Sentences with phrase «hundreds of scientists from»

Assessments of climate change by the IPCC, drawing on the work of hundreds of scientists from all over the world, enable policymakers at all levels of government to take sound, evidence - based decisions.
Hundreds of scientists from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS - III) collaborated to make the largest - ever, three - dimensional map of distant galaxies.
Now in its 25th year, the report pulls together hundreds of scientists from dozens of countries to piece together the changes from the previous year in all aspects of the Earth's climate — from carbon dioxide levels to the planet's rising temperature, from glacier melt to change in soil moisture — and puts them in the context of decades - long trends.
Planned for launch by 2025, the mission is being financed in part by European partners and involves hundreds of scientists from 20 countries.
Launched in 2010, GRiSP represents for the first time a single strategic work plan for global rice research, bringing together hundreds of scientists from across the world.

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At The Data Incubator, we've spoken to hundreds of companies looking to hire data scientists from our training program.
Scientists are working on emergency interventions and they've been shown to be effective — bringing corals that took hundreds of years to grow back from the brink in just a few years.
2 He suggested that scientists are moving away from a mechanistic model of the universe which has dominated their thinking for more than two hundred years.
Yes, I like thousands of highly credentialed scientists from the world's leading academic and scientific institutions who have written dozens, if not hundreds of books casting doubt on Evolutionary Theory, I do have our doubts about evolutionary theory and Darwinism.
Whereas scientists generally agree that there are anywhere from four to nine basic tastes, there are thousands upon thousands of distinct aromas, only a single molecule of which you need to light up one or more of our hundreds of olfactory receptors.
The climate change risk assessment is the result of more than three years of work, involving hundreds of leading scientists, and experts from both the public and private sectors.
To better understand how frogs evolved, scientists created a new phylogenetic tree — a branching diagram of evolutionary relationships — using data from hundreds of frog genomes.
Libbrecht still does his fair share of work on massive - scale science: He also works on the LIGO project, in which a few hundred scientists are studying gravitational - wave signals from supernovae and black holes.
Scientists predict the boundary layer — a mix of original peak ring materials, tsunami deposits and melted rocks that fell from the sky — should span hundreds of feet.
Hundreds of people marched from the Angel of Independence to the Zocalo this afternoon, chanting «More scientists, fewer politicians» and «Grants yes, cuts no.»
For over one hundred years, scientists have debated the question of the origins of the lymphatic system — a parallel system to the blood vessels that serves as a conduit for everything from immune cells to fat molecules to cancer cells.
Scientists have drilled into one of the most isolated depths in all of the world's oceans: a hidden shore of Antarctica that sits under 740 meters of ice, hundreds of kilometers in from the sea edge of a major Antarctic ice shelf.
But curbing those substances, scientists and activists say, could slow atmospheric warming 0.5 degrees Celsius by 2050 while also increasing crop yields and preventing hundreds of thousands of related deaths from respiratory and cardiovascular diseases.
This new technique will allow scientists to derive useful information from and compare the hundreds of thousands of data sets obtained using legacy equipment as well as data sets obtained from biological samples preserved in paraffin blocks and partially - degraded samples.
From Borneo to Brazil, Colombia to Congo, and Israel to India, more than a hundred scientists joined this ambitious effort to find some of the most elusive animals on Earth.
Inside, hundreds of scientists in white coats are sitting in front of a huge screen that shows live images from the particle collisions of CERN's accelerator.
With hundreds of years of anthropological data from sites around the world yet to be digitized, scientists are just beginning to tap the potential of archaeology - based modeling.
Living plant tissue from hundreds of thousands of years ago might also be revived, helping scientists to understand the lost ecologies
The audience agrees: Last year's extravaganza garnered hundreds of submissions from scientists and non-scientists alike, and drew 5,000 spectators to screenings at area bars, universities, museums, and cinemas.
Scientists have long known that nitrate - loaded fertilizers run off from farms and city streets into bodies of water, sometimes creating giant «dead zones» hundreds of miles downstream.
But what if scientists could prevent the brain from rousing itself hundreds of times per night in response to rising CO2 levels, while allowing it to reestablish regular respiration again?
A group of social scientists from the USA, Australia, UK, and Chile, led by Prof. Cinner, have pooled their experience, and lessons from hundreds of research and development projects, to highlight five keys ways to build up the adaptive capacity of people living in the coastal tropics.
A new analysis by geophysicist Steven Ward and planetary scientist Erik Asphaug of the University of California, Santa Cruz, concludes that the biggest tsunami hazard arises from asteroids between 30 and a few hundred meters across, which may strike the ocean every 1000 to 100,000 years.
Nearly two miles deep in the ocean, a hundred miles off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, scientists during two cruises a year apart used subsea vehicles to explore the Dorado Outcrop, a rocky patch of sea floor made of cooled and hardened lava from an underwater volcano.
In the past several decades, scientists have discovered that the North — South distributions of certain plants often result from a single jump across the tropics, not as a result of gradual movements or events that occurred over a hundred million years ago.
«[T] he high seas provide a range of ecosystem services, from driving weather systems and modulating the climate to the production of a high percentage of the oxygen we breathe,» states a letter signed by hundreds of marine scientists, including conservation icon Sylvia Earle, in support of the Law of the Sea approach.
Each second, the AMS will encounter 25,000 cosmic rays — high - speed atomic and subatomic particles (some from the sun, some from deep space), the most energetic of which pack hundreds of times as much energy as anything a scientist can whip up in an Earth - based particle accelerator.
And it doesn't exclude scientists who work at institutions that can't afford journal subscriptions, which range from hundreds to tens of thousands of dollars.
Currently, scientists can use computer programs to design proteins that meet certain parameters, such as the ability to bind to certain molecules, but DropSynth could offer researchers hundreds or even thousands of options from which to choose the proteins that best fit their needs.
To find such a gene, scientists at deCODE genetics in Iceland compared DNA blueprints from hundreds of tremor patients and thousands of unafflicted residents.
For the first time a team of scientists around Prof. Immanuel Bloch (Director at MPQ und Chair of Experimental Physics at the LMU), in cooperation with theorists from Dresden, have succeeded in generating incompressible magnetic quantum crystals containing several hundred rubidium atoms.
Brent Hendrixson, study co-author and chairman of the Department of Biology at Millsaps College in Mississippi, set up a Web page that allowed citizen - scientists to send the researchers hundreds of specimens from locations across the U.S., including some where tarantulas had never been collected before, Hamilton said.
An international team of hundreds of scientists photographed more than 18,000 humpback whale tails, or flukes, from Alaska to Guatemala and from the Philippines to Russia.
After counting up tree species from 1170 research sites studied by hundreds of scientists, a team extrapolated the number likely to exist across the entire region.
Scientists have buried beads of optical sensors under almost a mile of ice, where it is dark and clear enough to detect the blue light of a neutrino - induced particle shower even from hundreds of feet away.
In a new study, published in Global Change Biology, scientists from the Universities of Bristol, James Cook University, and Melbourne University in Australia tested the response of the tropical rainforest fly Drosophila birchii to a changing climate by transplanting flies in hundreds of cages along mountain gradients in north - eastern Australia, and measuring their reproductive success at different elevations.
Scientists have imaged living cells with microscopes for hundreds of years, but the sharpest views have come from cells isolated on glass slides.
Some scientists have criticized TCGA for focusing on gene sequencing while diverting funds from functional studies that can determine which of the hundreds of mutations are most important.
On flyby day, the world waited anxiously for news from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., where hundreds of scientists and journalists had gathered for the planet party of the decade (SN Online: 7/15/15).
LINDAU, Germany — A 93 - year - old Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine received a standing ovation from hundreds of scientists on June 30 at the end of a speech in which he urged the world's young people to take measures to control runaway population growth in order to resolve related ills that have resulted from humans» remarkable evolutionary success as a species.
Among the hundreds of colonies that grew from these cells, the scientists found that a handful had markers for pluripotency.
For more than 30 years, the lecture series has attracted hundreds of science enthusiasts ranging from high school students to retirees, who climb out of bed early on cold winter mornings to hear lectures from top scientists from Princeton University and around the country.
Observatories will allow scientists to adjust their experiments and talk to their instruments from hundreds of miles away in shore - based laboratories.
LIGO has turned out to be the largest ever facility funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF), costing many hundreds of millions of dollars and involving over 1000 scientists from across the globe.
In one fell swoop, scientists have increased from dozens to hundreds the number of known genes that control crucial steps in the development of many organisms from fruit flies to humans.
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