Sentences with phrase «few humans survive»

Cities have been destroyed, plants and animals have died, and few humans survive.

Not exact matches

-- William Shakespeare Most human beings, with a few exceptions lead a symbiotic life, they survive (or feed) on the mutual feeling of affection for each other.

If the insect survives for fewer than 14 days, the malaria parasites won't have enough time to mature to the stage where they can infect humans, says Matthew Thomas, an entomologist at Pennsylvania State University, University Park.

At a wet - bulb temperature of 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit), the human body can not cool itself enough to survive more than a few hours.

Making the generous assumption that humans can survive multiple ice ages and deflect an inevitable asteroid or comet strike (NASA predicts that between now and then, no fewer than 10 the size of the rock that wiped out the dinosaurs will hit), the researchers forecast we will then encounter a much bigger problem: an aging sun.

That distinction was tragically brief because Laika died only a few hours later, apparently from a combination of stress and overheating, but she lasted long enough to suggest that humans, too, might survive weightlessness and find a future in space.

Hydrogen sulfide is found in small amounts in human blood, he says, and «because of cases where people have survived for hours trapped under ice,» he says, «there has been a lot of speculation that the ability to hibernate isn't confined to the relatively few species it's normally observed in.»

To uncover how groups of cancer cells achieve functional diversity (through RNA) to survive chemotherapy, Lopez - Diaz dosed dishes of human pre-cancer and metastatic breast cancer cells with the cancer drug paclitaxel for a week and then removed the drug for a few weeks, mimicking the treatment cycle for a cancer patient.

Within a few days, that single cell divides over and over again until it forms a blastocyst, a hollow ball of 150 to 200 cells that give rise to every single cell type a human body needs to survive, including the umbilical cord and the placenta that nourishes the developing fetus.

We conclude that studies of pyrethroid efficacy should not discount mosquitoes that survive insecticide exposure with fewer than six legs, as they may still be capable of biting humans, reproducing, and contributing to malaria transmission.

In fact silver ions can not survive inside the human for more than a few seconds.

The few humans that survived the simian plague are gathering together to go to war against Caesar, his army of similarly intelligent, genetically evolved apes.

With no system in place to humanely reduce their populations and few animal welfare organizations or shelters able to help and protect them, stray cats are basically on their own to either survive or die, whether from starvation, extreme temperatures, disease or abuse at that hands of humans.

Like the comic and television series, it will focus on a group of strangers fighting to survive in a world where the few remaining humans can prove equally as monstrous as the flesh - craving corpses now roaming the earth.

Avalanche Studios will be trading their Just Cause games» usual tropical islands for Mad Max's desert wasteland where the few humans who survive are all, well, mad.

Since Lovelock said that a few breeding pairs of humans might survive at the poles he was not really suggesting anything that falls under the definition of a «city».

Only a few hundred million would survive, most likely in the far Northern Hemisphere, including the UK. These survivors would adapt to the new hot state and ensure the continuation of the human species.

Recent research on the worst heat projections in the hottest area, the Persian Gulf, finds that toward the end of the century there will be a few days each decade or so when humans can not survive outside, but can live with air conditioning indoors.

British scientist James Lovelock, who predicts a rise of eight degrees in temperate areas and five degrees in the tropics this century, says the tropics will become scrub and desert, leading to unparalleled human suffering: «Before this century is over, billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable.»

«By the end of this century climate change will reduce the human population to a few breeding pairs surviving near the Arctic.»

If human civilization survives even the next few decades at the the current rate of scientific and mathematical advancement and progress, the concept of energy conversion in the next century will bear little resemblance to the «discussion» on Tom Murphy's blog.