Sentences with phrase «greater than scientists»

What if uncertainty is actually greater than scientists think?

The brightly colored animals came to scientific attention only because they were living as pets in small riverbank settlements — suggesting that the number of undiscovered species in the Amazon basin is even greater than scientists suspect.

Not exact matches

As Stulberg tells Science of Us, behavior scientist K. Anders Ericsson discovered in the 1990's that what separates great performers — musicians, artists, chess players, even physicians — from everyone else was not that they practiced more than their peers.

SYDNEY (AP)-- Mass bleaching has killed more than a third of the coral in the northern and central parts of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, though corals to the south have escaped with little damage, scientists said on Monday.

When the scientists modeled disease transmission, they found that while an «infected person's 11 nearest neighbors faced a greater than 80 percent chance of infection,» Wired reports, «all the remaining passengers, however, had a lower than 3 percent risk.»

You are no more a scientist than The Three Little Pigs is a work of great literature.

Lesser men than the great scientists too readily assumed that all new knowledge must be made to fit the «scientific» dogma, just as earlier it was expected to fit the ecclesiastical dogma.

Dawkins was also well known by the public as a great scientist, though his true talent was in communicating scientific ideas in books such as The Selfish Gene (Oxford University Press) rather than in his actual research.

In fact the point has been made more than once that the great age of science was prepared by a belief in a god who was himself a scientist and technician, and who would therefore approve of a civilization committed to such an enterprise.

Cocoa powder and dark chocolate has equivalent polyphenol content and greater antioxidant and flavanol content than various super fruits, claims a new study by research scientists based at the Hershey Center for Health and Nutrition.

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By the way, a great book by another skeptical OBGYN is called «Born in the USA» only he's skeptical of medicalized birth because he's a clinical scientist as well, unlike our author here and he's realized that home birth is safer than hospital birth according to peer - reviewed large scale studies.

Recent studies have shown that children are not only more obese than they should be, but even in elementary school the cholesterol counts of many are greater than 180, well above the 170 - or-less guidelines established by the National Cholesterol Education Program, a countrywide consortium of physicians and scientists.

Trouble is, today's Iraq's Wikileaks seems to have the potential to arouse even more passions, and indeed result in greater adverse consequences than some scientists being outed as childish and maybe a bit sloppy.

In Portugal, job opportunities for scientists from abroad are much better than they used to be 25 years ago, but there still is «no decent seed money or a reentry funding policy, which is a great pity, because everything else makes us feel that we are becoming a «normal» scientific country,» de Sousa says.

The scientists also found that migratory freshwater fishes are at greater risk than their marine brethren, which makes sense considering that the avenues of travel available to freshwater species are much more restricted.

Scientists have invented a new class of dry batteries — the kind used in flashlights, for example — that have greater capacity and a faster discharge rate than ones on the market today, according to a report in tomorrow's issue of Science.

He added that scientists need to monitor carbon storage and possible temperature increases in oceans at depths greater than 2 kilometers in addition to adding biogeochemical sensing capacity.

Two scientists proposed in 2008 that humans can not effectively dissipate heat with extended exposure to a wet - bulb temperature, which combines heat and humidity, that is greater than 35 ° C.

Academia now serves as a «training ground» rather than a career destination for the great majority of scientists, with work in industry, government, or other nonacademic employers the «new norm.»

In the study, scientists from the Potsdam - based Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, and Harvard University show that sea surface temperatures reconstructed from climate archives vary to a much greater extent on long time scales than simulated by climate models.

And once in law, there is a great deal of flexibility — unlike scientists, lawyers usually do not have as much time and emotional investment in a career - long project, so if a certain situation is not right, lawyers can typically change jobs more easily than researchers.

This discovery will enable scientists to find ways of tweaking our immune response with much greater accuracy and precision than ever before.»

But those early temperatures are now a tool unto themselves, helping scientists tease out when humans might have started to warm Earth's climate — and suggesting that the warming may be greater than first thought.

But «the simple fact that each mission was providing a great scientific return didn't really impress very many people other than lunar scientists.»

In addition, the scientists observed that human beings suffering from insulin resistance and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease have a greater amount of active DPP4 in their blood than healthy people.

The combined effort of more than 50,000 online video game players may help scientists better understand how proteins fold, solving one of biochemistry's greatest conundrums

In the scientific world, a lot of lip service has lately been paid to the idea that great (and hirable) scientists are more than assemblages of first - author papers and R01 grants.

A simple colour changing test to help scientists investigate potential cancer drugs has been developed by University of Bath scientists, allowing research to progress at a much greater speed than has been possible until now.

The scientists prepared the molecules so that the temperature — judged by the probability of an atom's nucleus being found in a higher energy state — was greater for the hydrogen nucleus than for the carbon.

For years, many scientists leaned toward a large mass, greater than that of Saturn's moon Mimas, because of the opaque, dense appearance of Saturn's primary ring, the B ring.

Whereas scientists in big pharma previously expected to have secure jobs for life, Rees believes they now have no greater sense of job security than those in biotech.

For the multi-omic future that Snyder and others envision, scientists will need a greater ability to store and wrangle massive amounts of data than they possess today.

That's greater than the warming rate of either the ocean or the atmosphere, and it can have profound effects, the scientists say.

Scientifically speaking, the single greatest lesson Alex taught me, taught all of us, is that animal minds are a great deal more like human minds than the vast majority of behavioral scientists believed — or, more importantly, were even prepared to concede might be remotely possible.

Cheaper, and more efficient, gene editing technology that allows scientists to manipulate the human genome with greater ease and precision than ever before is forcing researchers to consider these questions quickly.

In a lecture on «creativity» on another occasion, Chandra quoted the great physicist Lord Rayleigh's response to Thomas Huxley's claim that «scientists over 60 do more harm than good».

Managers know that they will find a number of Ph.D. scientists who have the narrow technical skills they're looking for in specific opening, but they usually prefer to hire someone who has shown excellence in applying scientific skills rather than the Ph.D. who has a great depth of knowledge in a single technical area.

«Climatic changes are threatening highly prized native trout as introduced rainbow trout continue to expand their range and hybridize with native populations through climate - induced «windows of opportunity,» putting many populations and species at greater risk than previously thought,» said project leader and USGS scientist Clint Muhlfeld.

The amazing variety of human faces — far greater than that of most other animals — is the result of evolutionary pressure to make each of us unique and easily recognizable, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, scientists.

Scientists from more than 70 countries gathered at the 2011 Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau this summer to discuss the world's greatest health challenges and how to tackle them.

«Our findings show that terrorism shifts public attitudes towards greater loyalty to the in - group, less concern with fairness, and greater prejudice against Muslims and immigrants, but it seems that this effect is stronger on those who are politically left - leaning than those who are right - leaning,» explain psychological scientists from the Center for the Study of Group Processes at the University of Kent.

With fewer than one in five proposals to the National Institutes of Health winning funding these days, pressure on scientists to produce impressive results that will bring in grants or renewals has never been greater, making publication of a well - regarded article in a prestigious journal a coup for a rising researcher like Lin.

The instruments are providing scientists with a «shark's eye» view of the ocean and greater understanding than ever before of the lives of these fish in their natural environment.

More than 75 scientists and wildlife conservationists from around the world assisted the genetic analysis of 79 wild and captive - born great apes.

Those scientists who have gotten involved have found that the rewards of their actions have been far greater than they had imagined.

Historical novelist Naomi Mitchison, daughter and sister of the two great Haldane scientists, also sees part of the function of SF as warning: «Who better to bring the disasters which we are making for ourselves forcibly home to voters and opinion - makers than committed SF writers?»

Most Earth scientists agree that coming sea levels will rise at a greater pace than during the last 50 years

The scientists used an ordinal approach — a range of mathematical methods that address the question: «What would the consequences be if uncertainty is even greater than we think it is?»

The result, according to scientists, is that winter temperatures across the Great Plains and Midwest are now some 7º warmer than historical norms.