Sentences with phrase «daily lives of scientists»

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The paper, called «Biomechanical Characteristics of Hand Coordination in Grasping Activities of Daily Living», saw Chinese scientists from Huazhong University explore how tendons worked when the hand performed everyday activities.

It has said that the whole experience of man in its every phase — from the genius of the artist and scientist and poet and thinker, to the commonplace life of the family and the daily round of the office and shop and school, not to speak of nature and its beauty, its regularity, its predictability, its reliability — is all in its way and in its degree a means for the divine self - revelation.

Jules suggests to me that as many as eighty per cent of techies are religious, but that this number is highly uncertain because the subject matter is taboo among most modern scientists; it's not something we talk about in our daily working lives.

In an unprecedented experiment, a young scientist and his wife set out to share the daily life of giant gorillas in Africa's mountains.

Instruct your young scientist to visit the 3M Innovation page where they will get tons of great encouragement and ideas on how 3M scientists impact our daily lives.

Host and current fellow at the National Institutes of Health Danielle Friend introduces listeners to a new podcast series «Scientists are People Too» in which scientists are asked about their work and daScientists are People Too» in which scientists are asked about their work and dascientists are asked about their work and daily lives.

Materials scientist Miodownik intertwines humorous vignettes of daily life in London with subatomic behavior to explain the feats of engineering that brought us samurai swords, skyscrapers, pool balls and even chocolate.

A sleep deficiency of even a small degree can disrupt our lives in a number of ways — from a setback in daily routine to bringing about or exacerbating existing chronic diseases,» said Andrew N. Carr, Ph.D., Clinical Scientist and study co-author, Procter & Gamble.

The different languages of scientist and industrialist, patient and clinician, weapons scientist and antinuclear activist, Russian and American scientists are brought to life in the intricacies of their daily dealings with one another.

E = mc2: The Great Ideas That Shaped Our World By Pete Moore, Friedman / Fairfax Exclusive to Discover from Barnes & Noble Booksellers We also like... Books Mind Over Matter: Conversations With the Cosmos K. C. Cole, Harcourt, $ 25 In this collection of 92 short essays, Cole, a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, ponders how science affects our daily lives, and conversely, how the events of everyday life inspire scientists.

THE computer age dawned before this magazine launched, but New Scientist has been around for long enough to capture the machines» ever - accelerating evolution and their infiltration of our daily lives.

Beyond inventions that revolutionized daily life, Bell Lab scientists made fundamental discoveries — such as the wave nature of matter and the microwave background radiation from the big bang — earning six Nobel Prizes including the one shared in 1997 by Secretary Chu for a method of trapping atoms with lasers.

Scientists have debated whether the first significant phase of the compilation of biblical texts happened before or after the fall of the first Temple, in 586 B.C. To get at the potential answers to that question, a group of researchers in Israel analyzed mundane inscriptions about the needs of daily life on 16 ceramic shards written about 600 B.C. from an ancient military fortress in Arad, at the northern edge of the Negev desert.

Shwetak Patel, a computer scientist at the University of Washington, Seattle, who has invented a series of sensor technology systems for home environments with the goal of saving energy and improving daily life.

Blamed for everything from E numbers to the destruction of the ozone layer, the chemicals industry has every reason to feel unloved, despite the widespread benefits that it has brought to every aspect of daily life, not least the paper and inks that bring us New Scientist every week.

Trautwein is in the midst of a multi-year project sampling arthropods (and collecting mite samples) alongside citizen scientists in homes on all seven continents, exploring the overlooked life that shares our homes and bodies on a daily basis.

Valorie Aquino, one of three co-chairs of the March for Science and a paleoclimate researcher at the University of New Mexico, says it is crucial for scientists to tell their stories and personalize for the public the role science plays in their daily lives.

Scientists have long understood that the hippocampus — a pair of seahorse - shaped structures in the brain's temporal lobes — plays a critical role in our ability to remember the who, what, where, and when of our daily lives.

Clinging lifeforms might scale the walls of the cracks and even hibernate within the walls, whereas floating life forms may be able to move with the tides as the cracks open and close on a daily cycle (David L. Chandler, New Scientist, October 20, 2002).

Kessler Foundation scientists found that the Brief International Cognitive Assessment for Multiple Sclerosis (BICAMS) predicted performance of activities of daily living using Actual Reality ™ (AR).

The crown jewel of Abel Mendez's laboratory at the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo was the art on the walls: scientists» portraits of distant worlds where they believe other types of life forms may be quietly mirroring our own daily habits.

A group of Italian scientists led by Dr. Enzo Nisoli at Milan University School of Medicine, Milan, Italy, has reported that a diet supplemented daily with an amino acid mixture enriched with BCAAs makes mice live longer (D'Antona et al. 2010).

The Nobel Prizes represent recognition that science, research, and scientists are producing new achievements that benefit all of us in our daily life.

(An infant typically consumes 500 grams of breast milk daily in the first days of life, according to a report about the case in New Scientist.)

Italian scientists believe that the daily intake of the «elixir of life» in middle aged people is in the form of protein shakes.

The military guarding peace in their native land, the guards of the order, daily venturing their lives for the peace of mind of all people, volunteers, firefighters and rescuers, Red Cross staff, doctors and scientists, often exposed to potential danger - all these are modern heroes who deliberately chose their path simultaneously with the choice of profession.

She includes absorbing details of daily life for a scientist in the field, as well as the life and behavior of penguins.

The vast majority of nuclear scientists never told us that we were almost certainly going to put our civilization in peril if we kept going about our daily lives as usual, doing exactly what we were already doing, which is what the climate scientists have been telling us for years.

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Not counting carbon emissions from burning the coal, scientists, environmentalists, and concerned citizens along coal transport routes are worried that these cumulative impacts will harm public health, disrupt their daily lives, and negatively impact the ecological health of waterways along the path from mine to port.

For example, the constant refrain about how «the consensus» was wrong about plate tectonics is useful for «skeptics» to exploit - and then argue that the existence of a «consensus» on climate change isn't meaningful - when they don't also consider just how pervasively we all trust the product of scientists» work, and by extension the power of shared opinion among experts, as we live our daily lives.

While scientists and engineers work to perfect the next generation of power sources, we still absolutely depend on fossil fuel to power our daily lives.