Sentences with phrase «new scientific understanding»

It also identified with new scientific understandings of how the brain controls vision and the essential role of the viewer in experiencing a painting.

This edition focuses on how PNNL uses supercomputers, computational science and mathematics to build new scientific understanding that could help address significant national challenges in energy, the environment, national security and fundamental science.

«This Center takes a critical next step — creating new scientific understanding about health, learning, and behavior in the early years of a child's life and using that understanding to help strengthen individual life outcomes and improve society in the process.»

Defenders of the agency say that power is necessary to keep up with new scientific understanding of pollution and health effects and to ensure that states, seen by many as more vulnerable to local influence and political pressure, are enforcing rules on their books to protect local and interstate waters.

The past decade has seen the emergence of important areas of new scientific understanding by which to define what we are witnessing:

► Updating international protocols to reflect new scientific understanding of the role of land in the climate system.

Also, «new scientific understanding of spray - applied fire - resistive materials had to be developed,» Sunder says.

Nor can religious communities justifiably resist the reinterpretation of basic doctrines that may be required if the power and freshness of their message is to grow in the soil of new scientific understandings.

In addition to new scientific understanding, the material integrity of the animals themselves began to shift, adversely affecting their accuracy.

Pope Pius» ban on abortion in 1869 was supposedly done in an effort to counteract the spread of contraception and also as a result of the new scientific understanding of when, where and how fertilization takes place.

Because central to this new scientific understanding of how soils function is the realization that it is fundamentally a biological function.