Sentences with phrase «of international scientists who»

THERE is a new forecast from a panel of international scientists who study the sun.
Frigid weather like the two - week cold spell that began around Christmas is 15 times rarer than it was a century ago, according to a team of international scientists who does real - time analyses to see if extreme weather events are natural or more likely to happen because of climate change.
He is the founder of New Harvest, a loosely knit consortium of international scientists who are investigating an innovative new way of satisfying the world's craving for meat.

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«All of the harmful effects on the environment and on health needs to be priced into food products,» said Hajer, who is a member of U.N.'s International Resource Panel, which comprises 34 top scientists and 30 governments.
According to the The International Federation of Biologists, there are more than 3 million biolgical scientists globally who rely on the 5 laws of Darwinian evolution for their jobs every single day.
The American Dairy Science Association is an international organization of educators, scientists and industrialists who are committed to advancing the dairy industry.
Both William Olaf Stapledon, early twentieth century philosopher and science fiction author, and Professor Sir David Weatherall, distinguished medical scientist, have strong ties to Liverpool; and Birmingham has historically been home to a wide range of humanist thinkers like John Baskerville, nineteenth century avowed atheist and renown printer, Harold Blackham, first director of the BHA; George Holyoake, nineteenth century writer who coined the term «secularism», sex education pioneer Martin Cole, leading international humanist and philosopher - physicist Sir Harry Stopes - Roe; and writer and comedian Natalie Haynes.
Transparent frog among 30 new species discovered in coastal rainforests of western Ecuador: «The team of scientists, who work for Reptile and Amphibian Ecology International, also identified four new species o... Read
When Goswami worked at Amnesty International USA, he partnered with DataKind, who convened a group of data scientists to analyze a 30 - year archive of Urgent Action bulletins that contained information about prisoners of conscience, detainees, and other individuals whose human rights were being threatened.
But money is only part of what makes a EURYI award useful, says Brian O'Neill, a climate scientist at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria, who was one of the first EURYI winners 3 years ago.
In 2006, 20 years after reactor number 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was encased in cement, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Atomic Energy Agency released a report compiled by a panel of 100 scientists on the long - term health effects of the level 7 nuclear disaster and future risks for those exposed.
National Institutes of Health / NIH - Fogarty International Center International Research Scientist Development Awards The International Research Scientist Development Award (IRSDA) is offered by the Fogarty International Center (FIC) for U.S. postdoctoral biomedical scientists, in the formative stages of their careers, who seek an opportunity to continue research in, or extend their research experience into, developing countries.
«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.
«We applaud this latest achievement of our many Penn State scientists and students who have helped to build and are helping to develop this innovative new technology and its system of international collaboration among many research teams worldwide,» said Nicholas P. Jones, Penn State's Executive Vice President and Provost.
Who We Are As Scientists 6 October 2006 Spurred by the stem - cell scandal, a group of Korean early - career scientists organized an international conference on ethical issues iScientists 6 October 2006 Spurred by the stem - cell scandal, a group of Korean early - career scientists organized an international conference on ethical issues iscientists organized an international conference on ethical issues in science.
He agrees with other scientists who think that the U.S. must begin a series of talks with the European Commission and the European Space Agency as well as with counterparts in India, China and Japan to find a way to develop an international climate observing system.
Both Brazilian sugarcane farmers who turn excess to ethanol and Chinese city dwellers who enjoy hot tea thanks to solar water heaters don't realize it but they are at the forefront of what an international panel of scientists hopes the future will look like.
An ancient species of pint - sized humans discovered in the tropics of Indonesia may have met their demise earlier than once believed, according to an international team of scientists who reinvestigated the original finding.
Efforts to test prospects for Internet voting have failed miserably thus far, asserts Jeremy Epstein, a senior computer scientist at SRI International who has researched voting technology, citing in particular the Internet - based system that the Washington, D.C., Board of Elections and Ethics tried to set up in 2010.
Judy King, director of human resources at the International Life Sciences Institute, says she needs «people - people» — a trait often lacking in scientists who prefer working in a laboratory.
An international team of researchers including scientists from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena now analyzed for the first time, the genomes of the first settlers who lived on the island chains Tonga and Vanuatu 3100 - 2500 years ago.
As in all Next Wave features, you will find at this resources page valuable links to international organizations, funding bodies, research institutions, and databases that may be helpful for those of you who are marine scientists or are about to enter this exciting field.
Yet Sheldrake was a serious scientist who could not be dismissed out of hand: he was a research fellow at Cambridge with an international reputation as a botanist.
Seoul — Progress in finding vaccines against the leading killers in the developing world will require greater attention to the needs of those countries, says a group of scientists who are helping to launch the International Vaccine Institute in Seoul
At the moment, a survey of 300 Arctic scientists revealed, many researchers who participate in international research collaborations «do so as a volunteer activity,» Pfirman said.
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.
International career mobility is not as efficient as it should be, especially in the case of the increasing number of interdisciplinary scientists who are embedded in a team science setting.
That's the message one researcher has for the planet's physicians, the climate scientists who are diagnosing whether a new international agreement can keep us from busting the boundary of dangerous global warming.
In June, the Polish government announced a new grant for young scientists who earned high scores in an international funding competition; Dobrzyn is one of only 10 scientists who qualify.
In 2014, the international collaboration of scientists known as the Pale Red Dot — named in homage to Carl Sagan, who described Earth as a Pale Blue Dot — banded together after astronomers noticed the periodic signal of a possible planet coming from the star every 11.2 days.
I'm immensely proud of British scientists, who really are among the world's best, as demonstrated by the strong showing in the recent international space life sciences competition,» U.K. Space Agency CEO David Parker said in a statement.
The AAAS Annual Meeting brings together more than 10,000 of the world's most talented and diverse scientists — yet this year select international participants who have made valuable contributions to the scientific community may not attend, due to ongoing uncertainty about the recent immigration and visa order implemented in the United States.
Gathering all this mass in under 690 million years is an enormous challenge for theories of supermassive black hole growth, explains Eduardo Bañados, an astronomer at the Carnegie Institution for Science who led the international team of scientists.
«In extreme cases, if the dose is too high radiation can modify the cellular structure and generate alteration in the cells of organs found near the tumor, this causes them to lose their functions,» said Massillon, who was honored for her research with the IUPAP Young Scientist Prize 2015 awarded by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics.
That is how he became more famous for deciphering the human genome than the international army of scientists who shared the achievement, how he hopes to understand every microbe in the ocean (through his Global Ocean Sampling Expedition), and how he plans to create artificial life.
And without strong new protections, «there [are] a substantial number of mammals that are likely to disappear,» adds John Fa, a conservation scientist at Manchester Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom who also works with Indonesia's Center for International Forestry Research but was not involved with the study.
The international team of scientists who studied the skeleton of Archicebus was led by Dr. Xijun Ni of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing.
A young scientist who sits on a search committee at Georgia Tech wrote: «Grants are not required, but it's very helpful to show some sort of grant - writing skills via national or international postdoctoral fellowships, or funding from private / industrial sources.
Drawing upon his old connections at Cambridge and beyond, Clark is one of a cadre of European scientists who've been fostering international research collaborations on the biology of aging.
International bodies like the WHO / TDR and UNESCO who preferentially support research projects in developing countries are also a good source of funding for ambitious Indian scientisWHO / TDR and UNESCO who preferentially support research projects in developing countries are also a good source of funding for ambitious Indian scientiswho preferentially support research projects in developing countries are also a good source of funding for ambitious Indian scientists.
«Many colleagues — even some on our research team — doubted whether the study was possible, until we actually did it,» says Merav Ben - David, the UW professor who developed the research plan along with Professor Hank Harlow, an eco-physiologist and colleague in the Department of Zoology and Physiology, and Steve Amstrup, previously with the USGS and currently the chief scientist at Polar Bears International.
At the least, an international debate should occur, says Keim, who believes that in the meantime, scientists should neither publish the results of H5N1 transmissibility studies nor present them at meetings.
Almost as many of the new hires were physicists who had earned their Ph.D. s abroad, most of whom were mid-career scientists who had already garnered a strong international reputation for their work.
One nice feature of the international postdoc program is that it allows a «reentry» period for scientists who wish to do most of their postdoc abroad, but recognize the potential disadvantages of being overseas while job hunting.
Over the years its membership roster has read like a who's who of 20th - century scientists (including Max Planck, Niels Bohr, and Erwin Schrödinger, to name a few), and it currently boasts more than 80 international academicians, many of them Nobel laureates and not all of them Catholic — including the playfully irreligious physicist Stephen Hawking.
Ruff, who was in Paris last week as part of a last - ditch attempt by members of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War to stop the tests, says that 60 underground tests have been carried out by the French since the 1983 scientific visit and that in 1987 scientists found caesium - 137 on Mururoa.
That target has been «applauded by the international community given China's emissions have been growing at rates of 5 % to 8 % over the past decade and a half,» says Canadell, who is also executive director of the Global Carbon Project, an international consortium of scientists studying the global carbon cycle.
And the «incredibly beautiful setting of the centre will be helpful in attracting international scientists at all levels who are interested in doing good science but also want a stimulating environment.»
Four young men who have been paralyzed for years achieved groundbreaking progress — moving their legs — as a result of epidural electrical stimulation of the spinal cord, an international team of life scientists at the University of Louisville, UCLA and the Pavlov Institute of Physiology reported today in the medical journal Brain.
And he is in no doubt about wanting to build a truly international centre in Madrid: «The long - term aim is to attract scientists, whether Spanish nationals or foreigners... who will build the CNIC into one of the best centres of reference in cardiovascular research at an international level.»
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