Sentences with phrase «discovered more than a century»

All were discovered more than a century ago but recently examined using modern scientific tools.

While working on a rare little known group of Oriental wasps that most likely parasitise the eggs of grasshoppers, locusts or crickets, not only did a team of four entomologists discover four previously unknown species, but they also found that another four species within the same genus (Habroteleia) were in fact all one and the same — a fifth species discovered more than a century ago.

The dodo skeletons described in this Memoir were discovered more than a century ago by an amateur naturalist, Etienne Thirioux, who was a barber by trade.

Although they were discovered more than a century ago, the origin of the ultra-high energy ones (with an energy above 1018 eV, or 100,000 times more energetic than the particles in the LHC beam, the most powerful particle accelerator on Earth) is still a puzzle.

It was discovered more than a century ago that burning fossil fuels would release warming gases and therefore increase global temperatures, and since then, hundreds of thousands of scientists have independently reached the conclusion that it will have terrible consequences...

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I discovered that Shinto had come to Hawaii with Japanese workers looking for jobs on the sugar plantations a little more than a century ago.

to madtown, Why Jesus was sent in Israel, because that place was part of the Roman Empire, the center of the worlds civilizatoon at that time, in the third century after Him, the Roman emperor, Constantine decreed that christianity was the official religion of the empire, and soo the teachings of Jesus inspired the whole empire, now the present Europe and the Middle East has prospered more than anywhere else in the world, The Americas was not even discovered yet by Columbus, With the prosperity of the empire was the growth of scientific knowledge that leads to what we are now, it happened because its part of Gods Will, History is its Reflectiom.

When, little more than a century ago, Man first discovered the abyss of time that lies behind him, and therefore the abyss that lies ahead, his first feeling was a tremendous hope, a sense of wonderment at the progress our fathers had made.

It took more than a century for physicians and public health experts to discover the true culprit behind yellow fever: the mosquito.

When hydrates were first discovered at the beginning of the 19th century, their weird structure made them little more than curiosities in a chemist's lab: cage - like structures of frozen water...

Ever since scientists discovered the hills more than half a century ago, many thought they resulted from cracks in Earth's crust, or faults.

Archaeologists have known of Bosnia's so - called Butmir culture for more than a century, but the extent of this earliest flourishing of settlement and agriculture was discovered only in 2002 by a joint German - Bosnian team.

During the last century, scientists discovered more than a dozen vitamins and determined minimum intake levels needed to prevent deficiency - related diseases such as scurvy and beriberi.

Macaca munzala is the first macaque species discovered in more than a century.

Bragg reflectors are named after the British father and son team who more than a century ago discovered how periodic structures reflect light in a very regular and predicable manner.

The researchers discovered that the ancient human oral microbiome already contained the basic genetic machinery for antibiotic resistance more than eight centuries before the invention of the first therapeutic antibiotics in the 1940s.

A team of researchers, including Colorado State University Professor Kurt Fausch and Jeff Falke, a CSU alumnus and an assistant professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, have discovered that more than half a century of groundwater pumping from the aquifer has led to long segments of rivers drying up and the collapse of large - stream fishes.

A cure has eluded scientists for more than a century but, now, a Montreal team of researchers may have discovered a new weapon to combat this global killer.

What scientists discovered in 2014 is that since the turn of the century, oceans have been absorbing more of global warming's heat and energy than would normally be expected, helping to slow rates of warming on land.

It has been more than a century since scientists discovered the first virus, and for decades it was known simply as a «very small disease - causing agent».

British novelist Mary Stewart's beloved «The Little Broomstick» predates J.K. Rowling's hit Harry Potter series by more than a quarter - century, which means the source material is original, even if its gorgeous big - screen adaptation feels a bit derivative in places — and derivative of not just Rowling's more richly imagined fantasy world, but also Ghibli's own «Kiki's Delivery Service,» which presents a similar plot, in reverse: There, a young witch with a flying broom loses her powers, whereas in this case, young Mary discovers a magical broom that whisks her away to Endor College, where she's celebrated for her newfound abilities.

20th Century Women (Mike Mills, 2016) In trying to understand the punk rock tribalism preoccupying the younger generation in the house, Dorothea (Annette Bening) and William (Billy Crudup) dance to Talking Heads and discover they are more «art fag» than Black Flag.

For more than half a century the Children's Book Fair has been the main location, on a global level, in which to learn about the latest trends in illustration and to discover new talents.

Their new tales, set more than a century apart, sparkle with wit, crackling dialogue, and heroines who discover the courage to reach out for life's adventures.

More than a century later her letters were discovered in the attic of her family home, finally revealing her secret.

Although their influence is now somewhat diminished, for more than a century they ran a text book marketing campaign that ensured they earned vastly inflated prices for their shiny little rocks - first by buying up the newly discovered South African diamond mines so that they effectively controlled the market, then by creating the impression of scarcity by ruthlessly controlling supplies; and then, in their pièce de résistance, commissioning one of the most successful marketing campaigns in history to create the tradition of giving diamonds as engagement gifts; which includes the famous «diamonds are forever» advertising campaign and sponsoring movies such as Gentleman Prefer Blonds (1953), To Catch A Thief (1955) and The Pink Panther (1963).

First shown in London at Autograph ABP, this exhibition examines images of blacks in 19th and 20th century Britain and features a recently discovered cache of more than 200 photographs, most of which have never been exhibited or published before.

More than 125 pieces of gold jewelry, silver, ivory, gemstones and bronze, including a trove of magnificent silver discovered in northern France, offer a rare look at the private and public display of wealth by the Roman elite over five centuries.

Well, it seems that N.A.S.A. recently discovered that this century will be a more hot one than the previous century was.

Her body was discovered in December 1983 in the store that her family had owned for more than a century.