Sentences with phrase «conducts live experiments»

This does not mean that the scientific skeptic is necessarily a scientist who conducts live experiments (though this may be the case), but that the skeptic generally accepts claims that are in his / her view likely to be true based on testable hypotheses and critical thinking.
When assembling the parts and pieces to conduct a live experiment isn't in the cards, virtual experiments can also help students explore science topics.

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To check the findings, the researchers also conducted a second experiment where they first asked participants to complete the math challenge and then interviewed them about their real - life stressors.
I am conducting the same experiment, except mine if for life, and no pretending.
He was conducting a scientific experiment upon himself, observing his own reactions and earnestly seeking through these experiences to find the abiding value, if any, that life possesses.
And an experiment conducted by the National Institute of Mental Health suggests that contemporary Americans tend to slip back into a two - phase sleep pattern when (1) they are denied access to artificial lighting and (2) find themselves living under conditions that simulate winter at high latitudes.
Activities include learning about dinosaurs, conducting science experiments, building models, observing live specimens, artistic expression, field trips, etc. * Ages: 6 - 12.
Members discussed «chavocide» and conducting «experiments to see why they breed so much despite living rough»
By conducting a series of experiments on young plants, the researchers have shown that the growth of the lodgepole pine is greatly affected by which organisms live in the soil.
«Tropical trees, compared those in temperate forests, have three times as many living cells surrounding the xylem that can facilitate these processes, which are not observed by the typical experiments we conduct to determine how vulnerable a plant is to droughts.»
The panel concluded that only experiments in astronaut physiology should be conducted aboard the space station, and that most life science research should be ground based.
They conducted six experiments involving 456 infants between the ages of eight months and 16 months at Science World's Living Lab located at TELUS World of Science in Vancouver.
Montooth and University of Chicago researcher Mohammad A. Siddiq conducted experiments with living transgenetic flies in her Lincoln laboratory during October 2015.
Albeanu and colleagues, including Arkarup Banerjee and Fred Marbach, graduate students in the Watson School for Biological Sciences at CSHL and co-first authors of the Neuron paper, conducted experiments in living animals that revealed a mechanism for adjusting olfactory signal gain.
In a recent study appearing in Nature Publishing Group's Scientific Reports, the researchers focused on the properties of schreibersite and conducted experiments with the mineral to better understand how — in a chemical reaction with the corrosive effects of water called «phosphorylation» — schreibersite could have provided the phosphate important to the emergence of early biological life.
Lab courses are supposed to enable students to see how physics principles work in real life; conducting experiments should help them understand physics better and reinforce classroom instruction.
In addition to halting H5N1 transmissibility research, «no experiments with live H5N1 or H5 HA reassortant viruses already shown to be transmissible in ferrets will be conducted during this time.
In this issue, experiments were conducted with sediment dwelling marine worms, showing that chemically inert microplastics of a size similar to sand grains from the beaches in which the worms lived caused physical harm (Wright et al.) whilst Browne et al. showed microplastic can move pollutants and additives to worms, reducing functions linked to health and biodiversity.
Gokhale then made mutations to inactivate the modifications at each of these regions and conducted a series of experiments to untangle which stage of the viral life cycle was affected.
Now that it has become clear that polychaetes inhabit depths reachable by scuba divers, the researchers hope to conduct experiments using living specimens to gain a deeper understanding of marine life in the area, helping to create an information infrastructure vis - à - vis local biodiversity.
After the Soviet Union's break - up in 1991, the observatory fell on hard times, but Ambartsumian went on living near the facility and continued conducting experiments there until his death in 1996.
Renowned for devising means for young people, teachers, and parents to conduct sophisticated experiments with DNA, the DNALC also has a robust presence on the Internet, powered by a team of multimedia innovators who bring knowledge of the life sciences to the digital world.
UNC scientists conduct seminal experiments to unveil how early - in - life visual experiences — simply trying to see — sculpt a particular subnetwork of brain circuitry we need in order to see properly.
And, in those areas to which we commit, we assemble the best scientists in the world, give them sufficient resources to take chances and conduct the hard experiments, create the best infrastructure to support their research, and explore creative models to help discoveries get one step closer to improving human lives.
4 By applying insights from studying the foundations and preservation of complex life on Earth to missions on Mars (members of our team are actively involved in mission planning for both the Curiosity and Opportunity rovers, as well as conducting laboratory experiments on Earth to enable interpretation of the data returned from Mars);
conducting experiments, and establishing meaningful relationships — all without significant disruption to family life or other professional commitments.
They chose fruit flies because flies and humans use many of the same genes, but the genetic makeup of flies is much simpler and the short life cycle of flies better assists scientists in conducting genetic experiments, Panin said.
To see how people's online lives might be affected by their senses of purpose, the researchers conducted two experiments.
So on one of «those» mornings filled with regret and tears, I decided to conduct a sobriety experiment that would transform my life.
Barely registering the existence of his two daughters even when they're standing right in front of him (Leigh regular Ruth Sheen is constantly, hilariously livid as their mother), he springs to giddy life when a «natural philosopher» (played by frequent Leigh collaborator Lesley Manville) drops by his studio to conduct an experiment involving sunlight, a needle, and a prism.
Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson), a coder at a Google - like company called Bluebook, wins an employee lottery to spend a week with CEO Nathan Bateman (Oscar Isaac), an eccentric billionaire genius who lives in a remote, high - tech house on a mountain estate, the better to conduct his mind - blowing experiments without scrutiny.
As a young woman Rachel took part in the daring capture and killing of a notorious Nazi doctor called Dieter Vogel, who conducted unspeakable experiments on living subjects in the Birkenau concentration camp.
Continuing my effort to study how cultural experiences affect students, I am conducting an experiment in which school groups can win free tickets to see live theater performances.
It's also true that I have been conducting experiments on how the performing arts affect students, including this piece on a musical performance, and a forthcoming piece in Education Next about an experiment in which students were assigned by lottery to see Hamlet and A Christmas Carol or to serve in the control to identify what students learn from seeing live theater.
Told in alternating chapters, these four variations on a character's life are disorienting until the novel establishes a quadraphonic rhythm, and it becomes clear that Auster is conducting a grand experiment, not only in storytelling, but also in the endless nature - versus - nurture debate, the perpetual dance between inheritance and free will, intention and chance, dreams and fate.
These researchers prefer to conduct experiments on pets and other animals that have lived with people, since they are usually docile and easy to handle.
Tales of dead rising back up and walking among the living, the abomination of an experiment, conducted by Dr. Stockhausen himself... Will you dare to find all the clues leading to the horrible revelation?
Will we continue to stand by and allow the power structure and the military industrial complex to conduct experiments of insanity on what is yet left of Earth's life support systems?
The Renewable Living Social Experiment was conducted in partnership with University College London (UK) and the Tilburg University (NL).
The simple fact is that while iron fertilization experiments have been taken place for nigh on twenty years thanks to the late John Martin's iron hypothesis, none of these experiments have lasted long enough or been conducted on a large enough scale to effectively measure the entire life of a pleagic phytoplankton bloom, artificially fertilized or naturally occuring.
Tiangong 1, whose name translates as «Heavenly Palace,» had two modules, one for its solar panels and engines, and one for a pair of astronauts to live in and conduct experiments.
Research Scientists are responsible for conducting experiments in areas such as biochemistry and life sciences.
Essential work duties seen on a Botanist resume are conducting research, determining how plants influence the environment, conducting experiments, and advocating for preserving plant life.
Bringing 10 years of experience in conducting species inventories, testing and monitoring sea life, and collecting and experimenting on samples.
SUMMARY Exceptionally talented Commercial Diver with over 13 years experience in working below surface of water, using Surface Supplied Diving Equipment to inspect, repair, remove, or install equipment and structures, using a variety of power and hand tools, such as drills, sledgehammers, torches, and welding equipment conducting tests and experiments, rigging explosives, and photographing structures and marine life.
Because researchers can not conduct a true experiment and randomly allocate children to live with single or married parents, it is difficult to rule out the selection perspective.
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