Sentences with phrase «finding complex life»

A survey conducted by astronomers at Cornell University has taken into account the characteristics of 637 known exoplanets and elaborated a Biological Complexity Index (BCI) to assess the relative probability of finding complex life on them.

Now, a group of scientists at Cornell University led by associate professor Alberto Fairén have proposed a formula that takes into account the characteristics of over 600 known exoplanets to help estimate how likely we are to find complex life on them.

Not exact matches

If reason tells us that «John 1800» engraved into a rock must have an intelligent mind as its source, should not also the infinitely more complex and meaningful information found in our DNA point toward a Supreme Designer that gave us life as well as creating all the universe?

The highest complexity, however, is found in between, in the mid-range among various modes of simplification; and it is these complex modes which have special «value,» which can maintain «intensity,» which lead to organic life and all that it entails.

We often wish we could find a verse that would settle all the complex issues of family life, economic competition and tension, international order, and war.

I found myself fascinated by the way Greg handles and defends their increasingly complex friendship, as it's one that can simultaneously make you feel guilty for laughing at the real - life Tommy's mannerisms, accent and awkward behavior.

One way of viewing the religious crisis of our time is to see it not in the first instance as a challenge to the intellectual cogency of Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, or other traditions, but as the gradual erosion, in an ever more complex and technological society, of the feeling of reciprocity with nature, organic interrelatedness with the human community, and sensitive attention to the processes of lived experience where the realities designated by religious symbols and assertions are actually to be found, if they are found at all.

No more than if you found a watch lying in the desert, running or not, that you would or could assume it happened by accident... common sense would dictate that intelligent life had to have made this watch as complex things simply do not «create» themselves by accident, no matter how many millions / billions of years have passed.

Nobel Prize - winning chemist Harold Urey, famous for his role in recreating the building blocks of life from inor - ganic matter, has been widely quoted that «all of us who study the origin of life find that the more we look into it, the more we feel that it is too complex to have evolved anywhere.»

It is through the struggle of grappling with baffling problems, of confronting complex truth and mind - stretching mysteries that one finds deep satisfactions from his religious life.

He said, «In my parish duties I found that the simple idealism into which the classical faith had evaporated was as irrelevant to the crises of personal life as it was to the complex social issues of an industrial city.»

The life of its people together will be complex, the demands of being a Christian difficult, but they will find joy and peace as they seek to embody the symbol of one who gave his life for what he believed.

When you pro-life contradictions stop acting like life begins at conception and ENDS AT BIRTH, when you stop using abortion as a political wedge issue to shore up votes and show that you actually understand and act on ALL the complex issues at work, you might actually find others more sympathetic to your alleged cause.

Frustration is not new to human nature; but as life becomes more complex and the means of satisfying material desires more numerous and alluring, frustration at failure to find the deeper satisfactions increases proportionately.

Process - relational thinkers here find scientific backing for their contention that there is an element of freedom, mentality, purpose in anything actual at all, and that needs to be the case in a consistently evolutionary view where the complex forms of life emerge from the simple.

Under the stress of complex modern life, with its speed, mechanics, and disregard for personal relationships, man found it difficult to make adjustments and to find a meaningful life.

you can find examples of this pathetic god and its very human traits... its all thru out the bible, and it even makes excuses for why god seems so human — two possible reasons for this — either those who wrote the bible screwed up and forgot to make god seem godlike because its all a lie... a fabrication of man... or god isn't a god but rather a petty, hateful alien with a napoleon complex (not sure they have a napoleon in the alien form... godzilla — lol, but godzilla at least is a true possibility... god and those who believe are living in a fantasy world!!

I am not terribly interested in creating a credible religious Tradition... but that just may be a difference between our life goals... yet, I find it fascinating that you are moving towards encouraging a religious tradition by the approach of offering a more complex answer.

And just discovered your website — fabulous, and I love that you don't use complex ingredients (I live in Paris, France where I can rarely find some things and your recipes look feasible... and delicious, can't wait to try them!)

I wish it were as simple as that, but it appears to be much more complex; even happy people with fulfilling lives can marry and find out that they made a mistake — and then feel trapped in a marriage that crushes their spirit.

The Lorax wrote: «I find this incredibly romantic because it is way more dedicated to living with conscious commitment to each other every day than any artificial construct created by the wedding industrial complex.»

The reasons are complex, but I found I couldn't balance fatherhood and family life.

I find it interesting that the same 20 - something bachelor who stated inconvenience as his # 1 factor also admitted that in college he didn't even recycle when he lived in an apartment complex with a designated dumpster for recyclables.

Overall, the message is as simple as the means are complex — know who your people are, go find»em where they live, and make it easy for them to stay in touch.

In findings published January 10 in Science Translational Medicine, the new compound even eradicated stubborn pathogens growing together in tough - to - treat microbial mats called biofilms, which are complex communities that can be 10 to 1,000 times more tolerant to antibiotics than free - living bacteria.

In animal models, the researchers found that using microRNA to disrupt cells in the brain's prefrontal cortex — a region associated with complex planning and decision - making — affected learning and memory later in life.

We find that it is unlikely that this obligate symbiotic relationship relies on a single process or pathway, but rather on more complex interactions that likely vary over the life cycle of the parasite,» the researchers conclude.

Possible nearest living relatives to complex life found in seafloor mud.

«For complex animal life, color is a factor in how individuals recognize and respond to others, determine friend or foe, and find mates.

Synthetic biology enables researchers to tackle a huge and diverse range of applied problems: building a cell with the smallest possible genome; synthesizing proteins with extra amino acids — more than the 20 found in nature; using bacteria to produce medicines previously too complex to synthesize; even decomposing living organisms into standard, off - the - shelf «biobricks» that can be assembled on demand.

The new findings prove that a group of cells in the brain can turn a short - lived sensation into complex, long - lasting muscle movements, says physiologist Simon Alford of Northwestern University.

Sponges were the first multicellular animals to evolve, so the finding means all complex life has a skin.

The finding raises the possibility that complex animal life could exist in all kinds of harsh, oxygen - free environments — on Earth and perhaps on other worlds, too.

This finding, published July 14 in Scientific Reports, suggests that complex life can be...

The first Earth - size planets that Kepler finds will probably be very close to their star, so they will be very hot, probably too hot for complex molecules to exist and too hot for life.

Of course most stars are found in galaxies, so there could be a million instances of complex life in the Milky Way, separated by an average of only 300 light years.

The findings add to the growing understanding of the complex relationship between our health and the bacteria living in and on our bodies.

The existence of microbial life on Mars remains highly controversial, but recent evidence of water, complex organic molecules, and methane in the Martian environment, combined with findings from the 1976 Viking mission, have led to the conclusion that existing life on Mars is a possibility that must be considered, as presented in an article in Astrobiology.

Species that live in the same habitat with other closely related species tend to have more complex facial patterns, suggesting that complex faces may also aid in species recognition, the life scientists found.

The new period takes its name from Ediacaran fossils, remains of the oldest - known complex animal life, that were found in abundance in the Ediacaran Hills of South Australia.

«If you find complex organic species on Mars, it's not necessarily life.»

The researchers also found that those fish raised in a more complex social environment have a different brain structure to those who experienced fewer group members in early life.

«We predicted we would only find a significant percentage of clay minerals in sediments toward the end of the Precambrian, when complex life arose, while earlier sediments would have less clay content,» Kennedy explains.

The first article, «Complex mixtures, complex responses: Assessing pharmaceutical mixtures using field and laboratory approaches,» reports on studies monitoring multiple the life stages of fathead minnows using both simple (groups of drugs with similar modes of action) and complex (groups with diverse modes of action) mixtures of pharmaceuticals commonly found in treated wastewater efComplex mixtures, complex responses: Assessing pharmaceutical mixtures using field and laboratory approaches,» reports on studies monitoring multiple the life stages of fathead minnows using both simple (groups of drugs with similar modes of action) and complex (groups with diverse modes of action) mixtures of pharmaceuticals commonly found in treated wastewater efcomplex responses: Assessing pharmaceutical mixtures using field and laboratory approaches,» reports on studies monitoring multiple the life stages of fathead minnows using both simple (groups of drugs with similar modes of action) and complex (groups with diverse modes of action) mixtures of pharmaceuticals commonly found in treated wastewater efcomplex (groups with diverse modes of action) mixtures of pharmaceuticals commonly found in treated wastewater effluent.

Still, Weinberger says, the recent discoveries are very encouraging in the search for life in the cosmos, especially if astronomers find that complex organic substances are widespread throughout the universe.

The find is the first to suggest the earliest complex animals on Earth — which may be related to many of today's animal species — lived millions of years earlier than was previously known.

Those impressive noggins make it possible for primates from spider monkeys to humans to use tools, find food, and navigate the complex relationships of group living.

They don't move the way we do, but some of them, the most visible ones, grow so large and are so complex it almost seems a sign of animal life: the mushroom big as a human fist found on your lawn the day after a rain, for example.

If the new findings and dating of the fossils are correct, the theory of early complex life on Earth will need to be tweaked.

To overcome the problem of visualizing chromatin in an intact nucleus, O'Shea's team screened a number of candidate dyes, eventually finding one that could be precisely manipulated with light to undergo a complex series of chemical reactions that would essentially «paint» the surface of DNA with a metal so that its local structure and 3D polymer organization could be imaged in a living cell.