Sentences with phrase «like building scientists»

With demonstrations, props, pictures, and his house, Jay will leave newbies feeling like building scientists and established building - science - geeks feeling even smarter.

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Professor Zhu Chaodong, the Institute of Zoology's lead scientist in insect evolution studies at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, said it would be a «catastrophe» if billions of cockroaches were suddenly released into the environment — be it through human error or a natural disaster like an earthquake that damaged the building.

Parker (center, in blue sweater) has built relationships among competing scientists at PICI retreats like this one in St. Helena, Calif..

Parker (center, in blue sweater) has built relationships among competing scientists at PICI retreats like this one in St. Helena, Calif.Photograph by Winni Wintermeyer for Fortune Magazine

Political scientist Keith Brownsey of Mount Royal University argues the Liberals paid close attention to the many fumbles made by Harper's Tories on the energy file: failing to build solid relationships with First Nations, allowing environmental groups to seize the public - relations initiative, not asserting federal authority and handing provinces like B.C. and Quebec control of the political agenda, keeping Canada outside of the international consensus on climate change, and ignoring legitimate criticisms of the federal review process.

Science has that built - in quality of being self - correcting — some people find that frustrating (to them it seems like scientists keep changing their minds), but it is one of the fundamental strengths of science.

Like other young scientists who hear similar stories of building up a famous biotech company, my thoughts turned to doing the same.

Working with scientists at the University of Michigan and McGill University, Full went on to build Rhex (for robot hexapod), a giant mechanical roach that acts like a bread box bouncing on six pogo sticks.

Many of the folks who are involved in building the last round of nuclear weapons or even the first round of nuclear weapons are either passing away or retiring or otherwise their knowledge is becoming inaccessible; and of course there are records, but there is, as many physicists who I interviewed said, «There is nothing like learning by doing and if we want to maintain the ability to build nuclear weapons for the indefinite future, then some argue that we need to continue to build them to train up this next generation of potential nuclear weapon scientists.»

These are exactly the types of grains scientists think are the building blocks for planets like Earth.

German and Canadian scientists have built a three dimensional map of the human brain to help in the development of new treatments for neurological disorders like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.

But like others, Venter told the commission in oral testimony today that synthetic biology is «very different from what's happened before» because scientists can now build genomes from digital information and a DNA synthesizer.

The building specially built for their construction is impressively large but mostly empty, save for half a dozen crates and a circular crane that hangs from the roof like a vast yellow spider, as it has been since 2012 when New Scientist last visited.

«There's this building of knowledge that helps you understand the capabilities of a country like North Korea,» says Delaine Reiter, a geophysicist with Weston Geophysical Corp. in Lexington, Mass. «They're not shy about broadcasting their testing, but they claim things Western scientists aren't sure about.

«For more than a decade, scientists and engineers have been trying to replicate this process and build these devices that can color match, color change, and camouflage just like the cephalopods, but many of them come nowhere near the speed or dynamic range of color that the animals can display,» Deravi said.

Much like the giraffe's home, we must question whether the establishment that was built in the interest of pioneering scientists is one that fosters a mutual advantage for the diverse community that it serves.

William Harris, a neuroscientist at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, adds in an e-mail that through studies like this one, scientists «can learn to understand weird inputs,» which is critical to building technologies like bionic hands.

Scientists built miniature devices to measure avian head movement, brain electrical activity and GPS location, and they attached them — almost like hats and backpacks — to great frigatebirds of the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador.

Like kids building sandcastles below the tideline on the beach, scientists will let the walls of water crash on dikes of different designs and other structures — sometimes until they're destroyed.

Some computer scientists think that by letting chips build themselves, the chips will turn out to be stunninglyefficient, complex, effective, and weird — kind of like our brains.

The scientists built the ovaries by printing various patterns of overlapping gelatin filaments on glass slides — like building with Lincoln Logs, but on a miniature scale: Each scaffold measured just 15 by 15 millimeters.

«It's kind of like playing 20 questions, building an ontology to find either optimism or pessimism,» says Tim Musgrove, the chief scientist who designed the broader system, which has been dubbed a «slant engine».

While it is refreshing to see a great scientist like Bohr being passionate about literature and philosophy, such an education evidently did little in itself to build a moral framework.

Now, scientists say it looks like the black holes build their own galaxies.

Like kids building sandcastles below the tideline on the beach, scientists will let the walls of water travel along the flume and crash onto whatever researchers have built at the other end — which could include a novel type of dike, an artificial sand dune or gravel beach, or a pylon used to hold up an offshore wind turbine.

By studying flows in systems like sand and sheep, scientists hope to find strategies for designing buildings to prevent dangerous human crowd situations, like stampedes.

«It's like committing suicide by stabbing yourself, shooting yourself and jumping off a building all at the same time,» said Northwestern scientist and lead study author Marcus Peter.

Although scientists have stopped short of saying the collapse in the east is inevitable, evidence is building that the world could be headed toward something like the Pliocene Epoch 5.3 million years ago, when sea levels were as much as 40 meters higher.

Mission scientists speculate that perhaps methane in the atmosphere on Pluto behaves like water in the air on Earth, building up on the ground as frost at the highest (and coldest) elevations.

Harvard computer scientist Radhika Nagpal and her colleagues in the TERMES Project are making artificial termites that can, like their natural counterparts, build structures much bigger than themselves.

Every year, the government gives scientists money that they use for amazingly cool things, like building robots that dive to extreme underwater depth and record video like this.

HFSP awardees are brought together in an annual meeting to help build a global network of like - minded scientists working on a broad range of subjects within the life sciences and to stimulate new collaborations.

Using bundled strands of DNA to build Tinkertoy - like tetrahedral cages, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have devised a way to trap and arrange nanoparticles in a way that mimics the crystalline structure of diamond.

Using bundled strands of DNA to build Tinkertoy - like tetrahedral cages, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have devised a way to trap and arrange nanoparticles in a way that mimics...

More Efficient, Effective Approach to Stem Cell Creation Dr. Ding's approach is one of a kind, but his work builds on a revolutionary discovery by another Gladstone scientist — Nobel Laureate Shinya Yamanaka, MD, PhD, who in 2007 revealed a process for transforming adult skin cells into cells that look and act like embryonic stem cells.

Scientists have found that the charged particles in graphene behave like a relativistic fluid, meaning graphene - based chips could now be used to model black holes and supernovas or build highly efficient devices that turn heat into electricity.

Nanoscientists, like other scientists, naturally make progress by building on the previous work of colleagues.

It builds trust among the public when it comes to the scientific field and for us scientists, it is quite obvious — everyone likes to have their work acknowledged.

While many people think it's pretty cool to see images of features like ice mountains on the most mysterious planet (even if it is a dwarf) in our solar system, imagine the excitement of the scientists that have made a career of studying Pluto having never seen it; or the engineers that built and programmed the craft, the instruments, and the flight path that had New Horizons travel the length of our solar system for nearly a decade.

Founded by a small international group of academic scientists, we aim to build a new class of optical telescope powerful enough to see continents on exoplanets like Proxima b.

We have therefore built a highly collaborative team in which basic scientists — focused on unraveling the fundamentals of disease mechanisms — interact fluidly with physician - scientists like myself, who bring the critical patient perspective to our research.

He discusses the ranchers who lived on it before the Manhattan Project took over, the buildings used by the scientists, and what it was like to live on the site before and during the war.

After carefully analyzing the tapes, the scientists were able to build a robot that moved on artificial slime like a slug moves on real slime.

By «smashing» proteins and looking at the broken bits, scientists at Rutgers University say they've discovered four basic building blocks that can be stacked like Legos to build all kinds of different proteins.

«For ectomorphs, I like to work on heavier weight - based training to build muscle,» says exercise scientist, herablist and health coach Angela Jackson.

Researchers such as William Kelley, George Atson, and Roger Williams had built upon the work of scientists and clinicians of an earlier era: men like Weston Price, Francis Pottenger, and Royal Lee.

► Lightning strikes a lighthouse and we see a close - up of gel spreading and becoming larger at the base of the building where a small fire burns briefly; a wall of gel rises like a curtain from a jungle forest into the sky, making noises like muttering and muffled roars as we hear that the phenomenon is spreading and destroying all species on Earth; five scientists armed with military rifles enter the area to find trees that have become covered with flowers, woody plants have grown into human shapes covered with blossoms, the bodies of three missing soldiers have been engulfed with vines, moss, and lichens that have grown out of the bodies and the head of a soldier is found in a path (we see no blood or facial expression).

Like any evil scientist would, you build a machine that harnesses the power of mother nature and take your anger and frustration out on the world.

Remind students that the games are all built on real - life science, and that the game - play allows them to think and act like scientists.

Harry's mission: survive until the decontamination of the building is complete, hoard coins like his life depended on it, and protect the scientists at all costs.