Sentences with phrase «places than scientists»

The discovery of a novel high - density mineral means that Earth's mantle is a more restless place than scientists suspected — and offers new clues to the planet's history

Pluto is a weirder place than scientists had ever imagined.

Not exact matches

«Chernobyl is a more lively place than you might imagine: Nowadays it is repopulated with 500 people, many of them scientists,» wrote Suess after his trip in March 2009.

We must then allow a place in our picture of the universe for categories not reducible to those of science, and must preserve a role among the functions of the mind for other methods than those of the scientist.

Perri Klass MD, highlights the impact of daytime sleep for young children in her NYT article, «A Child's Nap Is More Complicated Than It Looks» — «Dr. Monique LeBourgeois, a sleep scientist at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and her colleagues recently conducted the first study on how napping affects the cortisol awakening response, a burst of hormone secretion known to take place... Read More

In a recent book by Dr. Peter Cook (Mothering Denied) describes better than most others the difficulties that Dr. Jay Belsky has had convincing his fellow scientists that social ideology is passing for, if not dictating, scientific interpretations of studies on this issue (as is true for the bedsharing debate), in favor of dismissing the serious concerns and negative developmental correlates of infants and children being placed for long hours, early in their lives, in daycare centers.

The discussion focused on the Ph.D. career crisis more as a structural issue of «overproduction» than as a calamity for tens of thousands of talented and dedicated aspiring scientists who have invested crucial years of their lives in the hope of taking their place among those advancing the nation's scientific enterprise.

The program encourages them to return to a place other than their Ph.D. institution, because «the foundation is also trying to be sure that those young scientists who are returning... are free to work and free to collaborate,» something that the remaining hierarchy in Polish academia doesn't always allow, Żylicz says.

This year's event, which took place in Texas in February in conjunction with the AAAS Annual Meeting in Austin, brought 32 scientists into middle and high school classrooms across Austin, Dallas and Houston reaching more than 5,000 students — a significant jump from the 20 scientists who participated in Boston in 2017.

«I began to know how scientists can apply their knowledge in a place other than in a lab,» he says.

I resent the fact that scientists need to bow and scrape for funding in the first place, but even more than that, I hate seeking the balance of cherry - picked data, baseless boasts, and exaggerations of real - world applications that funding sources seem to require.

The company, which employs more than 100 postdocs, places a premium on basic (as well as translational) research, encouraging its scientists to publish in top journals.

Ancient Mars may have been a friendlier place for life than scientists once suspected.

Plus, scientists don't know whether the small intestine is a safer place to process fructose than the liver, Rabinowitz says.

In place of turbochargers and high - octane gas, the scientists tweaked their engine design and used an additive to speed the oxidation of hydrogen peroxide into fuel to create nanomachines 350 times more powerful than any previously built.

According to some climate scientists, the cold in places like Florida actually could be a sign of warming, rather than an argument against the phenomenon.

Background More than 2,200 years ago, a scientist named Archimedes sat down in his bath and figured out that when an object is placed in water, water moves out of the way — it gets displaced.

«We're realizing that the early moon was a much more dynamic place than we thought,» says Jeffrey Andrews - Hanna, a planetary scientist at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden and lead author of a new study of the Procellarum's geology.

The new technology promises to allow scientists, medical professionals and technologists to for the first time place particles smaller than 100 nanometers precisely where they are needed.

In their research, the UFZ scientists were also able to show that much greater gene transfer takes place between bacteria on the fungal highway than in a moist environment without fungal hyphae.

Not until last July didCassini fly over and scan Titan's arctic region — a place especiallyintriguing to scientists because it is colder than the equator andtherefore is a region where methane is more likely to condense and raindown to the ground.

With further experimental analysis, the scientists identified two distinct genetic variants that resulted in these sensitivity differences, suggesting that in crowded places, wild C. elegans populations with a specific genetic variation adopt different behaviors than those who don't.

The split between basic and applied research proved real, as did the significantly higher earnings of industrial scientists, who, the survey shows, generally place a greater value on income than academics do.

Scientists at the University of Leicester placed infected sticklebacks into a tank of water at 68 degrees Fahrenheit — about 9 degrees warmer than a typical summer's day in Britain — and found the tapeworms to grow four times faster than normal.

What is emerging from the research is that Antarctica is a far more dynamic place than anyone could have imagined a century ago — and that what happens there can have dramatic consequences for millions of people around the world.Now, instead of mapping new geographical discoveries, scientists are seeking to map the inner workings of the strange forces at play in Antarctica, from the biological mechanisms that allow tiny organisms to seemingly awake from the dead, to the little - understood forces that are gnawing away at the continent's ice — with increasing vigor.

An international team of scientists has presented two studies that suggest the divergence point between chimpanzees and humans took place in the Eastern Mediterranean rather than East Africa.

For years, scientists have wondered if certain surface features are the result of plate tectonics, which, if true, would make Europa the only known place in the Solar System other than Earth to experience large, subduction - driven quakes.

Due to the nature of their work, climate scientists know more than the rest of us — but even they don't always agree about the ways in which climate change will affect weather in specific places.

With distinguished invited speakers and an audience of more than 200 scientists, the conference reviewed the revolutionary changes that have taken place in human genetics during the last two decades and highlighted deCODE's contributions during the period.

Sure it's no oasis, but there's more water up there than scientists previously thought, and it was probably a far wetter and more active place in the distant past.

For more than 50 years, scientists have found extremophiles in places where life wasn't thought to be possible.

Cassini took nearly a half - million images during its mission, which included more than 13 years in orbit around Saturn, a tour that repeatedly took the probe by the moons Titan and Enceladus, two places scientists are eager to send another spacecraft in the search for microbial life.

Materials scientist Dongsheng Li will use sophisticated microscopes to take a close look at how nanocrystals less than one - thousandth the width of a human hair assemble into branched structures while the process is taking place.

By examining the cooling rate of rocks that formed more than 10 miles beneath the Earth's surface, scientists led by The University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences have found that water probably penetrates deep into the crust and upper mantle at mid-ocean spreading zones, the places where new crust is made.

[64, 65] Although scientists do not understand how it works, several studies have shown that acupuncture treats chronic pain more effectively than no treatment or «sham» acupuncture treatments (placing needles on non-meridian points).

It's the second - wealthiest state by per capita income, the 11th most populous, the most densely populated, second in solar power installations, has an annual record of $ 43.4 billion in tourism revenue, and has more scientists and engineers per square mile than any other place in the world.

Due to a mad scientist by the name of Athetos, the Sundran civilisation was wiped out and while they might not be around anymore, Athetos still is and Elsenova requires Trace's help to stop him, only with this game being Axiom Verge, aka weirder than weird, the plot goes downright insane, as Trace and Athetos, are the same person, only Athetos (Greek for «without place») is the original Trace who first arrived on Sundra, whereas the playable Trace is a clone.

People usually bemoan the lack of a strong human element in big blockbusters like this, but while «Godzilla» aims to remedy that by placing the focus more on them than the giant monsters doing battle, the characters are so bland and thinly written (with the exception of Bryan Cranston's scientist, who has a smaller role than is hinted at in the trailers) that it only makes things worse.

Most monster movies have at least one bleeding - heart environmentalist to argue the case of the monstrous beast, but here we get only Niko Tatopoulos (Matthew Broderick), an expert on the mutant earthworms of Chernobyl, who seems less like a scientist than like a place - holder waiting for a rewrite («insert more interesting character here»).

; Captain, a disheveled homeless vet with a penchant for Twinkies; Abe, the richer - than - rich research scientist who hires Mace; and Mona, a vengeful U.S. attorney with friends in high places.

(10/10/2011) Europe's biofuel push could exacerbate climate change unless policies are in place to accounts for emissions from indirect land use change, warns a letter signed by more than 100 scientists and economists.

There appears to be plenty of evidence for some places being warmer than today in the MWP, and whilst most studies say that globally it wasn't warmer it seems that scientists still want more data to be sure (and if it was warmer, that might suggest higher climate sensitivity).

Rather than establish that any kind of deliberate corrupting activity took place, it instead ends up pointing a huge finger back to the origins of the smear of skeptic climate scientists.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Detailed new research into when global warming will start to have a serious effect on local climates has produced the shock finding that it could happen much sooner than scientists have previously predicted London, 9 October — Catastrophic climate change may begin sooner than anyone expected --- and the first place to feel the heat could be a small but important city in Indonesia.

Here, rather than having a written - out guest post, Dr Soon suggested I could place two videos featuring him, followed by a specific comment question he wants to pose to his accusers, along with a statement from a fellow skeptic scientist, Dr Richard Lindzen.

There is sufficient work identifying the possibility of those anomalies being warmer than present day that, at the very least, scientists who want to be taken seriously can try to understand why those warming events took place.

Personally, I think the action is going to be elsewhere than waiting on the latest scientific prognostications which are all over the place anyway given a) the complexity of climate science (and I think Mike Hulme's characterisation of climate science as a wicked problem v tame problems like acid rain is correct) and b) the sheer number of departments / organisations, programmes, $ $ $ and scientists working on its characterisation.

Curry says the private sector is a better place for scientists to work rather than the «politicized field» at universities and in government.

So I'm inclined to place the blame on the media rather than on scientists.

Ice Ages in the past appear to have taken place at much higher CO2 levels than we currently enjoy, however some scientists believe that with > 400 ppm a glaciation shouldn't take place, while others don't think so.