It's a question that has long
fascinated scientists and philosophers alike: What makes us human?
Because of this striking life history, the semi-aquatic bugs have
fascinated scientists from various disciplines, including naturalists, applied mathematicians, ecologists, Taxonomists, Palaeontologists, and recently developmental geneticists.
These fundamental questions have
fascinated scientists for decades, and a large part of the answers to them has to do with the processes that determine which regions of a cell's DNA are used to make particular proteins at a particular time.
The planet Mars has
fascinated scientists for over a century.
The physics underlying these materials — which appear to defy the conventional laws of physics — has
fascinated scientists for decades.
Ever since its discovery in 1979, the F ring — one of seven and fifth in distance from Saturn — has
fascinated scientists with its dynamic personality.
Europa, an ice - swaddled jovian satellite that has long
fascinated both scientists and science fiction writers, just got a bit more interesting.
The ability of animals to regenerate body parts has
fascinated scientists since the time of Aristotle.
The unique properties of spin ice materials have
fascinated scientists since they were first discovered in the late 1990s in naturally occurring rare earth titanites.
The enigma has
fascinated scientists for more than a century.
The properties of water have
fascinated scientists for centuries, but yet its unique behaviour remains a mystery.
As such, it is an eye - opening series that will
fascinate any scientist, especially any naive enough to think that politicians ever cared about science.
One reason the octopus
fascinates scientists is that its brain became organized to be able to carry out such incredible, complex tasks without adopting the principles of the vertebrate brain.
The properties that, according to Ettore Majorana's calculations, will characterize a Majorana particle do for a number of reasons
fascinate scientists.
Not exact matches
The public has been
fascinated by these breaks with traditional Western science and has responded enthusiastically to the writings of those
scientists who have come up with new views.
A genre of writing that
fascinates some scholars and clergy consists of books and articles written by
scientists who, venturing beyond what can be securely proved, present larger visions of the cosmos, life, the beginning and the end of all things, and the place of the human in the grand narrative.
I was
fascinated that very items
scientists identify as increasing our level of happiness are the very things that God calls us to as followers of Christ.
Philosophers, theologians, and social
scientists who formerly were
fascinated by the comparative approach to the study of world religions have begun to question the validity of such an approach.
@brenda star: I'm a Christian who's
fascinated by science & technology (i'm a lay - person, not a
scientist).
Philosophers and writers have long been
fascinated by our response to the sublime, but until a few years ago,
scientists had barely studied it.
Glacier surges have both
fascinated and perplexed
scientists for decades.
Like many young
scientists these days, after embarking on a research career, I realised that although I was
fascinated by all aspects of science — especially my own field of ecology — I did not want to spend the next 30 years writing grant proposals, carrying out experiments, and publishing technical articles.
Scientists are also
fascinated by the case.
One of the biggest mysteries of dwarf galaxies has to do with dark matter, which is why
scientists are so
fascinated by them.
«I was
fascinated by the tales of that generation of
scientist and what they did going into the field,» Saphire recalls.
Roots of Dependence I am
fascinated when
scientists think they have found a «cure» for addiction [«The Biology of... Addiction,» May].
And it again, it brought home to me the way in which Martin Gardner was at the hub of a vast universe of brilliant, sparkling intellect — including people like Marvin Minsky [at] the M.I.T. artificial intelligence lab; and John Conway who at the time was in England and later came to Princeton and who invented so many deep and fascinating mathematical ideas, especially the Game of Life, to which Martin devoted several columns and which was an incredibly important thing in bringing new ideas to the world of computation and about the cellular automata; and Donald Knuth at Stanford, the great computer [
scientist]; Perci Diaconis a statistician who is
fascinated by paradoxes of probability and a great magician as well; and Ray Hyman, a psychologist who had a spent a great deal of his life debunking people such as [Uri Geller]; and James Randi, one of the great magicians of our era who also was one of the most important debunkers of pseudoscience in the world.
That's what
fascinates psychiatrist Gary Lynch and cognitive
scientist Richard Granger.
Science never interested me until I came to prison, and it was thanks to some articles in New
Scientist that I became
fascinated with theoretical physics.
For centuries,
scientists and non-
scientists alike have been
fascinated by the beautiful and often complex collective behaviour of animal groups, such as the highly synchronised movements of flocks of birds and schools of fish.
Although sleep has
fascinated philosophers, writers and
scientists for centuries, it wasn't until the early 1950s that scientific research began in earnest.
The Reconsolidated Life While neuroscientists were skeptical of Nader's findings, cognitive
scientists were immediately
fascinated that memory might be constantly revamped.
Water exists in myriad forms, and for poets and
scientists alike this structurally simple yet at the same time behaviourally complex molecule never fails to
fascinate.
His alleged misconduct came to light through a new statistical test that has
scientists fascinated.
Nof, a cave diver himself, was already working at Florida State at the time of the 1991 accident and was
fascinated by the mystery, both as a diver and a
scientist.
The public began to take notice, and a new generation of
scientists became
fascinated by dinosaurs.
For the past 10 years,
scientists have been
fascinated by a type of «electric bacteria» that shoots out long tendrils like electric wires, using them to power themselves and transfer electricity to a variety of solid surfaces.
Scientists have been
fascinated by giant viruses since 2003, when a group of French biologists led by Didier Raoult discovered the Mimiviruses.
Scientists, too, are
fascinated by these extinct giants.
Naturally, since global interest in the strike in Siberia in 1908, the largest in recent times, a cottage industry of
scientists and tourists are
fascinated by comets in Russia.
March 30, 2018 - Growing up in Protvino, Russia, in the 1960s — home to the largest particle accelerator in the world when it launched in 1967 --- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
scientist Nicolai Martovetsky quickly became
fascinated with physics and math.
Back when stem cells were first extracted from human embryos 20 years ago,
scientists were
fascinated at their ability to change into any type of cell in the body and thought they would soon be used to treat all types of diseases, from eye disorders to diabetes.
Patricia is
fascinated by the cross-generational, interdisciplinary science exchange between top level
scientists during the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings.
With today's explosion of television programs and media coverage of the latest advancements in the forensic sciences, young people have become
fascinated with anything relating to the work of the forensic
scientist.
I am a computer
scientist who is
fascinated by the challenge of making sense of vast quantities of genetic data.
Since the late 1800s,
scientists have been
fascinated by the planarian's amazing ability to regenerate its entire body from a small wedge of tissue.
Advanced eyes are major innovations in animal evolution, and have both
fascinated and puzzled generations of
scientists.
Scientists are both bemused and
fascinated by the question of how life could have arisen on Earth.
Scientists are most
fascinated by the older brain's activation of the hippocampus because this area is generally used for more complicated memory tasks such as learning lines from a Shakespeare play.
he question of the ages of the Earth and its rock formations and features has
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