Sentences with phrase «now hundreds of scientists»

In a field opened up by a handful of individuals who had taken a year or so off from their other work, now hundreds of scientists dedicated their careers, backed up by thousands of assistants and technicians.

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Feb. 13, 2013 — The greatest battle in Earth's history has been going on for hundreds of millions of years - it isn't over yet - and until now no one knew it existed, scientists reported Feb. 13 in the journal Nature.

Feb. 13, 2013 — The greatest battle in Earth's history has been going on for hundreds of millions of years — it isn't over yet — and until now no one knew it existed, scientists reported Feb. 13 in the journal Nature.

CLIMATE CHANGE Hundreds of scientists have moved beyond marching and are now hoping to storm Washington (and beyond) as politicians.

Although scientists now know how to make room - temperature skyrmions, the heat - tolerant swirls, tens to hundreds of nanometers in diameter, tend to be too big to be very useful.

So scientists can now use the so called gene chips to scan people's DNA for hundreds of thousands of genes and different variants of genes.

That's frustrating for people who have always been the best at everything and who now find themselves in competition with hundreds of similarly accomplished scientists.

With the advent of genome engineering, scientists are now introducing hundreds of different human mutations in other species to study their effects and develop new drugs.

The technique they used to pinpoint the pit — a laser take on radar — figures to help scientists find evidence of hundreds of similar impacts that have remained hidden until now.

AT RISK A poison dart frog (Dendrobates auratus) in Panama is just one of hundreds of amphibian species that succumbs to the chytrid skin fungus, which scientists now know has a special trick for disabling frog immune systems.

Now, scientists have developed an anode material that enables sodium - ion batteries to perform at high capacity over hundreds of cycles, according to their report in the journal ACS Nano.

Right now, planetary scientists are searching for hundreds of potentially threatening asteroids approaching Earth.

Now it is the object of a mammoth international modeling effort that is expected to occupy hundreds of scientists for 10 years at a cost of at least $ 100 million.

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.

The research field he invented, structural DNA nanotechnology, is now the subject of research by hundreds of scientists in over 50 laboratories around the world.

«We now know what genes were gained by enterococci hundreds of millions of years ago, when they became resistant to drying out, and to disinfectants and antibiotics that attack their cell walls,» study leader Michael S. Gilmore, a senior scientist at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and director of the Harvard Infectious Disease Institute, said in the statement.

Hundreds of HIV vaccine scientists attending the 2011 Aids Vaccine conference in Bangkok, Thailand have said the stage is now set to design a safe and effective vaccine.

Scientists can now identify microbes by their DNA, and they've discovered that microbial communities are far more diverse than anyone ever imagined, including tens or even hundreds of thousands of different microbial species, all interacting with one another.

We now have hundreds of members and a team of 10 including data scientists, writers and digital product experts.

Now, go take a look at the publications of any one of the hundreds scientists involved in recovering the Antarctic gas record.

In fact, the world's interconnected ocean as a whole is sliding into the Holocene Mass Extinction, the geological event that some scientists use to divide the boundary of the Holocene and the Anthropocene epoch, the one that's named after us — and that may still be visible in the Earth's geological record hundreds of millions of years from now, because species of fish, shellfish, crustaceans and other marine life, that were abundant on this planet for millions of years — suddenly, in less than the blink of a geologist's eye, vanished — for good.

There is also a doubt about the ability of scientists to accurately predict climate a hundred years from now.

Chu had cut his teeth as a research scientist at the justly famed U.S. government - funded Bell Labs, which he saw as a model because they were responsible for inventing or developing a range of devices now part of the fabric of American life, from fax machines to TV transmission, radio astronomy, solar panel cells, the transistor, calculators, cell phones, Wi - Fi, and hundreds of other technological miracles.

The show for EURONEWS» Space segment will feature expert scientists discussing the future of Earth and what's going to happen in a hundred, a thousand, or even one million years from now.

Swings of temperature that scientists in the 1950s believed to take tens of thousands of years, in the 1970s to take thousands of years, and in the 1980s to take hundreds of years, were now found to take only decades.

Do modern scientists really not know that evolution went from highly contentious to settled science because first tens, then hundreds, and now thousands of nontrivial predictions have turned out to be correct?

On Friday, an international panel of hundreds of scientists will issue its fifth (and perhaps final) comprehensive scientific assessment of what scientists now know about climate change.