Sentences with phrase «larger than scientists»

Those images suggest that the asteroid, which is classified as «potentially hazardous» because of its size and orbital trajectory, is actually a half mile larger than scientists had previously realized.

And a first quick look indicates that our home galaxy is larger than scientists had thought before, says Gisella Clementini, an astronomer at the Astronomical Observatory of Bologna in Italy.

Not exact matches

In a large review of studies published in the Journal of Nutrition, Purdue University scientists found that whole tree nuts and peanuts have roughly 15 % fewer calories than the figure calculated using the Atwater method.

In contrast to these larger than life themes, Elizabeth and her fellow scientist Charlie Holloway (Logan Marshall - Green) demonstrate a personal love for each other.

A large part of the difference between scientists and the general population may be due more to religious upbringing, rather than scientific training or university pressure to be irreligious, although these other possibilities should be further explored.»

Our Sun is one star out of about 200 billion stars that make up our Milkyway Galaxy which is no more or less special than any other galaxy scientists have discovered hurling through a vast unimaginably large expanse of space that we call the Universe (which is about 99 % empty space by the way).

The largest bodies were Baptists (in several national or regional conventions, some of them Negro, for the majority of such Negroes as became Christians were Baptists), Methodists (in more than one ecclesiastical structure, some of them also Negro), the Disciples of Christ (of American origin), the Church of Latter Day Saints of Jesus Christ (Mormons, also sprung from the soil), Christian Scientists (likewise indigenous), and the Seventh Day Adventists (born in the United States).

The largest Nation in existence at its time Rome, the very same that put him to the cross later Bowed to him... Thousands witnessed his Miracles and converted on the spot... and this is all recorded historically... unlike many religions around the globe, this was witnessed and recorded... yet you refuse to believe it... But you are so quick to jump on the bandwagon and believe what a scientist postulated... a theory that requires as much if not more faith to believe in than Any religion... A theory that if you believe... you must throw out the natural laws of Physics...... But you call me stupid for believing in God... Wow... My bad i guess i should believe in Magical particles that always existed that randomly exploded and caused everything to exist....

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.

Scientists hope to learn whether arachnophobes» perception of spiders as larger than actual size causes their fear — or whether it is the fearfulness itself that causes their visual misperception.

This large sample allowed the scientists to derive the most accurate high - mass segment of the IMF to date, and to show that massive stars are much more abundant than previously thought.

But in a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found evidence that these large SOD1 fibrils protect rather than harm neurons.

A large area of the Greenland ice sheet once considered stable is actually shedding massive amounts of ice, suggesting that future sea - level rise may be worse than expected, a team of scientists warned yesterday in a new study.

Although networking opportunities with other scientists might be fewer in large pharmaceutical companies than they are in academia, the opportunity to publish postdoctoral research results is offered by some, but not all pharmaceutical companies.

More than 9,000 delegates from across the globe attended the WCLC, one of the largest international gatherings of clinicians and scientists in the field of lung cancer and thoracic malignancies.

Some scientists mistakenly believe that start - up biotechnology employers have fewer political players than academic labs or larger corporations; I can tell you this isn't true.

However, in the largest study of its kind so far, scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg have now shown that the risk of death from heart disease in breast cancer patients following radiotherapy or chemotherapy is no higher than it is among the average population.

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.

In the largest study of its kind, people who ate a daily handful of nuts were 20 percent less likely to die from any cause over a 30 - year period than were those who didn't consume nuts, say scientists from Dana - Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and the Harvard School of Public Health.

The researchers now think that cyanobacteria played a larger role than previously believed in creating phosphorites in shallow waters, thereby allowing today's scientists a unique window into ancient ecosystems.

Scientists already knew that Jupiter sported an aurora in its northern hemisphere — one that is permanent, large enough to swallow Earth, and hundreds of times brighter than the ephemeral glows our planet hosts at each pole.

With this map of genetic variation in hand, the scientists could then estimate how big the population of passenger pigeons once was — typically, a small population will have less genetic variation than a larger one because it derives from a smaller pool of ancestors who bred successfully.

For more than 30 years, scientists, conservationists, and policymakers attempting to restore and protect the large wild canids that once roamed North America have pondered that question.

Modern cosmology depends so thoroughly on Einsteinian notions of curved space - time, the large - scale homogeneity of matter, and the equivalence of all reference frames that many scientists forget that these ideas were radical speculations less than a century ago.

In a March report in Geophysical Research Letters scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) describe how large waves can penetrate more deeply into ice cover and break it up faster and more completely than anyone had suspected.

Scientists transplanted the mechanism to E. coli, which is easier to control, eats only sugar, reproduces faster and can produce bisabolene in much larger quantities than A. grandis.

AAAS counts more than 143,000 individual scientists, engineers, science educators, policy makers, journalists, and interested citizens among its members, making it the largest general scientific organization in the world.

Scientists think that mitochondria were once independent single - celled organisms until, more than a billion years ago, they were swallowed by larger cells.

Among the study's more surprising findings: Butterflies are more closely related to small moths than to large ones, which completely changes scientists» understanding of how butterflies evolved.

Scientists are finding that, in general, larger ocean organisms such as fishes have less tolerance for temperature change than the microorganisms they consume, such as phytoplankton.

«Verification of Rotation in Tornadoes EXperiment2 is the largest and most ambitious attempt to study tornadoes in history and will involve more than 50 scientists and 40 research vehicles, including 10 mobile radars,» says the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a sponsor along with the National Science Foundation and some nonprofit groups.

«Most surprising is that the blast wave was still strong enough to cause significant effects in the atmosphere of Saturn, which is nearly a billion miles from the sun and has a magnetic field much larger than Earth's,» says Ed Stone of Caltech, chief scientist of NASA's Voyager program.

Standard ground - based telescopes can only pick out the brightest of them, which are the largest, and until now none of the objects discovered there has been less than 100 kilometres across (New Scientist, Science, 14 January).

Greenland is more than twice as large as Texas and if the entire ice sheet melted, scientists estimate global sea levels would rise roughly 24 feet.

The larger species in the study tended to flow in a consistent direction, suggesting that more species may have specialized biology for seasonal migrations than scientists realized, says study coauthor Jason Chapman, now at the University of Exeter in Penryn, England.

Courses often cover legal issues, like how to handle research involving human subjects, rather than examining how funding may influence scientists or how cutting - edge research such as genetic engineering may affect society at large.

Scientists have cooked up a chemical concoction that can patch a 9 - millimeter - wide hole in a sheet of plastic, a self - repair orders of magnitude larger than ever demonstrated before.

The Humboldt Foundation, Germany's largest agency that provides financial support for foreign students, funded German - based fellowships for more than 2000 scientists from other countries in the past year alone.

For example, the scientists suggest that the technique could be used to visualize myelin, the lipid layer that wraps neurons and guarantees fast transmission of electrical signals, because it has a larger refractive index than the neurons it surrounds.

The 2015 Antarctic ozone hole area was larger and formed later than in recent years, said scientists from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

The scientist tested their set - up using frozen human skin cells, segments of pig heart tissue, and sections of pig arteries in volumes almost 20 times larger than previously attempted samples.

Judging from fossil remains, scientists say the Boskops were similar to modern humans but had small, childlike faces and huge melon heads that held brains about 30 percent larger than our own.

The gap was large: A black scientist's chance of winning NIH funding was 10 percentage points lower than that of a white scientist.

On the largest of scales, scientists feel they are closer than ever before to understanding how the universe began and how it will end (page 36).

And a first quick look indicates that our home galaxy is larger in extent than scientists had thought before, says Gisella Clementini, an astronomer at the Astronomical Observatory of Bologna in Italy.

More and larger skin tumors sprouted in animals lacking HSF1 than in controls, the scientists report in the 21 September issue of Cell.

Further, it alerts scientists that earthquake clustering may not only characterise shallow faulting and smaller - sized earthquakes with magnitudes lower than M7 but it is a property of large subduction earthquakes.

The scientists found no new objects, ruling out the existence of any vulcanoids larger than about 6 kilometers, which is less than half the mean diameter of the little martian moon Deimos.

Harris cited other examples of concern — a review of 100 studies in the field of psychology in which the findings in only about a third of the studies were reproducible; an effort by scientists at Bayer, another large drug company, that managed to reproduce the findings of only one - quarter of the studies under review; a just - published review of 25 historical candidate genes for schizophrenia which found no evidence that the candidate genes are more associated with the disease than other genes.

But until now, the best they had come up with for more than three players was a procedure created in 1995 by political scientist Steven Brams of New York University and mathematician Alan Taylor of Union College in Schenectady, New York, which is guaranteed to produce an envy - free division, but it is «unbounded,» meaning that it might need to run for a million steps, or a billion, or any large number, depending on the players» cake preferences.