Sentences with phrase «dozen scientists»

Currently, there are only a few dozen scientists who are pursuing this line of research and they have analyzed the mineral deposits from 100 to 200 caves in this fashion.

About two dozen scientists at PNNL have contributed to Belle II, about half in work directly related to building the detector and the other half helping manage the data.

I'm on my way to a meeting in Sicily where several dozen scientists from a variety of disciplines and countries will be exploring the influence of climate change on insect - and tick - borne diseases, the spreading challenge of Internet security, the longstanding challenge of finding safe ways to handle and store nuclear waste and a heap of other pressing subjects.

A full - time human rights forensics workforce does exist, but it numbers perhaps several dozen scientists worldwide.

For perspective, apart from these newfound dozen scientists have only identified about 60 black holes in the entire Milky Way, and all but a few are far from the galactic center.

Combining high resolution images and infrared spectra collected during the probe's approach, a team of nearly two dozen scientists pinpointed three patches of water ice on the surface of the comet's «upper» half.

Scambos and two dozen scientists onboard had hoped to get close enough to fill in critical blind spots in their knowledge.

In addition to Howard and Petigura, UH graduate students Benjamin Fulton and Kimberly Aller, and UH astronomer Michael Liu were among the two dozen scientists who contributed to the study.

With all the years that have passed since the original dozen scientists — Stern calls them the Pluto Underground — got together to brainstorm the mission, one would think that New Horizons was the product of steady, meticulous planning.

In 2015, he sent threatening letters to the employers of a half - dozen scientists whose work contradicted claims that global warming was man - made and dangerous.

The full evidence was published last spring in the journal Science, coauthored by Gallagher and two dozen scientists from Cornell and other institutions.

Brain waves usually are monitored in hospitals or research labs, but I'm in a conference room at a company called Emotiv, where a few dozen scientists have developed the gear and software that quite literally read my mind, allowing me to play a sort of video game with nothing but sheer thought.

Maff — ID was actually resurrected by about half a dozen scientists and was originally inspired by William Paley around 1800 (he was the one who came up with the watchmaker analogy).

It is gratifying to see one's name in print in a magazine or newspaper; the faces of half a dozen scientists have graced the cover of Time in the last year.

BACKGROUND: The origins of nuclear medicine involve at least a dozen scientists working on different aspects of the technology over a century, culminating in a surge of diagnostic machines in the 1980s and»90s.

The meeting room where Metzler was giving her talk was small, but it was packed, and when she was done at least a dozen scientists queued up to talk to her.

«Last year, following an intensive research effort involving a dozen scientists, I concluded that global warming was real and that the prior estimates of the rate of warming were correct.

Many of you have come to us asking for more (and more serious) advice on how to make sense of the scientific literature, so we've asked a dozen scientists at different career stages and in a broad range of fields to tell us how they do it.

Although sports figures such as tennis great Billie Jean King and Olympic champion gymnast Dominique Dawes drew most of the media attention, a half - dozen scientists were in the audience.

The element was discovered by a team of a dozen scientists from Russia, Slovakia and Finland, led by Peter Armbruster, a German physicist.

In her book, Dreger recounts the stories of almost a dozen scientists, as well as her personal experiences in some of the controversies.

Shortly afterward, McNutt headed up the Flow Rate Technical Group, a dozen scientists and engineers from public and private institutions charged with estimating the flow of oil from the spill and determining what wasn't being captured.

On a gray midwinter dawn, a dozen scientists and technicians in hard hats gather outside the entrance to the Soudan Mine.

Chapman directs a dozen scientists and staffers on various explorations of carp behavior and physiology.

In addition to awarding scores of grants to Texas labs, CPRIT has recruited at least two dozen scientists to the state, including several top - ranked researchers.

Particle Fever follows a half a dozen scientists at different stages in their careers, and captures their personalities, their bickering and camaraderie, and their well - earned jubilation.

Following half a dozen scientists at different stages of their careers (and with different, often opposing viewpoints), Fever captures their personalities, their bickering and camaraderie, their dedication and, on occasion, well - earned jubilation.

Together with Hülya Bayır, M.D., research director of pediatric critical care medicine, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC and professor, Pitt's Department of Critical Care Medicine, and a team of nearly two dozen scientists, the three senior authors worked out how the pieces of the mitochondria signaling problem fit together.

With the help of models, the researchers — more than a dozen scientists from institutes throughout Europe — analyzed data on the species found in the bogs alongside data on climate variables like temperature, moisture and precipitation.

To get the ball rolling, we e-mailed a dozen scientists with active research projects involving Azeroth and other online worlds; this became our ad hoc conference committee.

They scoured the literature and interviewed nearly two dozen scientists to determine the pros and cons of such registries — and whether they would actually make a difference.

Nearly a dozen scientists across Oak Ridge National Laboratory are teaming with medical researchers and leveraging ORNL's biggest science tools to solve a modern - day biology grand challenge: unlocking the secrets of disordered...

The Working Group of about a dozen scientists from a variety of disciplines, including biology, psychology, geography, and mathematics, has been researching the questions surrounding human risk perception and climate change since 2013.

The meeting co-chairs wanted to showcase attendees» most compelling work, so they recruited two dozen scientists to evaluate all of the submitted abstracts and select speakers to give 15 - minute talks.

In a group e-mail message on Monday, I asked half a dozen scientists featured prominently in the climate files two questions:

The conference was a one - day affair in which two dozen scientists, economists, and politicians presented their point - of - view to an audience of 250.

To help put a stop to the squabbling, two dozen scientists and citizen - scientists from three continents — including Sarah Green, professor and chair of chemistry at Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Mich. - analyzed the abstracts of nearly 12,000 peer - reviewed scientific papers on climate change published between 1991 and 2011.

314 Action has endorsed nearly a dozen scientists and science defenders running for office in 2018, including Joseph Kopser, who is running for infamous climate denier Rep. Lamar Smith's (R - TX) soon - to - be-vacant seat.

So, even though thousands of scientists have some involvement in the writing of the IPCC reports, the final views expressed by the reports are dominated by the views of a few dozen scientists.

«Governments have naively and unwisely accepted the claims of a human influence on global temperatures made by a close - knit clique of a few dozen scientists, many of them climate modellers, as if such claims were representative of the opinion of the wider scientific community.

Still, more than four dozen scientists, economists, engineers and entrepreneurs interviewed by The New York Times said that unless the search for abundant non-polluting energy sources and systems became far more aggressive, the world would probably face dangerous warming and international strife as nations with growing energy demands compete for increasingly inadequate resources.

«Last year, following an intensive research effort involving a dozen scientists, I concluded that global warming was real and that the prior estimates of the rate of warming were correct.