Sentences with phrase «extreme environments»

This page develops resources and lesson activities on both the physical and human challenges of living in extreme environments.

That means we can learn about star formation in such extreme environments by studying nearby dwarf galaxies.

New gadget is designed for extreme environments also soldiers in the battlefield or combat - zone.

They take it for granted that organisms can endure extreme environments.

The challenges faced in hazardous and sometimes extreme environments also excite me.

So, when searching for life in remote or extreme environments scientists typically look for signs of the kind of life we're familiar with.

What about extreme environments in which the body does not experience a normal daily cycle of sunlight and darkness?

Working in extreme environments does present some daunting challenges.

Scientists have long known that life can exist in some very extreme environments.

The students are introduced to a number of examples of tribal indigenous groups and their adaptations to live in extreme environments.

«They occupy one of the most extreme environments of all humans,» says Iain Mathieson, a human geneticist at Harvard University.

Genetic testing reveals our long - lost cousins thriving in some of the most extreme environments on Earth.

Such reactions at hydrothermal vents and in other extreme environments on Earth produce high abundances of hydrogen, which some microbes use for food.

New Zealand is full of extreme environments with extremophile microbes that may help us understand the limits of life and its origins, when Earth was a far less hospitable place.

How about a new and improved version of the bug, a bacteria that thrives in extreme environments like the hot springs of Vulcano Island, Italy?

Understanding the risks of radiation and the other extreme environments of space flight «is critical to provide safe passage for human exploration to the moon and Mars,» says microbiologist Cheryl Nickerson of Arizona State University in Tempe.

We contend that the rate of adaptation might also increase to match that of environmental degradation by carefully selecting coral populations from extreme environments and introducing them to areas that are only now beginning to experience such extremes.

Some look to the heavens for signs of alien life, but geoscientist Onstott and his colleagues probe deep below ground instead, venturing into extreme environments on our planet to understand how life might begin, and thrive, on other planets.

If those in more extreme environments begin to have troubles in several years, Nissan will have some warranty headaches, but nothing they can't weather (so to speak) and learn from, as by then the replacement batteries and BMS will be much improved and much less expensive.

Most of the biomass in the oceans would have been bacteria and archaea [another type of microbial organism that often inhabits extreme environments].

Our experienced professionals have performed tests on a variety of materials, including composites, ceramics, metals, insulations, and lubricants in both normal and extreme environments at temperatures ranging from cryogenic to more than 3000 °C.

The presence of sulfur and sulfuric acid, however, may have also been present on the early Earth and is compatible with many extreme environments where bacteria have evolved biochemical processes to extract energy without sunlight (e.g., to extract energy from the charged reactions of sulfuric acid).

Campers will explore extreme environments and extreme life at the Adler Planetarium, discover the incredible world of dinosaurs at The Field Museum, and investigate underwater environments at the Shedd Aquarium.

Since their discovery in 1970, these microorganisms have been found in many extreme environments on Earth, including hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor.

AIM Studios is the TV production unit of Warren Miller Entertainment, the original outdoor production company, and is equally adept at filming in our state - of - the - art green - screen studio and in extreme environments around the globe.

These stars are thought to be less than a few tens of millions of years old, and preliminary analysis suggests that they are hotter and brighter than stars formed in less extreme environments such as the galactic disc.

Because it was designed to withstand extreme environments.

Earthly life has proved remarkably hardy in similar extreme environments such as hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor and polar ice.

Students investigate how and why the distribution of such extreme environments change over different time scales.

It helps to keep your framerate consistent no matter how fast - paced the action is, or how extreme the environment is.

Pushing your body physically, in often extreme environments, can take its toll.

You are dealing on Mars with what I call extremophile extreme environments on steroids,» she says, «and you don't look for microbial life with telescopes from Mars orbit.»

This pages provides resources and lesson ideas on the opportunities and challenges of tourism in a number of extreme environments including Antarctica and Nepal.

While scientists search for signs of biosignatures outside Earth and study extreme environments on Earth to try to understand how life evolved on Earth, there is still much work to do.

The changing distribution of extreme environments over time, including the advance and retreat of glaciers and natural desertification

Not only that, we could also test Einstein's general theory of relativity in the most extreme environment yet.

Many artificial nanostructures, such as carbon nanotubes (cylindrical siblings of the famous buckyball) or quantum dots, can already be built, but only in extreme environments characterized by hard vacuums, high - intensity radiation, or directed electron beams.

The pioneering undersea habitats of the 1960s showed that people could live and explore in unexpectedly extreme environments.

Study lead author, Dr Verena Schoepf from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (Coral CoE) at the University of Western Australia's Oceans Institute says the researchers were surprised to find that corals around the Kimberley region in north Western Australia are just as sensitive to heat stress and bleaching as their counterparts from less extreme environments elsewhere.

«New technique for finding life on Mars: Miniature instruments and new techniques can detect and analyze microorganisms in extreme environments resembling those on Mars.»

Dr Hawkes, formerly of Bangor University, added: «The wider implications of these findings are for low oxygen medical conditions in humans, such as heart attack and stroke — suggesting what adaptations might help prevent problems in the first place and learning how animals have managed to cope with really extreme environments.»

The microbial communities in the Earth's most extreme environments help them understand the conditions necessary to support life and what kinds of biosignatures to look for on other planets.

A star is too extreme an environment for life as we know it — it's an enormous ball of hot plasma and even if it had a solid surface to stand on, which it doesn't, life forms like us would get crushed under the star's tremendous gravitational pull.

«The locations in our solar system where extreme environments occur in which life might exist may bring us closer to answering the question: are we alone in the universe.»

Genetic differentiation and selection against migrants in evolutionarily replicated extreme environments.

As the Shuttle program got under way, the ability of Southern Research engineers to evaluate materials in extreme environments once again played a vital role.

This page introduces extreme environments and their distribution.

We leave MXGP 3 behind for a moment to discuss the surprise announcement of GRAVEL, an off - road arcade racer which features a number of open - world extreme environments.

Each of Redout — Lightspeed Edition's 35 tracks feature extreme environments — from lush jungles to frozen tundras and back to harsh deserts where sandstorms obstruct your vision — that are visually stunning even in their low polygon style.

• Climax action Over-the-top action in extreme environments resulting in continuous high levels of tension and excitement — Bayonetta pushes the genre into new realms of intensity.