Sentences with phrase «in unexpected»

In Elkhorn Slough, south of Santa Cruz, otters have recolonized estuary habitat and appear to be thriving in unexpected ways, while boosting the health of eel grass and salt marsh ecosystems.

Two sculptors are uncovering beauty in unexpected places: one by forging the formulas of mathematics into metal constructions, one by weaving the structure of deadly viruses into delicate lace (opposite).

Michael Wessels and his colleagues at Harvard University and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston found that it does — but in an unexpected way.

But in an unexpected discovery, scientists have found one place where the effects of climate change are having the opposite impact.

CRISPR gene - drive technology is developing at a breakneck pace, and has the potential to dramatically alter ecosystems in unexpected ways.

Feedback has learnt from long observation that odd bits of data sometimes prove useful in unexpected ways, although too often their usefulness becomes evident only after they have been discarded.

«Brazil is most notably lauded for their deforestation reductions, but the report found numerous example of successfully saving forests in unexpected locations,» said Boucher.

Jackhammers, concerts and other common noisemakers may cause irreparable damage to our ears in unexpected ways

But a new study from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) suggests these changes are themselves shifting in unexpected ways, with potentially significant consequences for the ocean and climate.

Joung and his colleagues soon found that these scissors could get too slice - happy, cutting DNA in unexpected and unwanted locations.

«If they really behave in this unexpected way, it has consequences for not just the past of individual stars, but for the past of our whole galaxy.»

«We show that sexual selection causes speciation in an unexpected way,» she said.

Nobody of course has a way of harvesting this power directly, but an old - fashioned experiment with electrodes in a laboratory shows that huge quantities of potential power are being lost every day, in unexpected ways.

Other assets would cover broad spatial scales to address questions about species» range, migration routes, or presence in unexpected locations.

Bailey notes recent discoveries of far more complete fossil humans from South Africa, representing previously unknown members of the human family — Australopithecus sediba and Homo naledi — show evolution mixed and matched modern and archaic traits in unexpected ways in the past.

When the x-ray source sent out pulses as short as 80 millions of billionths of a second, the researchers could see the first short period of the crystal melting, which occurred in an unexpected way: The atoms diverged from their initial energy equilibrium while the average crystalline structure remained — a rarely studied behavior that could not have been seen as clearly with other techniques.

The fact that FOX01 behaves in this unexpected way could have to do with the specialized microenvironment of a cell in a wound, Graves noted.

At that point surface water in the area was flowing in an unexpected direction and disappearing down a moulin right in the spot Willis was looking at.

The 2016 MacArthur Fellows «are breaking new ground in areas of public concern, in the arts, and in the sciences, often in unexpected ways.

When engineered to glow green and injected into mice, these studies revealed glowing cells in unexpected organs such as the brain, heart and liver.

A compound that blocks iron - containing enzymes in the brain improves recovery following brain hemorrhage, a new study in rodents shows, and it works in an unexpected way.

She explained that when the plates have a complicated shape, and you apply some pressure from one side, the plates may flex in very irregular ways — bulging out in unexpected places, while remaining almost flat in others.

But observations made from multiple angles by three different craft revealed that comet Lovejoy's tail waggled and wobbled in unexpected ways (see video, from 0:20 onward) as the object zipped through the deepest parts of the solar atmosphere.

But oil may affect the complex Amazon ecosystem in unexpected ways, so that lessons learned in marine spills may not apply.

There have already been several instances in which the Navy has spent more than an extra $ 1 billion in unexpected fuel costs.

However, they also found that the more time grandmothers spent taking care of the grandchildren, the more they felt that their children had been more demanding of them, so maybe mood plays a role in the unexpected result.

But analysis of the data revealed something odd: the paths of certain pairs of particles flung out after the collisions seemed to be linked in unexpected ways.

Fluctuations in extreme weather events, such as heavy rains and droughts, are affecting ecosystems in unexpected ways — creating «winners and losers» among plant species that humans depend upon for food.

In an unexpected collision of astrophysics and algebra, it seems that this cosmic mirage can also be used to peer into the heart of pure mathematics.

After exposure to cell - stressing x-rays or chemotherapy drugs, young mice went gray in an unexpected way.

Concepts such as Witten's topological quantum - field theories, which had subsequently led to breakthroughs in pure mathematics, were now coming back to physics in unexpected places.

Rising ocean water temperatures and increasing levels of acidity — two symptoms of climate change — are imperiling sea creatures in unexpected ways: mussels are having trouble clinging to rocks, and the red rock shrimp's camouflage is being thwarted, according to presenters at the AAAS Pacific Division annual meeting at the University of San Diego in June.

«Data structures influence speed of quantum search in unexpected ways.»

In one session, groups such as Geoscientists Without Borders demonstrated how researchers can use their tools and training to benefit communities in unexpected ways.

The process by which a mother's diet during pregnancy can permanently affect her offspring's attributes, such as weight, could be strongly influenced by genetic variation in an unexpected part of the genome, according to research led by Queen Mary University of London (QMUL).

This shows them what research is really like — that data will not always confirm expectations and might lead in unexpected directions.

And ScienceInsider can report that politics may have played a larger role than has been previously reported in the unexpected results of the test of the experimental technique.

Fortunately, a bathroom scale can still aid in solving this problem (albeit in an unexpected way) by using a simpler equation.

Hints that the stuff might surround Earth come from observations of space probes, several of which changed their speeds in unexpected ways as they flew past Earth.

These new findings highlight that DNA is an incredibly powerful information storage device, which nature has fully exploited in unexpected ways.»

The study underlines how investigations into the basic biological function of a drug target can lead in unexpected directions.»

From isolated caves to ancient permafrost, antibiotic - resistant bacteria and genes for resistance have been showing up in unexpected places.

It is a product of all five senses (hearing included) interacting in unexpected ways, those sensory signals subject to gross revision as they are integrated by the brain into one complex, sometimes wonderful perception.

The biggest lungfish on record has been uncovered in an unexpected place — a drawer in the Nebraska State Museum in Lincoln.

Chitayat wonders whether proliferation could proceed in unexpected ways, for example leading to tumors — a worry that cuts across many stem cell therapies.

We first noted that in 1998, in the unexpected dimness of certain supernova explosions which told us they were further away than we expected.

Contrary to prevailing wisdom, large earthquakes can interact in unexpected ways.

It can also combine different musical styles in unexpected ways.

I told this story at a AAAS (the publisher of Science Careers) storytelling workshop recently, and afterward a man responded in an unexpected way.

But recently, scientists have spotted asteroids behaving and dying in unexpected ways: Some have tails, some break apart into chunks and others disintegrate into smears of dust, with no obvious second asteroid in sight.