Sentences with phrase «powerful new tool»

For all their complexity and variation, turnaround districts have two things in common: One, they give impatient state policymakers a potentially powerful new tool for dealing with perennial school dysfunction.

Luckily, the team will have powerful new tools at their disposal.

Now, one piece of the agency has found a potentially powerful new tool to flatten the spikes and cut the number of proposals: It can simply eliminate deadlines.

«I'm delighted but not surprised that he is the one who is going to make sense of the strange new world that singles have to navigate today, one with powerful new tools for connection, which are also hideous new sources of shame, anxiety and obsession,» says Moyers.

IBM's DB2 database adds several powerful new tools in version 9 including native XML support and DB2 Developer Workbench, and offers serious competition to Oracle and Microsoft.

With the advent of powerful new tools like femtosecond (10 - 15 second) lasers and nanoscale - precision positioning, life's quantum dance is finally coming into view.

He then began applying his expertise in microwaves to spectroscopy, which he foresaw as providing powerful new tools for probing the structure of atoms and molecules and for controlling light.

Widely hailed as a «breakthrough» in HIV prevention by public health officials, the studies — one of which dropped its placebo arm today because of the convincing effects of the intervention — add powerful new tools to derail transmission of the virus in the population that accounts for most of the 34 million infections in the world.

«Reprogramming patients» cells offers powerful new tool for studying, treating blood diseases.»

While these trials have used the method in isolation, for experimental clarity, such methods should not be seen as «magic bullets,» rather as powerful new tools to be combined with the best of current methods in an integrated pest management program.

To address that, we borrowed a lot of ideas from other fields and people to create powerful new tools to investigate, not which parts of the brain are activated when we interpret spoken sounds, but how those areas interact.»

Discover how today's Google Wallet history update brings powerful new tools for reviewing past transactions.

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The flood of data can overwhelm human insight and analysis, but the computing advances that helped deliver it have also conjured powerful new tools for making sense of it all.

There is an incredibly powerful new tool for genome editing called CRISPR Cas 9 that can indeed swap synthetic mammoth genes into an elephant genome, and this has been done by George Church and his team at Harvard.

Powerful new tools let audio professionals create, mix, master, and edit high - quality Dolby Atmos content for Blu - ray, digital delivery, gaming, and virtual reality.

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«You're going to have a very powerful new tool on your hands,» Du Rose says.

Recapping where we stand heading into the season would be exhausting, but suffice to say Louisiana's new governor (the always - welcome Arliss Howard) has declared what amounts to war on the vampire population, with powerful new tools at his disposal.

Both are powerful new tools in education.

These days a number of powerful new tools can scrutinize the inner zombies in healthy brains.

Luke Alphey (The Pirbright Institute, United Kingdom) reviewed genetics - based methods that have the potential to provide powerful new tools for the control of invasive species.

Sequencing of the canine genome allowed scientists to create powerful new tools (e.g., SNP arrays) to investigate inherited diseases.

«In recent years, [NSF] has struggled with the logistics of evaluating a rising number of grant proposals that has propelled funding rates to historic lows,» but «one piece of the agency has found a potentially powerful new tool to flatten [submission] spikes and cut the number of proposals: It can simply eliminate deadlines,» Eric Hand reported last Friday.

Meanwhile, even as alternatives to whale oil were developed, so too were powerful new tools for whaling: the exploding harpoon gun that could be used to kill the blue whale and other large, fast - swimming whales, and the factory ships that could render whales into oil and meat on an industrial scale.

As Facebook has grown, people everywhere have gotten a powerful new tool to stay connected to the people they love, make their voices heard, and build communities and businesses.

Small businesses working with ESPs will be able to take advantage of all the powerful new tools and resources that the future holds.

Aggregating social media reviews — the wisdom of crowds — has turned into a powerful new tool for consumers, helping them to find trusted services quickly and efficiently.

Now, we have a powerful new tool that will help governments and businesses save money, protect resources and ensure more people get the food they need.»

The Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) is a powerful new tool that allows high poverty schools and school divisions to offer breakfast and lunch to all students at no charge.

Mass Audubon's commitment to this innovative digital resource spans the organization's departments, from Ecological Management and Land Conservation to our «Shaping the Future of Your Community» program, which will be conducting a series of MAPPR workshops to help communities use this powerful new tool to identify which parcels are most important to protect, while guiding development to less sensitive locations.

MCR could transform entire populations of sexually reproducing species within months, making it a powerful new tool for research.

Researchers at the University of Waterloo have published results of a powerful new tool that could give ecologists new ways of tackling problems posed by deadly invasive species like Asian carp and Zebra mussels.

Partisans like Robert Desimone, director of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, believe «there hasn't been a better time to go into neuroscience,» owing to the powerful new tools at a researcher's disposal.

This technology, they say, offers a powerful new tool to observe and quantify melting at the base of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, the collapse of which may help drive a worldwide increase in sea levels of more than 3 meters.

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA — Even when they're underground, nuclear tests can be detected in the skies — and as a result, global satellite networks could become a powerful new tool in the arsenal of weapons to help detect clandestine underground nuclear explosions, a team of scientists reported here today at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

A year earlier, bipartisan support from Congress had given the new administration what seemed to be a powerful new tool to do it, a law calling for «advanced biofuels.»

It is the dazzling star of the biotech world: a powerful new tool that can deftly and precisely alter the structure of DNA.

Reactive media adds a powerful new tool.

Both teams of scientists used, «a powerful new tool for Earth scientists,» says Dylan Rood, a scientist at Imperial College London and a co-author on the Bierman - led study: isotopes within grains of quartz, produced when bedrock is bombarded by cosmic rays from space.

CRISPR - Cas9 is a powerful new tool for editing the genome.

Yesterday's inauguration of the first element of an international telescope array in Namibia provides astronomers with the most sensitive high - energy gamma ray observatory ever — a powerful new tool for studying the most violent processes in the universe.

Coauthor of the study, Viktor Struzhkin at the Carnegie Institution for Science, explained: «Our technique offers a powerful new tool for analyzing and manipulating electrons to advance our understanding of high - pressure superconductivity, as well as magnetic and electrical properties.»

The ability to create new forms of matter by simply tuning a magnetic field presents a powerful new tool to study basic physics, she says.

Weissbrod says archaeological evidence of competition between domesticated and wild species could be a powerful new tool to identify when other cultures around the world began settling down.

«We have provided biologists with a powerful new tool to experiment with and learn how genomes function,» says Waterston.

Scientists hail the technique as a powerful new tool that can gauge how dark energy opposes gravity.

The findings could be a powerful new tool for crime - solving.

Pompeii's electronic guide: After 250 years of excavation, archaeologists working at Pompeii have discovered a powerful new tool.

It also hints at a powerful new tool with which to test general relativity.