Sentences with phrase «deeper than scientists»

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On May 26, NASA announced a suite of instruments that will accompany the spacecraft they're designing to send to Europa — a moon four times smaller than Earth that scientists suspect could harbor a deep, vast, salty ocean beneath its thick, icy surface.

The very fact that we need such a definition, the very fact that social scientists need to work so hard to be included in policy discussions to the same extent as, say, economists (held in high esteem as being infallible, such as they are these days, naturally...), could be symptomatic of something deeper than social scientists being bad lobbyists.

Another model predicted that cycle 24 would be weaker than recent cycles, but the present model's accuracy in predicting past events and scientists» deeper understanding of the underlying solar physics may give it an edge, according to David Hathaway, a solar astronomer at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.

By measuring the remaining difference — the 20,000 - year old ice deep in the West Antarctic ice sheet is about 1 degree Celsius cooler than the surface — the scientists were able to estimate the original temperature based on how fast pure ice warms up.

In New Zealand, scientists are exploring why some faults are more prone to earthquakes than others by studying rocks extracted from deep within the wildly dynamic Alpine fault — the system that formed the mountains in the backdrop of The Lord of the Rings movies.

Scientists estimate the ocean is 60 miles (100 kilometers) thick — 10 times deeper than Earth's oceans — and is buried under a 95 - mile (150 - kilometer) crust of mostly ice.

They also found that sharks used powered swimming more often than a gliding motion to move through the ocean, contrary to what scientists had previously thought, and that deep - sea sharks swim in slow motion compared to shallow water species.

Using advanced diving technology to survey reefs at depths up to 300 feet, much deeper than conventional scuba gear allows, scientists were able to observe rarely seen ecosystems.

Jerry Glover, a soil scientist, shows off a perennial wheatgrass plant's long roots, which grow deeper than annual plants» roots, improving soil structure and reducing erosion.

Images from the Deep Space 1 spacecraft show that Comet Borrelly is the darkest object yet observed in the inner solar system, and several spots on its surface are blacker than anything planetary scientists have ever seen.

Scientists have shown for the first time that deep - sea fishes that use bioluminescence for communication are diversifying into different species faster than other glowing fishes that use light for camouflage.

«That means our citizen scientists are probing much deeper than anyone has before.»

The scientists said one - third of the Great Barrier Reef lies beyond the seaward edge of the shallower reefs, and the discovery of this prominent undersea landslide and its vast debris field in the deep Great Barrier Reef reveals a far more complex landscape than previously known.

With an atmosphere of much less than one percent oxygen, scientists have presumed that there were things living in deep water in the mud that didn't need sunlight or oxygen, but Czaja says experts didn't have any direct evidence for them until now.

Understanding these pocket rain forests and how they sustain themselves in the middle of a rugged desert has become the life's work of a small cadre of scientists who are only now beginning to fully appreciate Fray Jorge's third and deepest surprise: The trees that grow here do more than just drink the fog.

«Scientists slash computations for deep learning: «Hashing» can eliminate more than 95 percent of computations.»

And that meant creating an unprecedented participatory experiment on China's blogs, microblogs, and forums — one that «probes much deeper than earlier studies,» says Noah Smith, a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who was not involved with the study.

Scientists are still unraveling the mysteries of the deep internal network of magma chambers and lava tubes of Kilauea, which has been in continuous eruption for more than 30 years and is currently the most active volcano in the world.

In a paper published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, FSU Assistant Professor of Geology Mainak Mookherjee reports that water exists far deeper in the Earth than scientists previously thought.

Deep within their cells people may share more with birds than scientists expected.

NASA scientists say a new study proves there are seven times as many big and potentially dangerous comets flying through deep space than previously thought.

By examining the cooling rate of rocks that formed more than 10 miles beneath the Earth's surface, scientists led by The University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences have found that water probably penetrates deep into the crust and upper mantle at mid-ocean spreading zones, the places where new crust is made.

In The Beauty of Dirty Skin, internationally renowned dermatologist and scientist Dr. Whitney Bowe shows readers that skin health is much more than skin deep.

Long before Star Trek, and truth be told, actually better made than ALL of them, comes this opportunity to cinematically philosophize about the frailty of the human condition while wearing color coordinated jumpsuits, holding a ray gun in one hand and some scientist's half - naked daughter in the other, while backed by weird electronic noise (naturally)- or Manifest Destiny in Deep Space.

For now, he is distinctive for his demonstrable urge to explore life's deepest mysteries — a shared trait of scientists and artists — and his hunch that these mysteries might, sooner rather than later, be revealed by human endeavor.

Objective scientists realize that coral, foraminifera and shellfish have deep mechanism that have evolved over 100s of millions of years as CO2 has fluctuated far wider than we see in the atmosphere today.

Perhaps you could explain to us how you happen to have acquired a deeper understanding of climate change than the prestigious scientists who make up these institutions?

NASA scientists say a new study proves there are seven times as many big and potentially dangerous comets flying through deep space than previously thought.

Rather than making excuses, good scientists would dig deeper to see if there are any other surprises lurking in the data.

The drought atlases provide a much deeper understanding of natural climate processes than scientists have had to date, said Richard Seager, a coauthor of the paper and a climate modeler at Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory.

Considering that the last report was described by one IPCC lead author (no less a luminary than Canada's «best - known climate scientist») as a «barrage of intergalactic ballistic missiles» one can hardly wait to see how much deeper into the apparently bottomless hyperbole pool they will be diving.

More than 2,000 economists and scientists recently called on «our nation's leaders to swiftly establish and implement policies to bring about deep reductions in heat - trapping emissions.»

The scientists believe that nitrogen's relatively small impact on the carbon cycle is due to the fact that deeper layers of permafrost won't thaw until the fall or even early winter, when summer's warmth finally reaches more than one meter below ground.

Scientists have found that coral colonies nearer the surface often harbor a different type of symbiont than colonies living just a few meters deeper.

In addition, it seems fair to suggest that other climate scientists who knew better, or should have known better, have worked to enable Mann08's authors, helping them to dig in deeper rather than searching for a way out.

Let's face it, you're out of your league when you are disputing what thousands of highly trained scientists (who apparently have an understanding on a much deeper level than you) are doing with very high - powered computing machines.

Since ocean water can't travel on the time - scales predicated by the models the scientists conceived to record these measurements (less than 10 - 20 years), they think that energy is transferred instead along a deep pressure wave.

These scientists have found that, in the absence of any significant CO2 concentration changes or human influence during the Holocene (i.e., the last ~ 10,000 years), the deep oceans naturally warmed by more than 2 °C in a span of just 200 years, which is several times the rate in which they are alleged to have warmed in the last ~ 60 years of the supposedly dominant anthropogenic influence on climate.

Gore muddied the water, and his sequel did worse than fail to clear up new ambiguity he created, it opened the door for deep, tough examination of why his «industry - corrupted skeptic climate scientists» accusation which relies on a single source for its support is neither consistent nor crystal clear about its origins.

Highlights of Relevant Experience: Managed matrix team of U.S. and U.K. scientists in first ever large - scale use of US DNA TAP Store integrated liquid handling capabilities to support deep sequencing technology project to generate data for genetic rare variants and for potential asset realignment with project delivery of more than 12,000 samples prepared under extremely tight time lines for GlaxoSmithKline.