Sentences with phrase «science events of the year»

Here's a closer look at some of the top science events of the year.

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Science theories satisfy my fundamental answers, for me such event of unimaginably scale and precision such as the big bang that brought everything into existence 14.7 billions of years ago simply can not just happen, by chance, or without intent.

Look up «Psychological Projection» and then you'll get a hint at the total made - up absurdities that humans have created over thousands of years in order to understand something that is beyond understanding along with their minds over rationalizing events that in a time without the understandings of basic science, they used imagination to ease their fear based cognitive dissonance.

Well, if you believe 2000 year old speculation over modern, evidence based, repeatable, testable science, then how would you react as President if some tragic event occurs and evangelicals are telling you it's the end of days?

This year's edition of the annual event brought over 20,000 attendees from across the globe to the Sands Expo and Convention Center in Las Vegas to showcase the latest in ingredient technology and food science applications.

At last year's British Dairy Council's event «Dairy & Obesity: What the science says», Javier T. Gonzalez from the University of Bath presented some insightful points on the potential of dairy calcium to combat obesity.

We offer a wide range of 1 - 4 hour nature education programs, citizen science adventures, and training workshops as well as several larger public events each year.

For 160 years, the Chicago Academy of Sciences / Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum has worked to connect the citizens of Chicago to nature and science through immersive exhibits, family events and in - depth education programs.

Throughout the school year and during the summer, students practice science skills through the study of local habitats, learn about Massachusetts» native wildlife, work as a team to plan and execute stewardship projects that benefit their school and the larger Lowell community, and participate in community - based events.

This year's Festival of Social Science has over 130 creative and exciting events aimed at encouraging businesses, charities, government agencies; and schools or college students to discuss, discover and debate topical social science Science has over 130 creative and exciting events aimed at encouraging businesses, charities, government agencies; and schools or college students to discuss, discover and debate topical social science science issues.

The event is the first in a series to mark the anniversary year, which will include competitions for students and researchers and the annual Festival of Social Science in November.

The ESRC's Science in Society Programme that looks to explore the rapidly changing relations between science and the wider society is holding its final event, and will be discussing that science in society issues that have arisen over the past five years of the proScience in Society Programme that looks to explore the rapidly changing relations between science and the wider society is holding its final event, and will be discussing that science in society issues that have arisen over the past five years of the proscience and the wider society is holding its final event, and will be discussing that science in society issues that have arisen over the past five years of the proscience in society issues that have arisen over the past five years of the programme.

This free public event aims to discuss the progress that has been made along with a Question Time style debate and drinks reception at this years BA Festival of Science.

Chairman John Mills noted that while it took many years to get to today's ceremonial event, it will be worth it in the end to have a state - of - the - art 57,000 square foot building that focuses on science, technology, engineering and mathematics programs, which are the jobs that are in high demand today.

On his way to the first of six meetings on Capitol Hill as part of his inaugural participation in Climate Science Day events that bring scientists to Congress each year to offer lawmakers and their staff assistance and scientific resources relating to climate science, Kennedy ran into a crowd waiting to watch Day Two of federal Judge Neil Gorsuch's Supreme Court confirmation heScience Day events that bring scientists to Congress each year to offer lawmakers and their staff assistance and scientific resources relating to climate science, Kennedy ran into a crowd waiting to watch Day Two of federal Judge Neil Gorsuch's Supreme Court confirmation hescience, Kennedy ran into a crowd waiting to watch Day Two of federal Judge Neil Gorsuch's Supreme Court confirmation hearings.

In 2011, the National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Menczer, the director of IU's Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research, a 4 - year, $ 920,000 grant to study how so - called memes — ideas, issues, and events — are spread across the Internet.

This winter, Sachs got a rapid - response grant from the National Science Foundation to measure the effect on Galápagos lakes of the first strong El Niño event in 18 years.

With a time line of 41 events the science team at OSU has now calculated that the California — Oregon end of Cascadia's fault has a 37 percent chance of producing a major earthquake in the next 50 years.

At an event by The Christian Science Monitor that occurred before news of the Gore meeting yesterday, Bipartisan Policy Center President Jason Grumet said the biggest surprise over the next four years would be if Trump deferred to his daughter on the topic of climate.

I am suggesting, rather, that it would be a good thing if that event were to motivate some self - analysis within our community about whether we're paying as much attention as we should be to the psychological well - being of science trainees and early - career scientists, from the undergraduate years through the postdoc and beyond.

As Mauch and his team conclude today in Royal Society Open Science, rap is «the single most important event that has shaped the musical structure of the American charts over the past 50 years.»

«We expect the first heavy precipitation events with a clear global warming signal will appear during winters in Russia, Canada and northern Europe over the next 10 - 30 years,» said co-author Dr Ed Hawkins from the National Centre for Atmospheric Science at the University of Reading, UK.

In addition to our team of science journalists attending the yearly meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which publishes this blog, we're opening up our site this year to guest bloggers — the scientists and public attending thescience journalists attending the yearly meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which publishes this blog, we're opening up our site this year to guest bloggers — the scientists and public attending theScience, which publishes this blog, we're opening up our site this year to guest bloggers — the scientists and public attending the event.

A recent study of harmful algal blooms in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries by the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science show a marked increase in these ecosystem - disrupting events in the past 20 years that are being fed by excess nitrogen runoff from the watershed.

Just when it was all becoming a little too serious, light relief was offered by two events that marked the start of Science Year, a government initiative aimed at promoting science among teeScience Year, a government initiative aimed at promoting science among teescience among teenagers.

Elisabetta Pierazzo of the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona, and colleagues used a global climate model to study how water vapour and sea salt thrown up from an impact will affect ozone levels for years after the event.

The event on Kilauea was one of the first unambiguous records of a so - called silent earthquake, a type of massive earth movement unknown to science until just a few years ago.

Retrospective studies of the data collected a year, three years or even five years after a disaster could reveal where there are gaps in the science and how those can be filled in during future events.

«What they've done is identify the chain of events from seeding to precipitation on the ground, which has been sorely needed for the last 80 years,» says William Cotton, a former professor of atmospheric science at Colorado State University in Fort Collins who was not involved with the research.

In addition to those activities, this year's activities include hosting a journal club — in which cross-disciplinary teams present a company and its technology from both the science and business perspectives — a bioterrorism information event, developing a series of primers to introduce scientists to basic concepts in business and business students to basic concepts in science, and consulting projects to provide that elusive on - the - job experience.

A carbon threshold breached, commitments to brain science made, mystery neutrinos found and human evolution revised — these and other events highlight the year in science and technology as picked by the editors of Scientific American

NCAR, which is financed in part by the National Science Foundation, has spent several years searching for ways to extend the predicability of floods, droughts, heat waves and other extreme weather events from weeks to months as a way to give weather - sensitive sectors such as agriculture more time to protect themselves against costly losses.

The subtext: «We want to explain how to go abroad without being arrested,» quipped Ken - ichi Arai, dean of the University of Tokyo's Institute of Medical Science and a co-organizer of the event, which featured advice on a variety of topics from 10 Japanese scientists who have spent many years in North American laboratories.

Rather, it was where I have repeatedly seen her in recent years: at meetings concerning the welfare of science's coming generations — events a person of her august standing and advanced years certainly didn't have to attend.

In recent years, a brand of research called «climate attribution science» has sprouted from this question, examining the impact of extreme events to determine how much — often in fractional terms — is related to human - induced climate change, and how much to natural variability (whether in climate patterns such as the El Niño / La Niña - Southern Oscillation, sea - surface temperatures, changes in incoming solar radiation, or a host of other possible factors).

New data show that extreme weather events have become more frequent over the past 36 years, with a significant uptick in floods and other hydrological events compared even with five years ago, according to a new publication, «Extreme weather events in Europe: Preparing for climate change adaptation: an update on EASAC's 2013 study» by the European Academies» Science Advisory Council (EASAC), a body made up of 27 national science academies in the European Union, Norway, and SwitzScience Advisory Council (EASAC), a body made up of 27 national science academies in the European Union, Norway, and Switzscience academies in the European Union, Norway, and Switzerland.

«There is a lot of attention being focused on the science march but it isn't all anger out there,» says coral biologist Nancy Knowlton of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., a leader of the event, which was planned long before the science march materialized earlier this year.

Our reviewers sample some of the art - science events at this year's Edinburgh International Science Fescience events at this year's Edinburgh International Science FeScience Festival.

«Mystery of 8,500 - year - old copper - making event revealed through materials science.»

Published today in the Journal of Archaeological Science, the re-examination of a c. 8,500 - year - old by - product from metal smelting, or «slag», from the site of Çatalhöyük presents the conclusive reconstruction of events that led to the firing of a small handful of green copper minerals.

Kavli Prize Week is a biennial series of events and dialogues on science, including the Kavli Prize Ceremony at the Oslo Concert Hall — the signature event during Kavli Prize week held in honor of the year's Kavli Prize Laureates.

Study researcher Michael Petraglia, from Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, said that the early migrants were possibly a small group of foragers and that the later, major «out of Africa» event most likely happened about 60,000 years ago.

... The expanding role of natural science think tanks have due to two high profile events over the last few years:....

Over the last five years, the BAMS report has examined more than 100 events as part of a burgeoning sub-field of climate science that uses observations and climate models to show how human - caused warming has already affected the odds or severity of many of the weather extremes we experience now.

The inaugural forum will launch the Kavli Prize Science Forum itself, to be held every two years in conjunction with the Kavli Prize Ceremony and Symposia — an international event that brings together scientists in celebration of the most recent Kavli Prize Laureates.

A biennial series of events and dialogues celebrating science, including the Kavli Prize Ceremony, which honors the year's Kavli Prize Laureates in Astrophysics, Nanoscience and Neuroscience.

Our annual review of the greatest events and accomplishments over the last year features analysis and commentary by Bill Nye the Science Guy, Emily Lakdawalla, Jason Davis, Casey Dreier and Bruce Betts, along with a special new year's gift of Neil deGrasse Tyson.

The festival is the final event of a two - year - long programme of events that has taken place in virtually every European country and from which delegates have been selected for their outstanding projects promoting science.

They are seeking 200 people to take part in the event, which will be part of this year's Edinburgh International Science Festival in April.