Sentences with phrase «generations than scientists»

Mom and dad's lifestyle may leave less of a mark on future generations than scientists have suspected.

Not exact matches

Rice scientists have since overcome these problems and the current generation of hybrid rice has excellent grain quality and better resistance to pests and diseases — equivalent to or better than their inbred counterparts.

Most annoying to young, ambitious scientists like me, a whole generation of physicists seemed determined to keel over at the bench at 80 or 90 rather than retire the way the elderly were supposed to, and the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled, not too long before, that colleges and universities couldn't force them out.

With several years of postdoctoral study under their belts, today's new science faculty members are, in purely scientific terms, better trained than any previous generation of newly independent scientists.

In 2012, we reported on plans by pharmaceutical giant Hoffmann - La Roche to close its Nutley research center, which for more than 80 years provided thousands of jobs to generations of scientists and other local residents.

For us, Hawking was a valuable role model for more than the next generation of scientists.

Julian's correspondence in the Rice University collection includes more than 350 letters to or from Solly Zuckerman and more than 250 to or from Max Nicholson, the two outstanding examples of his generation of scientists with, respectively, institutional clout and bridge - building expertise between amateur and professional.

Our remounting took more than a dozen dedicated scientists and fossil preparators almost two years to complete, but Brown's masterpiece will glower menacingly at new generations of entranced visitors for decades to come.

Scientists figured out more than a decade ago how to make this specialized form of light through a process known as «high harmonic generation,» or HHG, which shifts laser light to much shorter wavelengths and shorter pulses by shining it through a cloud of gas.

Still, the burst puts scientists closer to the first generation than ever before: It is about 150 million years older than any other known astrophysical object, says astronomer Nial Tanvir of the University of Leicester in England, the lead author of one of the new Nature papers.

Many of today's scientists, she feels, are more sophisticated than the scientists of her generation.

«I believe the career I have carved out for myself will help pave the way for future generations of underrepresented minority scientists to thrive, and for all members of the scientific community to be more culturally sensitive than those who came before them,» Smith wrote in a column published in the 30 September edition of Science disclosing his own experiences with bias.

After four years, or 2100 algae generations later, the scientists concluded: The cells of adapted populations divided considerably faster than the non-adjusted when exposed to ocean acidification.

«Scientists challenge next - generation sequencing dogma: Surprising bacteria study reveals that shotgun sequencing misses major groups of organisms despite producing more data than amplicon sequencing.»

If the recipients of LRPs and early career awards are successful at the next stage of their careers, the average age of physician - scientists should begin to decrease during the next decade (that decrease in age may not be dramatic, however, since research careers now begin later in life than a generation ago because of lengthened training requirements).

Younger generations (ages 18 to 49) are more likely than older ones to see scientists in agreement about climate change.

Perceptions of scientific consensus also tend to vary by age with younger generations (ages 18 to 49) more likely than older ones to see scientists as in agreement on these topics.

To this day, more than 430 recipients of the Nobel Prize have followed the annual invitation to meet the next generation of leading scientists at Lindau.

Scientists predict this might be the first generation of Americans in 200 years to have shorter life spans than their parents.

In the 1950s, Callendar's claims provoked a few scientists to look into the question with far better techniques and calculations than earlier generations could have deployed.

Perceptions of scientific consensus also tend to vary by age with younger generations (ages 18 to 49) more likely than older ones to see scientists as in agreement on these topics.

Younger generations (ages 18 to 49) are more likely than older ones to see scientists in agreement about climate change.

A policy driven dumbing down of science leading to a new generation of intellectually impoverished adherents of post modernism «science», all policy apparachiks, little more than goose step impersonators masquerading as «scientists».

We have for generations heard from freaks who advocate studying science with little discernible effect in attracting new students in either secondary or tertiary studies; one of the reasons for this is that we have been inundated by facile boosters rather than hearing from older, mature scientists who can present a philosophically considered point of view on the value and the limitations of science.

Hansen, a respected climate scientist and an advocate for next - generation nuclear power, recently published a scientific paper showing that nuclear energy has actually saved more than 1.6 million lives, by displacing coal.

With power generation still dominated by coal and governments failing to increase investment in clean energy, top climate scientists have said that the target of keeping the global temperature rise to less than 2C this century is slipping out of reach.

The fact that polar ice is disappearing faster than predicted from the models along with permafrost decline and more besides seem to indicate to many climate scientists (who incidently appear profously in the Fred Pearce book — the last generation) that human induced climate change is happenning faster than can be explained by the primarily linear models.

Newer computer models that scientists are using to help prepare the next IPCC report, which is scheduled to be released in 2014, do a much better job capturing the historical sea ice trends than the previous generation of models did, several sea ice experts told Climate Central.