Sentences with phrase «of the leading scientists making»

He is one of the leading scientists making breakthroughs in this fast moving field.»

Not exact matches

The advances that scientists are now making with artificial intelligence lead many to suggest — and fear — that we may be on the verge of creating artificial intelligences smarter than we are.

GFI's innovation department has two primary areas of focus — firstly, encouraging scientists and entrepreneurs to join the plant - based and cultured meat industries, and secondly, supporting the ongoing success of existing companies in the industry.26 They have assembled a list of potential companies based on what they believe are promising ideas that have not been capitalized on, 27 and they have developed a list of more than 220 entrepreneurs and scientists, many of whom take part in monthly video calls led by GFI.28 In the last year, they have had some success in assisting in the founding of a plant - based meat company in India, Good Dot, and a plant - based fish company in the U.S., SeaCo.29 The companies have both raised millions in venture capital and are making progress towards competition with animal products.30 Although venture capitalist funding is a good indication that the companies themselves will be successful, and while the companies might not exist without GFI, it is unclear what portion of the responsibility for the companies» outcomes should be attributed to GFI.

«A full reading of Bernstein's email reveals an important point ---- his assertion that, in the 1980s, we never denied the possible role of human activity as a cause for climate change, and he further makes clear that, at that point in time, there was a great deal of uncertainty and lack of understanding of climate change, even among leading scientists and experts,» said Keil, adding that today, Exxon «believes the risk of climate change is clear, and warrants action.»

Does the acceptance of the Big Bang theory and evolutionary theory by many leading scientist make these true?

Apr. 4, 2013 — A structural biologist at the Florida State University College of Medicine has made discoveries that could lead scientists a step closer to understanding how life first emerged on Earth billions of years ago.

«This will make saline - stricken rice farms in coastal areas usable to farmers,» said lead scientist Dr. Kshirod Jena of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).

Localised teams made up of a range of experts including scientists from some of Australia's leading regional universities and research institutions will undertake each of the seven projects.

The conversational style and clear explanations in Your Baby's Microbiome by some of the world's leading scientists and maternity care providers make this new and complex information accessible and inspiring to the general public.

Last month Johnson said he had been told by Porton Down that the nerve agent used in the Salisbury poisoning case could only have come from Russia, but the lead scientist at the defence research laboratory later said this was not the sort of finding the organisation could make.

Releasing the «personal documents, correspondence, drafts and discussions whose confidentiality is traditionally recognized by the scientific community as essential to encourage the honest and productive exchange and refinement of ideas leading to new scientific insights and improved experimental designs,» according to the brief, would damage the ability of university scientists to exchange ideas freely and make it more difficult for the university to hire top scientists particularly since private universities are not subject to such disclosures.

But the rote memorization of facts, formulas or rules that can lead to high scores on such tests do not a good 21st century scientist or engineer make, notes Alan Friedman, a member of an independent, bipartisan board established by Congress to set policy for NAEP.

In a recent experiment performed at the Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory at RIKEN, an international collaboration with scientists from eleven countries, led by scientists of the Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, CSIC (Spain) and the RIKEN Nishina Center (Japan), made a very surprising observation: High - energy gamma rays — which are mediated by the electromagnetic force — are emitted in the decay of a certain excited nucleus — tin 133, in competition with neutron emission, the decay mode mediated by the strong nuclear force.

Likewise, idolatry of that shiny Nobel medal can lead scientists to make bad decisions, especially because the first group to announce big results will usually garner the glory.

Because, in the end, the underrepresentation of women in science can not be solved only by networking and events, and just because there is outrage when leading scientists make publicly sexist statements doesn't mean that it is going away.

In a typical investigation, the RIO - led committee — made up mostly of faculty with relevant expertise — reconstructs the research behind a scientific result from its documentation (which may be sparse, cryptic, or fabricated)-- so the RIO job requires deep insight into how scientists work.

Understanding if there are tectonics on the moon gives scientists «clues we can play with to make models of the inside,» says Steve Wall, Cassini Radar deputy team lead.

According to Dr. Andrew Bowling, lead author of the paper and a research scientist at Dow Agrosciences, detected mRNA molecules appear as individual spots within the cell, making the expression results very easy to interpret.

In 2008, TRIUMF recruited her to lead its accelerator program, making her one of the most senior scientists in Canada.

In order to determine its origin, Italian scientists took a tiny sample from the blade and compared the proportion of lead isotope — a kind of «finger print» of the ore deposits which remains unchanged in any objects subsequently made from the ore — with the corresponding data from numerous mineral deposits in Europe and the entire Mediterranean region.

«I also hope that this paper and video encourage more scientists to take an artistic approach when they start a new project, not necessarily to create a narrative - based story, but to explore their idea the way an artist explores a canvas, because that makes the mind open to a different form of serendipity that can lead to unexpected results.»

Any of the various contacts with peers, professors, leading scientists, and businesspeople that I have made; the experience of working with the media; the practise in logistics, time management, and planning ahead; and the leadership abilities and extra social skills that I have developed might be of critical advantage in my future career.

Since about the same percentage of all US citizens say they do believe in a personal god, it makes one wonder what, if not their science, leads the elite of US scientists to differ so dramatically from the general population.

A team of scientists led by Dr. Martin Zeppenfeld from the Quantum Dynamics Division of Prof. Gerhard Rempe at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching has now made a virtue of necessity: the so - called optoelectrical Sisyphus technique, developed in the group, exploits the polarity of formaldehyde molecules, while reaching temperatures as low as 420 micro-Kelvin.

Just as the finding that tea made from willow bark could alleviate headaches led scientists to the discovery of salicylic acid — which in turn led to the invention of aspirin — many acupuncture researchers think that their work might lead to a treatment for pain that is more effective than acupuncture.

Throughout her young career, Emiliani has made a series of tough decisions and changes of course that, although they may have delayed her maturity as a fully independent scientist, have also kept her viable for the kind of work she wants to do, and the kind of life she intends to lead.

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, made up of leading climate scientists, sea levels have risen some 3.1 millimeters per year since 1993.

A group led by Byung Hee Hong of Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea made high - quality films that the scientists stamped onto a clear, bendable polymer.

In a pair of papers published this month in Nature Communications and Physical Review Letters (PRL), a team of scientists led by Gerbrand Ceder has come up with a set of rules for making new disordered materials, a process that had previously been driven by trial - and - error.

PCAST is an advisory group of the nation's leading scientists and engineers who directly advise the President and make policy recommendations.

This fall researchers at the Georgia Museum of Natural History at the University of Georgia will lead an effort to digitize around 2.1 million specimens from the order Lepidoptera — moths and butterflies — and to make that data available to scientists studying climate, natural habitats and agricultural pests.

«Manufactured diamonds have a number of physical properties that make them very interesting to researchers working with transistors,» said Yasuo Koide, a professor and senior scientist at the National Institute for Materials Science leading the research group.

If we as scientists can't tell a story that leads back to how something will make people's lives better, we won't be effective communicators,» said Arthur Lupia, the Hal R. Varian Collegiate Professor of Political Science at University of Michigan, who is on the LLI advisory board.

«Global collaboration among scientists, which was really made possible by ALS Ice Bucket Challenge donations, led to this important discovery,» said John Landers of the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

«Factual, science - based information can provide guidance to cannabis users to make choices that reduce both immediate and long - term risks to their health,» says Dr. Benedikt Fischer, Senior Scientist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), who led the development of the guidelines.

«You don't necessarily have to have a «dirtier» snowpack to make it dark,» said lead author Marco Tedesco, a research professor at Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory and adjunct scientist at NASA Goddard Institute of Space Studies.

The scientists hypothesize that this process occurs iteratively throughout infection to lead to the ability to make antibodies that can neutralize a wide spectrum of HIV strains.

A team of computer scientists led by Wim Sweldens at Lucent Technologies and Peter Schröder at the California Institute of Technology developed a compression algorithm that makes it practical to send 3 - D images over the Internet and to work with them on personal computers and handhelds.

To disperse the aluminum compound and make the metal less brittle, researchers led by materials scientist Hansoo Kim of Pohang University of Science and Technology in South Korea added nickel, which caused the aluminum compound to permeate the metal in nanometer - sized clusters instead of long bands.

The study, published in the current issue of the journal Nature Communications, could enable scientists to use the enzyme in a plant to make large amounts of fuel - grade oil, according to Dr. Tim Devarenne, AgriLife Research biochemist in College Station and lead scientist on the team.

As the lead computational scientist on the paper, Dr John Marioni at EMBL - EBI, said: «Making sense of the data generated in studies like this is only possible thanks to ongoing advances in computational biology.

However, scientists have begun to manipulate the interactions of light and matter to tune the index of refraction in weird ways, such as making it negative, which leads to an unusual bending of light.

The winners were selected by Discover's editors and a panel of eminent advisors, based on nominations made by leading scientists in a wide range of fields, as well as by other readers of the magazine.

In doing so, the scientists made a surprising observation: «One and the same active ingredient caused most of the tumor facets to die,» reports lead author Roman Reinartz of Professor Scheffler's Team.

From the leading scientists at Bologna, Cassini learned the importance of using high - quality instruments to make the most precise measurements possible.

In France, in particular, postdocs and freshly recruited scientists are members of large research units led by a single director, and it is often difficult for them to make their mark as independent group leaders.

The scientists do not yet know how this abnormality leads to the type of major depression that makes someone suicidal, but «anything that disturbs that system would be predicted to have some sort of important outcome,» Poulter says.

A team of scientists led by Gloria Dubner of the Institute of Astronomy and Physics (IAFE), the National Council of Scientific Research (CONICET), and the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina then made a thorough analysis of the newly revealed details in a quest to gain new insights into the complex physics of the object.

«It could lead to the worse type of grandstanding,» he told ScienceInsider, «with scientists making their case in public for why NSF should have funded their research.

Now, Wyss Institute researchers led by Church have developed a new suite of such sensors, reported in Nucleic Acids Research journal, that not only increase the number of cellular «switches and levers» that scientists can use for complex genetic re-programming, but also respond to valuable products such as renewable plastics or costly pharmaceuticals and give microbes a voice to report on their own efficiency in making these products.