist about climate change * Environmentalists do their best to emphasise the worst possible effects of climate change * Climate change has now become a bit of an outdated issue * Whether it is important or not, on a day - to - day basis I am bored of hearing about climate change

Reviewing his history in the blogosphere, he seems to fit the PSY4 category in John Mashey's taxonomy most closely: «Ego / pride: in skepticism in general and of scientists in particular», although it's doubtless more complicated than that.

I predict they will mutate the argument, and with a completely straight face — the effect of carbon dioxide will turn out to be «more complicated», scientists will rediscover that the molecule emits infra red too — and now rather than just simple warming, it will be responsible for «transforming regional patterns», «shifting layers» and «wandering jet streams».

Again, the weighing of evidence and importance of new data was fit through the human sieve: some scientists found the simplicity of Einstein's equations to be most compelling, while some found them more complicated than the notion of Maxwell's aether which they banished.

Determining what contributes to wrongful convictions is more complicated than assembling a list of percentages, social scientists say.