Sentences with phrase «how early scientists»

However, there are plenty of science articles that are just interesting, reporting events and explorations in the Arctic and elsewhere that give a fascinating view into how early scientists were coming to an understanding about climate change and processes.

Not exact matches

When researchers out of Russia examined the sleep and wakefulness rhythms of 130 study subjects (by keeping the obliging participants up for a full 24 hours and quizzing them periodically about how they were feeling), the scientists found that some folks really didn't prefer early or late hours.
Scientists still know very little about how early embryos develop, due to their small size (the width of a hair) and inaccessibility in the womb.
But political scientists ought to be able to track how people voted over most of the month of October between heavy absentee voting and early voting.
Yes, religion has done some good along the way, and some of the earlier scientists were religious and even church - funded, but science has since been able to explain much of how the world works.
«The phrase «clean label» was unknown to consumers when we launched MicroGARD ®, which shows how early we saw the beauty in fermentation based ingredients,» said George Weber, Ph.D., senior principal scientist with DuPont Nutrition & Health, a co-inventor of MicroGARD ®.
«The phrase «clean label» was unknown to consumers when we launched MicroGARD ®, which shows how early we saw the beauty in fermentation based ingredients,» says George Weber, PhD, senior principal scientist with DuPont Nutrition & Health, a co-inventor of MicroGARD ®.
* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change
Scientists since the early 20th century have struggled with the question of how one set of physical laws governing objects above a certain size can co-exist alongside a different set of laws governing the atomic and subatomic scale.
«Scientists get early look at hurricane damage to Caribbean coral reefs: Storms act as an interesting «natural experiment» — a rare chance for researchers to study how corals recover from disasters.»
Scientists from the Universities of Bath, Oxford and Edinburgh have now identified one such non-coding RNA, called Paupar, which influences how healthy brains develop during early life.
Scanning back through complete publication lists (not the censored ones on scientists» own Web sites) shows just how frequently people change direction early in their scientific careers.
That is certainly how things seemed in the early 1900s, when scientists began studying how we come to be scared of things.
Part 1, Financial Planning for Scientists, introduced the series and the concept of «start early, save more;» and part 2 Start Saving Today, offered tips on how to control your spending today so that you can save for tomorrow.
An irony: amid all this highfalutin braggadocio of how close we are to computers taking over the world and emulating human thought, I had to give my talk on the «social singularity» (progress in political, economic and social systems over the past 10,000 years) early because Rice University computer scientist James McLurkin could not get his small swarm of robots to work.
Relevant to early - career scientists are sections on choosing an adviser and a dissertation committee; finishing the dissertation; preparing to succeed at an interview, job talk, or meeting presentation; what to expect from your mentor and committee and what to do if they fall short; how to create effective cover letters and CVs; what to focus on while working toward tenure; what to do if your English is not perfect; what errors to avoid in grant proposals; and much more.
Scientists discovered how the E. coli bacterium can survive in the human gut — earlier the question how they breathe was a mystery to experts.
The scientists now hope their study will open the door to further our understanding of the early universe and explain how space and time emerged.
That question was debated this week at the Society for Neuroscience's annual meeting, Neuroscience 2011, in Washington, D.C. Speakers — most of them scientists in secure careers — addressed large crowds of early - career scientists eager to learn how successful neuroscientists found their jobs and to hear their advice for those just starting out.
According to Michael Wong, a planetary scientist at the University of California in Berkeley, the overarching takeaway from these new images is how relatively blinkered most of our earlier views have been.
Scientists aren't sure how black holes grew so big so early.
The findings have scientists puzzling over how early black holes grew into the supermassive beasts they are today without a steady diet of gas, dust, stars, and other fodder.
How ocean sounds affect different marine species «is something we are only just beginning to understand,» says Greg Early, associate scientist with the Edgerton Research Lab.
In the early 1900s, the French scientists Charles Richet and Paul Portier were studying how toxins affect the body.
An unusual fossil find is giving scientists new ideas about how some of the earliest animals on Earth came to dominate the world's oceans.
The detailed, real - time wind measurements could help scientists to better understand how hurricanes form and provide information that meteorologists can use to pinpoint landfall earlier, giving people more time to prepare and evacuate.
And starting in August and continuing into September, Samantha Joye, a biogeochemist at the University of Georgia in Athens, and a group of scientists are tracking underwater plumes, retracing the steps of earlier studies to determine how the oil has been travelling in the water column.
How can early - career scientists help themselves?
One of the reasons scientists have been so interested in the argon ratio in Martian meteorites is that it was — before Curiosity — the best measure of how much atmosphere Mars has lost since the planet's earlier, wetter, warmer days billions of years ago.
Overall, comparing Vadasaurus's features with those of earlier and later pleurosaurs may provide scientists with insights about how evolution might have progressed among other, totally separate lineages of ancient creatures that also undertook the land - to - sea transition, including ichthyosaurs and mosasaurs, marine reptiles that swam the seas worldwide during large portions of the dinosaur era.
The moon is a bonanza for scientists, Kring says, because it offers crucial insights for understanding the origins and evolution of Earth and other planets: how they formed from the accretion and differentiation of smaller bodies; how they were bombarded by impacts early in their histories; and even how some of them migrated in their orbits around the sun.
Haak says this man's mitochondrial genome, especially if we find more like it, will help scientists develop a map of how early modern humans moved around Africa.
Princeton scientist — it's too early to admit defeat Michael Oppenheimer, a professor of geosciences and international affairs at Princeton University, said he also believes scientists have been clear about what sticking to 2 degrees will entail and how far nations are from getting there.
«Compared to conventional methods, such as fluorescent antibodies against certain surface proteins, we know how the cells will decide three cell generations earlier,» reports ICB scientist Dr. Felix Buggenthin, joint first author of the study together with Dr. Florian Büttner.
Scientists used models along with earlier findings from the MESSENGER mission to shed light on how certain types of comets influence the micrometeoroids that preferentially impact Mercury on the dawn side of the planet.
«Synapse discovery could lead to new treatments for Alzheimer's disease: Scientists have discovered how connections between brain cells are destroyed in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease.»
They then used the earlier observations of the changing abundances of the three pairs of predators and prey — leveraging data sets collected by other scientists — to show how the models would apply.
For example, how genetic programs affect the function of specific cell types, how they vary early or later in life and how dysfunction in these programs might contribute to disease, all of which could help scientists learn more about the fundamental workings of the brain.
A team of researchers led by UNSW Australia scientists has discovered how connections between brain cells are destroyed in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease — work that opens up a new avenue for research on possible treatments for the degenerative brain condition.
They built relationships and communicated a specific message about how the module could help early career scientists.
Now, molecular studies are giving scientists glimpses of the early days of stomata and how they have changed since then.
Salk scientists and colleagues have proposed new molecular criteria for judging just how close any line of laboratory - generated stem cells comes to mimicking embryonic cells seen in the very earliest stages of human development, known as naïve stem cells.
Now, when my own students and postdocs ask me how they can stand out among the many young scientists jockeying for position and positions, I tell them to learn from my early struggles, and to define their research brand identity.
To better understand the biology of this syndrome and the possibility for early treatment, scientists need to know how the brain of a person with Fragile X syndrome develops — starting with the first weeks in the womb.
The scientists have identified priority areas for future study, including how to optimize linkage of HIV - positive infants into early treatment, improve models for retention and adherence of children receiving antiretrovirals, and prioritize locally driven research questions and processes that engage end users throughout.
Earlier this week scientists studying fossilized teeth from a hadrosaur revealed how the duck - billed dinosaur chewed plants for food.
A study published April 7 in PNAS Online Early Edition describes how a team of scientists, including researchers from the University of California, Davis, showed that vapor losses to the walls of laboratory chambers can suppress the formation of secondary organic aerosol, which in turn has contributed to the underprediction of SOA in climate and air quality models.
Since the early 1990s, independent scientists in academic laboratories around the world have published hundreds of articles demonstrating how a broad selection of chemicals can interfere with the normal development of a baby at extremely low levels of exposure — in fact, levels similar to those experienced every day by people worldwide.
The scientists do not yet know how leaky gut relates to depression, although earlier work offers some hints.
LaFollette explores how scientists, journalists, and the conflicting goals of education and entertainment interacted to shape the content and format of science broadcasts from the rise of radio to the early days of television.
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