The ongoing heat wave dominating a large swath of Europe is being exacerbated by climate change, according to a new analysis by a team
of international scientists using both observational data and climate models.
The ongoing heat wave dominating a large swath of Europe is being exacerbated by climate change, according to a new analysis by a team
of international scientists using both observational data and climate models.
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Forward - thinking
scientists, many with funding from PETA and its
international affiliates, are developing methods for studying diseases and testing products that don't require the
use of animals and are actually relevant to human health.
«If the Senate bill in its final form does not allow companies to
use international offsets to achieve their targets, then the U.S. as a source
of funding for REDD would die,» said Daniel Nepstad, a senior
scientist with the Woods Hole Research Center, which is a member
of Hurowitz's Tropical Forest and Climate Coalition, meaning other countries might have to fill that gap with their own funding and offset needs.
«The ice cores obtained through
international collaborations were critical to the success
of this study in that they allowed us to develop records from parts
of Antarctica not often visited by U.S. - based
scientists,» said co-author Tom Neumann
of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, who participated in a Norway - U.S. traverse that collected several
of the cores
used in this study.
Following up on the discovery, an
international team
of scientists led by the Swiss astronomer Vincent Bourrier from the Observatoire de l'Université de Genève,
used the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) on the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope to study the amount
of ultraviolet radiation received by the individual planets
of the system.
An
international team
of scientists using X-rays has now solved this mystery and established that these frogs are
using their mouth cavity and tissue to transmit sound to their inner ears.
An
international team
of scientists has
used the fossil record during the past 23 million years to predict which marine animals and ecosystems are at greatest risk
of extinction from human impact.
An
international team
of scientists from Singapore, Thailand, China and Australia has cracked the genetic code
of the liver fluke parasite, Opisthorchis viverrini,
using a unique DNA analysis technique developed at A * STAR's Genome Institute
of Singapore (GIS).
Using an innovative crystallization technique for studying three - dimensional structures
of gene transcription machinery, an
international team
of researchers, led by
scientists at Penn State, has revealed new insights into the long debated action
of the «magic spot» — a molecule that controls gene expression in Eschericahia coli and many other bacteria when the bacteria are stressed.
A group
of European
scientists has founded an
international association to discuss and provide guidance on the ethical
use of genome editing, a technique with the potential to transform everything from food production and human health to science itself.
«Until now
scientists have preferred to
use a reliable method, Sample Entropy (sampEn), which, however, suffers several limitations,» explains Moses Sokunbi, research
scientist at the
International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste and first author
of the study.
The volunteers,
using a total
of 200,000 computers, were assigned potential primes to test as part
of an
international project started by American computer
scientist George Woltman in 1996.
The challenge, which was announced at an asteroid initiative industry and partner day at NASA Headquarters in Washington, is a large - scale effort that will
use multi-disciplinary collaborations and a variety
of partnerships with other government agencies,
international partners, industry, academia, and citizen
scientists.
An
international team
of scientists led by Newcastle University, UK, and funded by the US Office
of Naval Research, have shown for the first time that barnacle larvae release an oily droplet to clear the water from surfaces before sticking down
using a phosphoprotein adhesive.
Although there's little that
scientists and wildlife managers working in Gorongosa can do to eliminate the threats that any one bird might face outside the protections
of the park, the information they gather can be
used to inform
international agreements around the availability
of toxins and other hazards.
International research involving a Monash University
scientist is
using new computer models and evidence from meteorites to show that a low - mass supernova triggered the formation
of our solar system.
The
international team
of scientists from University College London, IRBM Promidis, University
of British Columbia, and CHDI Foundation developed a new ultra-sensitive test
using the Singulex SMC Technology Erenna Immunoassay system that is able to detect mutant huntingtin in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)
of HD patients, including some who carry the HD mutation but have not yet developed symptoms.
These samples will be the property
of humanity, with sustainable
international governance ensuring their preservation as well as their exceptional and appropriate
use, in order to enable future generations
of scientists to carry out unprecedented analyses.
While his new study makes no
use of the huge computer models commonly
used by
scientists to estimate the magnitude
of future climate change, Lovejoy's findings effectively complement those
of the
International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), he says.
Shocks caused by climate and seasonal change could be
used to aid recovery
of some
of the world's badly - degraded coral reefs, an
international team
of scientists has proposed.
Using a «peel - and - stick» technique, an
international team
of scientists made PLEDs just two microns thick — several times thinner than plastic kitchen wrap.
An
international consortium
of scientists that was recently assembled to review the science on BPA for the German UmweltBundesAmt (that country's equivalent
of the Environmental Protection Agency) determined that the research FDA
used in its safety assessment was flawed because it failed to consider the chemical's effects on behavior and prostate development, according to a copy
of the group's conclusions provided to ScientificAmerican.com.
A new scientific paper by a University
of Maryland - led
international team
of distinguished
scientists, including five members
of the National Academies, argues that there are critical two - way feedbacks missing from current climate models that are
used to inform environmental, climate, and economic policies.
An
international team
of scientists used an X-ray laser at the Department
of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to determine the structure
of an insect virus's crystalline protein «cocoon.»
«Now,
using a genetic approach, researchers at the University
of Leicester undertaking the study on behalf
of an
international consortium
of scientists (the CADIoGRAM + C4D consortium) have shown that the association between shorter height and higher risk
of coronary heart disease is a primary relationship and is not due to confounding factors.»
A space
scientist at the University
of Leicester, in collaboration with the New Zealand Defence Technology Agency and DMC
International Imaging, has been trialling a concept for
using satellite imagery to significantly improve the chances
of locating ships and planes, such as the missing Malaysian flight MH370, lost at sea.
In a study set to come out in Nature tomorrow, an
international group
of scientists reports that they simulated atmospheric behavior
using several different models and
used them to forecast anthropogenically driven changes in average annual rainfall at different latitudes from 1925 to 1999.
The
scientists used the latest ensemble
of climate models, prepared for the 5th assessement report
of the
International Panel on Climate Change.
In a series
of five papers covering the rover's top discoveries during its first three months on Mars that appear today in the journal Science, Los Alamos researchers
using the rover's ChemCam instrument team up with an
international cadre
of scientists affiliated with the CheMin, APXS, and SAM instruments to describe the planet's seemingly once - volcanic and aquatic history.
Now, a team
of scientists of the University
of Cambridge, the UK Met Office and CIMMYT (
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre) have adapted modelling systems previously
used to forecast, ash dispersal from erupting volcanoes and radiation from nuclear accidents (NAME), to predict when and how Ug99 and other such strains are most likely to spread.
An
international team
of scientists working with Prof. Pfeifer, under the leadership
of the University
of Bonn, with colleagues from San Diego and Bethesda (both USA), Gothenburg (Sweden) and the Universities
of Heidelberg and Leipzig, has discovered a «switch» in the fat cells
of mice which can be
used to accelerate fat burning.
Instead, she was a «rotator,» on leave from SRI
International, a nonprofit research institute in Menlo Park, California, under a program that NSF
uses far more than any other federal research agency (see Part 1, «NSF Urged to Improve Oversight
of Program for
Scientists on Loan»).
Using molecular breeding, Ronald and Dave Mackill, a crop
scientist at the
International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines, have done just that, developing multiple strains
of rice that can survive for more than two weeks in flooded conditions.
An
international team, including
scientists from Arizona State University, the University
of Milwaukee - Madison (UMW), and Germany's Deutsches Elektronen - Synchrotron (DESY), have caught a light sensitive biomolecule at work
using an X-ray laser.
But new research from an
international team
of scientists has found that the antibodies
used to measure levels
of irisin in blood were poorly vetted and nonspecific.
Because
international terrorists have made it clear they plan to
use every possible weapon against their chosen enemies, nations» military and intelligence authorities are now more eager than ever to enlist the talents
of scientists and engineers to counter these threats.
Using data from the GPS stations, an accelerometer that measures ground motion in Kathmandu, data from seismological stations around the world, and radar images collected by orbiting satellites, an
international team
of scientists led by Caltech has pieced together the first complete account
of what physically happened during the Gorkha earthquake — a picture that explains how the large earthquake wound up leaving the majority
of low - story buildings unscathed while devastating some treasured taller structures.
In a stunning technical feat, an
international team
of scientists has sequenced the genome
of an archaic Siberian girl 31 times over,
using a new method that amplifies single strands
of DNA.
Using a novel approach,
scientists at the
International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC - WHO) showed that three different measurements
of body size, BMI, waist circumference, and waist to hip ratio all predicted similar obesity - related cancer risk in older adults.
A group
of research
scientists from the
International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste
used a simulation model that is far more accurate than previously
used, and carried out an experiment to test a hypothesis about the behaviour
of hydrogen that is splitting the scientific community.
An
international team
of scientists has discovered the presence
of metal in the ink
of two Herculaneum papyrus fragments proving that metals were
used in ink several centuries earlier than previously believed.
Published today in the journal Science, the study reveals how an
international team
of scientists used a state -
of - the - art technique called uranium - thorium dating to fix the age
of the paintings as more than 64,000 years.
For example, as a result
of its open access policy, India's Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope significantly increased the country's exposure to top
international scientists who sought to
use the telescope — thereby raising the number
of international collaborations, boosting cross-pollination
of ideas, and so forth.
A committee
of international scientists of the RICE program will review the applications
using the criteria following criteria:
Kamuela, Hawaii — An
international team
of scientists using the most powerful telescope on Earth has discovered the moments just after the Big Bang happened more like the theory predicts,... Read more»
We are pleased to announce that Holtec
International's engineers and
scientists have successfully modified the core
of the Company's SMR - 160 small modular reactor to increase the cycle life (operating period between successive refuelings) to nearly 4 years from 3-1/2 years previously achieved
using a conventional design.
The study culminates many years
of effort by an
international team
of scientists who have discovered a large number
of the satellite galaxies, developed new techniques to measure their distances, and have
used the Keck Observatory with colleagues to measure their radial velocities, or Doppler shifts (the speed
of the galaxy relative to the Sun).
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scientists found that the Brief
International Cognitive Assessment for Multiple Sclerosis (BICAMS) predicted performance
of activities
of daily living
using Actual Reality ™ (AR).